Leading Professionals

June Sarpong: Leading as an outsider

Leading Professionals

Show Notes

Laura and Tony are joined by June Sarpong OBE, the BBC’s first Global Director of Creative Diversity. They explore how to bring about disruptive change in a large, complex and high-profile professional organisation, and how to get things done quickly in an environment when decisions are taken slowly. June explains how she managed to do all this as an outsider with no previous leadership experience, but a great deal of broadcast experience. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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