#003 Dame Helena Morrissey DBE British Financier and Campaigner

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Get What You Want

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You’re ambitious and want to be successful, but is it enough to succeed? Being a woman in business you will know it has its extra challenges, so just how do you rise above, deal with challenges head on and start to make a difference for ourselves and others? Just how can you get what you want and have it all? Baroness Karren Brady CBE knows first hand just what it takes to be successful. Join Karren Brady every week as she sits down with some of the UK’s top female leaders and entrepreneurs as they share their story.

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#003 Dame Helena Morrissey DBE British Financier and Campaigner

Get What You Want

39 minutes 5 seconds

6 years ago

#003 Dame Helena Morrissey DBE British Financier and Campaigner

If anyone proves that you can have it all it's Helena Morrissey. Working mum to nine children, Helena is also the successful author of "a good time to be a girl".

Having started her career at the New York and London bond desks at Schroders, finding her career path blocked went on to become Newton Investment Management as Chief Executive.

Helena is now Head of Personal Investing at Legal & General Investment Management.

Established the 30% club in 2010 to campaign for greater female representation on company boards and she is a trustee at the Eve Appeal, which raises money for gynaecological cancers.

In 2010, Helena was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cambridge and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012 for services to UK business and promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2017 for services to diversity in financial services.

In this discussion which was recorded at the head offices of Legal & General, Helena shares some of her most shocking experiences in the early days when trying to raise a family whilst developing her career and shares her lessons learnt to anyone who is thinking of starting a family and worried about the impact this may have on their professional career.

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