Alex Paske is the Founder and Managing Director of the Mintridge Foundation, a charity that has worked with over 40,000 young people to enhance their life skills through sport and provide a support network by harnessing the power of positive sporting role models.
Alex was the recipient of the Women of the Future Sport Award in 2017, and in 2018 received the prestigious Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Award in the Grassroots Category, as well as being appointed an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
Kim talks to Alex about her sporting upbringing, the challenges faced in starting a business at 24, the importance of role models and mentors to young people and how her greatest perceived failure turned into one of her greatest triumphs.
-------
Nominations for the Women of the Future Awards 2019 are open - if you know an incredible young women thriving in her industry, you can nominate her here
Nominations for the Kindness and Leadership: 50 Leading Lights are also open, recognising the contribution of kind leaders to business, the economy and society, nominate here
For more on the Mintridge Foundation click here
The Women of the Future Podcast: Doctor Chern Ein Oon
The Women of the Future Podcast: Tori Longdon
The Women of the Future Podcast: Lucille Dejito
The Women of the Future Podcast: Sonali Shah
The Women of the Future Podcast: Deborah Bowman MBE FRSA
The Women of the Future Podcast: Lisa Smosarski
The Women of the Future Podcast: Balvinder Sidhu
The Women of the Future Podcast: Nimco Ali OBE
The Women of the Future Podcast: Nicole Sierra-Rolet
The Women of the Future Podcast: Jess Phillips MP
The Women of the Future Podcast: Rachel & Laura Beattie
The Women of the Future Podcast: Danielle Brown MBE
The Women of the Future Podcast: Fatima Zaman
The Women of the Future Podcast: Cherie Blair CBE QC
The Women of the Future Podcast: Gillian Charlesworth
The Women of the Future Podcast: Amy Durrant
The Women of the Future Podcast: Sean Tompkins
The Women of the Future Podcast: Jules Chappell OBE
The Women of the Future Podcast: Sarah Sobka
The Women of the Future Podcast: Cheryl Laidlaw
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The emPOWERed Half Hour
Reaching your Goals
Insights@work
Business Dad
The Ken Coleman Show
The Cardone Zone