#172: Sarah Styles (Office for Women in Sport & Recreation) - How to accelerate gender equality in sport

May 2, 2022

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Hello friends!

Sarah Styles’ first remit in sport was to make her role redundant. You read that right. To get Australian Cricket to the point where they no longer needed ‘female’ specific positions, and equality was engrained in the sport.

As Head of Female Engagement at Cricket Australia, she created generational change for gender equality, leading to results such as 87,000 people packing out the MCG for the Women’s T20 World Cup Final.

Now, she’s thriving with the Victorian Government as the Director for the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation!

In this episode, learn how Sarah grew her career from investment banking to sport, and made a MASSIVE difference in the process.

We cover:

Career growth, vision and principles
Transitioning skills from Investment Banking to Sport
Changing the trajectory of cricket for females
Stakeholder management 101
Impact of her role in government
Government grants for females in sport
What Sarah is most proud of

P.s. - This episode was first released in June 2021

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