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Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

Cynthia Marshall: Rebuilding the Dallas Mavericks

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6538 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynthia Marshall is the first African-American woman to lead an NBA team. She was hired by owner Mark Cuban to transform the organization's workplace culture after numerous reports of sexual misconduct were uncovered. She also opens up about her faith, motherhood, losing her child and beating cancer. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:07.0

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0:08.0

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0:10.0

Two worlds, one impossible mission.

0:12.0

We're gonna save the stars.

0:14.0

Project Hail Mary.

0:15.0

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0:16.0

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0:20.0

In this episode of Boss Files.

0:22.2

I'm uniquely qualified to do this.

0:24.6

I have to do it for the sisterhood.

0:26.0

I have to help create a great place to work.

0:28.3

Dallas Maverick CEO Cynthia Marshall.

0:31.3

She's the first African American woman ever to lead an NBA team.

0:36.5

She was handpicked by team owner Mark Cuban and tasked with

0:40.1

cleaning up a toxic work environment. An independent investigation later found, quote, numerous acts

0:46.3

of sexual harassment that spanned over two decades at the Mavericks. I walked into a bad

0:52.2

culture. I walked into a place where the women were not valued and treated the way I would like to see them treat it. So we had a problem with how we treated women. Frankly, I think we had a problem with how we respected and treated people of color. And it wasn't a very diverse and inclusive environment when I got there.

1:12.6

And so we needed to do some things. She's fulfilled her 100-day plan to turn around the team's

1:18.2

leadership, taking the organization from no women in leadership to 50%. She tells me she is

1:25.0

committed to making her employees the top priority.

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