Dr Miranda Brawn
Prof Miranda Brawn is a keynote speaker, success mindset coach, investor, boardroom, venture capital (VC) and AI start up advisor, podcast host, lawyer, former investment banker and hedge fund sales trader working for top global banks like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs and trailblazing advocate for boardroom diversity across all sectors and levels. She has negotiated and advised clients on thousands of transactions across a range of investment activities in a wide variety of asset classes representing over $1 trillion of deal value while working in global offices.
As a pre-eminent thinker, Professor Brawn is recognised for her innovative ideas often being called a ‘breath of fresh air’ which influences key decision-makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is highly respected for her unique perspectives, her balance of contrarian thinking with measured judgment, and her ability to turn economic insight into investible ideas with her positive and inspiring energy.
She commenced “The Brawn Review: Boardroom Sustainability, Inclusion and Corporate Governance” when was resident Senior Visiting Fellow at Oxford University in 2022 to 2023 and it launches at the UK House of Lords in October 2025. Founder, President and CEO of award-winning “TMBDLF” which made UK history in 2016 launching the UK’s first diversity leadership lecture for our next generation. Her non-profit Foundation bridges the gap between education and the workplace helping over 10,000 young people and impacting millions, while working to close the diversity and inclusion gaps, she was named one of the UK’s most influential people (2024) and is celebrated as a global thought leader with over 100 awards and honorary doctorates.
Also, being named the “Woman of the Year” in the 2019’s Women in Finance Awards for her ‘extraordinary and sustained achievement…within Finance‘ and ‘voice for change’. She is also ranked as one of the leading global diversity, inclusion and sustainability champions for over twenty years. Her inspiring leadership has earned top recognition from Financial Times, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, and Financial News, naming her one of the 100 most influential business executives globally and women in European finance which started as a teenager when she was one of the first women of colour on the City of London’s trading floor.
Miranda has spoken for top companies, venues and universities across over 35 countries like Goldman Sachs, Reed Smith, Hogan Lovells, KPMG, UBS, JP Morgan, HSBC, Goldman, Google, UK House of Lords, UK House of Commons, UK Speakers House, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, LSE etc, while also captivating audiences and hosting “The D.A.R.E. Podcast” focused on successful mindset with global leaders and celebrities, which was powered by “City AM” for the first two seasons and has two international TED talks.
She is also an expert media contributor and has appeared on primetime television and radio shows for various global media platforms including BBC Breakfast News, ITV’s Good Morning Britain, BET, SKY News and Bloomberg as their “New Voices” since 2021 talking about a range of topics including Electrical Vehicles (EV), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Politics, Boardroom Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging with an audience of approximately 310 million households worldwide.
An author, multi-sector boardroom member as Non-Executive Director, Chair, Trustee and Board Advisor for multiple organisations which includes the UK’s largest NHS healthcare organisation, FTSE100 Financial Company’s Charity and Sustainable Funds (with over £2 billion AUM in total), Venture Capital (VC) Funds, Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-ups and previously advised the UK’s richest family on their mature start-up in the electrical vehicle engineering industry to name but a few. She continues to inspire our next and current generation of leaders through innovation and inclusion across industries.
Her talks leave the audience feeling highly inspired and empowered with her groundbreaking insights, multi-decade experience across many sectors and dynamic energy especially with her popular “Yes You Can!” and “D.A.R.E. To Succeed” talks.
Further information can be located on her personal speaker biography. http://mirandabrawn.com/speaker/