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Baroness Sue Campbell delivers guest lecture
Baroness Sue Campbell CBE - who in February was named one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK by Radio 4's Woman's Hour -spoke on 'Creating a winning culture - how important is the environment to nurture success, particularly for women?' at the Lewis Jones Suite at Headingley Carnegie Stadium.
The session brought together leaders in business and sport to focus on the experiences of women who have achieved leadership roles and to consider the factors that will increase the presence of women in senior posts. In particular, the importance of the environment which supports and nurtures individual talent whilst enabling teams to thrive and support women to make that critical breakthrough into leadership positions will be explored. The lecture was followed by a question and answer session with an expert panel of women who have leadership roles within their sectors. Panel members who joined Baroness Campbell were Vice Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University, Professor Susan Price and Maddie Thompson, partner at Price Waterhouse Coopers.
Baroness Campbell will step down as Chair of UK sport in May after coming to the end of the maximum 10-year tenure. At the helm of the elite sport funding body she has been integral in ensuring that Team GB and Paralympics GB had the appropriate support which resulted in them landing a record medal haul at the 2012 Games with Britain finishing third in the tables at both the Olympics and Paralympics.
A former PE teacher, then sports science lecturer, Baroness Campbell was the chief executive of the National Coaching Foundation for a decade and then the chief executive of the Youth Sport Trust (YST) for a further 10 years.
Over the past decade, she has revolutionised the elite sport system in the UK through her continued chairmanship of the YST and championing the role sport can plan in schools and wider society. She has represented her country as a player, a coach and a team manager in netball.
Supported by Yorkshire Bank, the lecture is part of Leeds Met's 'Carnegie Conversations' guest lecture series, organised by the University's Carnegie Faculty.
Future lectures to be held in the series include a session on Tuesday 7 May which will feature a Q&A where former British Lions player John Bentley will interview England Head Coach Stuart Lancaster; Gareth Davies, Dean of Leeds Metropolitan's Carnegie Faculty and former Wales rugby captain and British Lions player and former British Lions coach Sir Ian McGeechan. On Monday 3 June, Leeds Rhinos and Great Britain captain Kevin Sinfield will present while on Monday 1 July international cricketers Alec Stewart and Jason Gillespie will be interviewed by South African cricketer Dave Callaghan about the impending Ashes series.
In 1980, Baroness Campbell was appointed Regional Officer for the East Midlands by the Sports Council of Great Britain. She moved to the National Coaching Foundation (NCF) where after a year she was appointed Chief Executive. Her influence and achievements were already being recognised and she was awarded an MBE in 1991 for services to sport. In 1995 she became Chief Executive of the Youth Sport Trust having played a key role in setting up the organisation. She was awarded a CBE in 2003 and in April 2005 was appointed Chair for UK Sport, the organisation responsible for world class Olympic and Paralympic success in the UK following 18 months as the Reform Chair.