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Sport & Recreation Alliance

Lisa Wainwright MBE

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Our guest this episode is Lisa Wainwright, CEO of Sport & Recreation Alliance.

Lisa has worked at the heart of sports development and administration for over 25 years following her successful work across, Sport England Netball, Basketball and Volleyball. She affectionately picked up the tag as the woman who works with balls.

During the episode we discuss Lisa’s journey to leading SRA, her leadership philosophies and life as a CEO.

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I’d seen through my teacher Pat Green, that people can change people’s lives and I wanted a little piece of that.
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17:06

The challenge to me is, I’m always so optimistic about what we can deliver, I want to do more, it’s just having the resources to be able to do it.
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21:04

Sometimes you have to accept that from a leadership point of view, you can’t please everyone.
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25:08

As leaders, we need to be thinking well ahead of those changes coming and preparing for them.
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36:17

I’ve always had a personal boardroom, a group of people that I will use at different times to support me.
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