Rosie and Mollie Kmita
Women’s representation in sport, media, and male-coded industries is still a pipeline problem, not just a hiring one. The barrier is not stated ambition. It is the absence of visible role models, coaching pathways, and platforms for women from ethnically diverse backgrounds to enter and progress. Closing that gap takes practitioners who have lived the industry and built the route others can now follow.
Former professional footballers and Sky Sports broadcasters Rosie and Mollie Kmita help organisations advance women’s leadership and representation in sport, media, and beyond.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Rosie and Mollie Kmita
- They host with the fluency of working broadcasters. Both co-front Sky Sports’ Barclays Women’s Championship Show and the Broadcast Award-winning show The Dub, and bring the same standard to corporate stages, awards nights, and panels.
- They built The Powerhouse Project from inside the game. Not a sponsorship vehicle. A working leadership pipeline that has supported more than 60 women through the UEFA B Prep Programme since 2022, with Nike, the FA, and Google Pixel as operating partners.
- They speak credibly on representation because they are the data point. Rosie’s career as a British Asian professional footballer makes their advocacy specific rather than general.
- They convert lived industry experience into actionable talking points for HR, ED&I, and brand audiences who are tired of generic diversity content.
Biography highlights
- Co-founders of The Powerhouse Project, a women’s leadership initiative in football and sports media, partnered with Nike, The FA, Football Beyond Borders, and Google Pixel
- Co-hosts of Sky Sports’ Barclays Women’s Championship Show
- Hosts of The Dub, the Sky Sports and Snapchat show that won a Broadcast Award
- Former professional footballers with playing time at Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Brighton and Hove Albion, and others
- Regular contributors to Soccer AM, BBC One’s MOTDx, and Sky Sports News’ The Football Show
- Brand work with Nike, Google Pixel, FIFA, Pepsi, Expedia, Snapchat, SoccerX
Biography
Women’s football has changed faster in the last five years than in the previous fifty. The pipeline behind it has not kept pace. Coaching qualifications, broadcast access, media production roles, and senior executive routes remain structurally narrow, particularly for women from ethnically diverse backgrounds. The Kmita twins built The Powerhouse Project to widen that pipeline from inside the industry.
Rosie and Mollie grew up in north London and played professionally at Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Brighton and Hove Albion, and other clubs across the women’s pyramid. Rosie was one of two existing players retained when West Ham received their FA Women’s Super League franchise in 2018. Both retired into broadcasting and now co-host Sky Sports’ Barclays Women’s Championship Show and The Dub, the Sky Sports and Snapchat show that took a Broadcast Award.
The Powerhouse Project, launched in 2021, is the substantive work. The UEFA B Prep Programme run with the FA and Nike has supported more than 60 women coaches since 2022. The Pixel FC Academy, run with Google, develops young women into sports media careers across broadcast, production, and written press. The partners are operating partners, not logo sponsors, and the cohort numbers grow each year.
For corporate audiences they bring two things at once. Hosting craft built on national broadcast experience, and a substantive, working point of view on representation, female leadership, and how to actually move people through an industry pipeline rather than just talk about it.
Key speaking topics
- Women’s leadership in sport and media
- Representation and ethnically diverse pathways in male-coded industries
- Building leadership pipelines through programme partnerships
- Female empowerment and career progression
- Awards hosting, panel moderation, and event facilitation
- Broadcasting and on-camera presence
Ideal for
- ED&I, HR, and people leaders building representation pipelines beyond awareness campaigns
- Brand and marketing teams designing women’s sport and youth-facing activations
- Conference organisers needing a host or moderator with broadcast fluency on women’s leadership and sport panels
- Internal women’s network events and ERG showcases
Audience outcomes
- A clearer view of what an operating leadership pipeline looks like compared to a sponsorship-led ED&I programme
- Direct industry perspective on the barriers women from ethnically diverse backgrounds face in sport and media, and what removes them
- A worked example of building an external initiative alongside a primary career
- Energy and craft on stage from two practitioners who host professionally for a living