Women, sport and business: Making NBA history
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As part of our mini-series on women, sport and business we meet Cynt Marshall. She's the chief executive officer of the Dallas Mavericks and the first black female CEO in the history of the National Basketball Association, a professional basketball league in North America.
Cynt tells us about her background, where she found the drive to forge an enormously successful career and how she’s changed the toxic and very male workplace culture she found when she arrived at the Mavericks.
Presenter: Rahul Tandon Production: Helen Thomas and Carmel O’Grady Image: Cynt Marshall; Credit: Getty
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| 0:38.5 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily here on the BBC World Service. Today we're continuing our mini-series on women, sports and business put together to coincide with the women's euros and the African Women's Cup of Nations. I'm Rahul Tandon and in this episode we're going to meet the indomitable St. Marshall. Sint is chief executive officer of the Dallas Mavericks. In February |
| 0:44.2 | 2018, she became the first black female CEO in the history of the National Basketball Association. |
| 0:52.0 | Usually when you're first, you don't know your first. |
| 0:54.9 | You just walk in and you take an opportunity or you just do what you need to do. |
| 0:59.4 | And then other people tell you, oh, you know you're the only one. |
| 1:02.1 | I mean, I didn't know that when I walked in. |
| 1:03.6 | Obviously, if I had been in a meeting with my 29 colleagues, I would have known that. |
| 1:07.7 | Well, according to Forbes, the Dallas Mavericks have a team value of $2.7 billion. |
| 1:12.3 | Let's give you some context around that because the Premier League champions Manchester City, |
| 1:17.0 | well, they have a value of $4.2 billion. |
| 1:19.7 | So the Dallas Mavericks, they're a pretty big club. |
| 1:22.8 | Sin was brought in to tackle what she describes as a very sexist and a very male culture. |
| 1:27.3 | If you want to do shady business or if you just don't want to tackle what she describes as a very sexist and a very male culture. |
| 1:35.3 | If you want to do shady business or if you just don't want to embrace women in the workplace or women in leadership, |
| 1:41.5 | if you can't kind of get on with this agenda and what we think makes a great place to work, |
| 1:43.5 | then we have to separate. |
| 1:48.0 | This episode, Stint will tell us about her background where she found that drive to forge an enormously successful career. And how do you change workplace culture? She gives us some |
| 1:53.9 | answers. Keep listening because Sint is a fascinating woman. |
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