Jo Bostock MBE
@Jobostock
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Into inclusion, equity, role models & sport. Run Pause Consultancy & co-founder @womensporttrust. Wrote Meaning of Success for @Cambridge_Uni.
London, UK.
Joined February 2011
What a brilliant choice. @SueDay13 is the real deal - super smart, generous and driven in all the right ways. A proper leader.
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The latest @womensporttrust research reports a record-breaking number of people watched women’s sport live in the UK in 2023. 2/9
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“Imagine Martin Luther King never had a dream but announced a 10 point plan from the Lincoln Memorial! We have to imagine the world we want and fight for it, even when we can’t see it.”
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Progression in women’s sport proves the value of inclusion via @WomenSportTrust. Combine leadership, investment, talent, governance, great comms and you create the architecture for success. Why wouldn’t any business, in any sector, be looking to do this??
The latest @womensporttrust research, with broadcast insight from @FuturesSport, has found an unprecedented level of TV viewership at the start of 2023. 1/4
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Incredible @MeeraSyal receiving #BAFTA. Speech inspires every “othered” individual, woman & POC. Highlighting progress of diversity but lack of it in spaces where decisions are made. “those who feel because of sex, class or race their stories don’t matter. They matter.” #BAFTAS
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@SuzyLevyTRP only went and wrote a book. Check out #MindtheInclusionGap - it’s an absolute belter. https://t.co/NjZySeLVSM
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Honoured to be on such an incredible list of women pushing women’s sport forward. #thankyou
📣 So, here it is... The Woman’s Hour Power List 2023: Women in Sport! 🙌 Our judges have picked out 30 women who are having a HUGE impact on women's sport. Click below to learn more about those on the list ⬇️
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"They had no idea what they had given me" Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe watched Andy Murray secure his second Wimbledon title, from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, where she was detained. Hear what happened when they met for Nazanin's #R4Today guest edit https://t.co/JKUNUuVXBI
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Celebrating a revolution in Women's Sport ... moving mountains with brilliant people is tough, magical, fun and totally unforgettable. https://t.co/gDn4Ew3QMf via @LinkedIn
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Yesterday I got to share a birthday with some glorious people. We were 10 years old.
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Last night @WomenSportTrust celebrated 10 years. A decade of collaboration with journalists, media companies, sponsors, NGBs & athletes. When we started, women’s sport achieved 3% of sporting media coverage. Today it’s 17%. Change doesn’t just happen, you have to make it happen.
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Happy Birthday us! This month Women’s Sport Trust celebrates our ten-year anniversary. Quite a milestone for us, and what a decade it’s been for women’s sport… 1/9
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Word of the day is 'blutterbunged' (19th century dialect): dumbfounded, confounded, and open-mouthed in amazement. (Not to be confused with 'dumfungled': utterly exhausted.)
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Tim Cook @Apple : 'No good excuse' for lack of women in tech: "Technology's a great thing that will accomplish many things, but unless you have diverse views at the table that are working on it, you don't wind up with great solutions."
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Apple chief executive tells the BBC the tech sector needs more women in order to thrive.
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Latest figures from @WomenSportTrust and @FuturesSport show that TV audiences for women’s sport have doubled so far this year with average time per person viewing across all programming increasing by 188%. https://t.co/7RkrUaHmlH 1/10
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LONDON, UK, 6th September — Latest figures from the Women’s Sport Trust reveal that TV audiences for women’s sport have doubled so far this year: the average time per person viewing across all...
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This is fantastic news @soulcapofficial @alicedearingx 🙌🏾 Soul Cap: Afro swimming cap approved after Olympic ban
bbc.co.uk
The move is described as "a huge step in the right direction" by a specialist cap maker.
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We show our impartiality when we report without fear or favour; when we are not scared to hold power to account.” @maitlis compelling #MacTaggart lecture on the trap of ‘both-sideism’, the mechanics of populism & vandalism of untrammelled power.
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Great piece on why @serenawilliams is far more than a tennis player by @NatashaSHenry 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 https://t.co/OyfYkX6R6n
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“The alternative to including differing viewpoints is groupthink…whereas developing “the ability to disagree well” can even make a company more innovative.” @FT
ft.com
Managers must meet the challenge of rising polarisation with sensitivity and a commitment to real diversity
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What part of valuing difference, creating fairer opportunities and enabling belonging do the anti-woke crew have a problem with? Or do I hear a dog whistle?
The Attorney-General Suella Braverman claims we live in a country in which diversity, equality and inclusion are the new orthodoxy – if only, writes @PhilipJCollins1. https://t.co/A7KHfPno8h
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Very very sad that it has come to this.... Brave of the players to step up and ask for help. Can anyone help?
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