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...the Club's fortunes around. She took over Birmingham City FC when it was in administration, and in her first year at the helm, the Club recorded a financial trading profit. In 1996 the Club made an overall profit for the first time in modern history and in February 1997 the Club launched on the Stock market valued at the time of float at £25,000,000; she was the youngest Managing Director of a PLC in the UK.
During her tenure at Birmingham City Karren increased the average gate of the Club from 6,000 to a sell out capacity of over 30,000 and in October 2009 her business was valued at over £82million and she sold it.
In January 2010, Karren was appointed Vice Chairman of West Ham United FC. In January 2011, under her leadership campaign, WHU was awarded as preferred bidder for the Olympic Stadium. As a result her club will be moving there post games in 2014.
Karren has attracted much media attention in her career, and was the subject of an hour long documentary 'Inside Story - The Real Life Manageress' shown on BBC 1. She has hosted her own TV show, Brady Bunch, and has also presented both Loose Women and Live Talk on ITV and she has also presented Central Weekend Live. She is regularly featured in the news, on TV and radio. Karren has written four books; a factual account of her first season at Birmingham City, 'Brady plays the Blues' two novels, 'United' and 'Trophy Wives' and her latest book 'Playing to Win' is about successful women in business.
Karren is a columnist for The Sun newspaper; the UK's biggest selling national daily newspaper. She is also a columnist for Women & Home. She is a judge of the Cosmopolitan Women of Achievement Awards and the Sports Industry Awards, Red Magazine Women Awards, Women & Home Women Awards.
She is on the business Board of Scope, and the Ambassador for Birmingham Women's Aid. She has been a Board Director of Mothercare PLC, Channel 4 Television and Sport England and is currently a non-Executive Director of Arcadia. She is an honouree Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing.
She was voted by Cosmopolitan as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world and in 2004 and again in 2006 attended The Queen's lunch for Women Achievers and Business Leaders. She was acknowledged as one of the most influential women in Britain by the Daily Mail and voted as one of Britain's Most Inspirational Women by Good Housekeeping magazine.
In November 2006 she won the Cosmopolitan Woman of the Year, in the category of Women Who Have Changed the World.
In March 2006 she was chosen as the team leader on BBC1's The Apprentice, for Comic Relief, where she lead her team (Trinny Woodall, Jo Brand, Cheryl Cole and Maureen Lipman) to a resounding victory over the boys team (Alistair Campbell, Piers Morgan, Rupert Everett, Danny Baker and Ross Kemp) raising over £750k (the two teams together raising £1million for charity).
In December 2007 Karren was a guest on Desert Island Discs and February 2008 saw the launch of Karren Brady's 'Today's Business Woman' magazine.
In October 2007 Karren was voted Business Woman of the Year and in November 2008 she was named as one of the top leadership role models in a national poll. This recognition was quickly followed in December 2008 when she was presented with the coveted Spirit of Everywoman Award at the NatWest Everywoman Awards, acknowledging her outstanding achievements in changing the landscape for women in business.
During January 2009, Karren presented a series of features for ITV1's GMTV called Just the Job, helping people back into work, and giving advice about looking for and retaining your job in this uncertain economic climate.
November 2010 saw Karren listed in the business category of The Sunday Telegraph's '100 Most Powerful Women in Britain', whilst she was also included in the Evening Standard's list of 'London's 1000 Most Influential People 2010', second to David Beckham in the category of Sport.
In December 2010 Dr. Karren Brady received her Doctorate from the University of Birmingham in Business studies.
In 2010 following appearances as one of Lord Sugar's interrogators on the popular BBC show 'The Apprentice', Karren has replaced Margaret Mountford as Lord Sugar's right-hand woman.
In July 2011 she won the National Reality TV Award for best TV judge beating Cheryl Cole, Louis Walsh and Aleshia Dixon amongst others.
Testimonials
‘Just wanted to let you know that Karen was a fantastic after dinner speaker last night impressing all of the Goldman Sachs mob. I've been to so many conferences where I can't remember who the speaker was, let alone what they said, that it was refreshing to have somebody speak who was natural, clever, and funny’ Goldman Sachs
‘The success of a Masterclass is solely dependant on the quality of the speakers, the power of their presentations and the value the audience perceive in the session and you exceeded our expectations in all three areas.’ HBOS
“I would just like to say how lovely Karren was, not only a very beautiful lady but also very articulate and intelligent. It was so interesting to hear a women's viewpoint on the football world and everyone commented on how interesting her speech was.’ Deloitte
‘Inspriating and witty account of life as the first woman of football was extremely motivational and feedback from the event has been exceptional’ Women in Business Lunch
‘Overall evaluation 10, audience reaction 10...engagement with audience and content of presentation covering business development, personal development outstanding’ Royal Bank of Scotland
'Thank you very much for your very entertaining and informative speech. Our delegates thoroughly enjoyed your session and many believed this was the highlight of the conference!' Anthony Keast - Tyco International
‘Thanks again for delivering a brilliant speech at our Risk Forum and as you’ll see from our online survey results below; an excellent rating!’ Catherine Tasker Institute of Risk Management
"Karren was a star! Very engaging and certainly one of the best I've seen on the circuit for a very long time. Please pass on my thanks." CB Richard Ellis
‘Having spoken with many of the delegates both on the day and over the past week, they have had nothing but compliments for the very illuminating presentation that you have. The energy, enthusiasm and passion you brought to our event was compelling.’ Chairman Irish Direct marketing Association
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