A decade of podcast and radio broadcasting 2015 -2024

Dame Ann Limb broadcast media 2015-2024

Over the last decade, I have been featured in various radio programmes and podcasts. In these, I discuss my experiences of education, leadership, religion, public and charitable service, growing up in Moss Side Manchester in 1950’s, and how in my 60s, I found myself increasingly and unintentionally an LGBTQ+ role model. Click on the links below if you want to listen to any of these. 

22 October 2015 BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06j6nn3

It's 24 years since girls were first allowed to join the Scouts and for the first time in its 108-year history a woman is the new Chair of the Scouts Association. Ann Limb, former civil servant and teacher, Quaker and daughter of a butcher from Moss Side joins Emma Barnett to discuss her vision for her new role.

24 May 2016 BBC Radio 4 Great Lives George Fox

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07bzdc1

George Fox, born in 1624 in Leicestershire, is best known as the founder of the Quakers. In early life he was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and for a while he worked as a shepherd as well. But it was as a preacher travelling widely across the land that he made his name and received the most abuse. As he writes: ‘the people fell upon me in great rage, struck me down and almost stifled and smothered me. And I was cruelly beaten and bruised by them with their hands, Bibles and sticks.’ Nominating the dissenting George Fox is Ann Limb, Quaker and Chair of the Scout Association. 

3 April 2019 We Are Power Podcast You are only as strong as your weakest link

https://wearepower.net/podcast/11cccc9fc9b24be0a59dec14c2924577

Ann Limb speaks about women in senior leadership roles and shares insights on overcoming imposter syndrome and her Northern heritage. 

11 April 2019 Women of Influence #FEWomenSpeakly re-released 23 March 2021

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/fewomenspeakly/re-released-from-2019-women-Yvqpa4QoWlU/

Thirty years ago, Ann Limb was the founder and first ever chair of WLN. Now, in 2021, she's joining us at the #YouToo conference looking back over the history and achievements of WLN We are re-releasing this episode of #FEWomenSpeakly, from 11 April 2019. In the episode, Kathryn James catches up with Ann Limb, Founder & Vice President Helena Kennedy Foundation; Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College University of Cambridge; named in the Northern Power Women 2019 Power List; #1 LGBTQ+ public sector role model on the 2019 "OUTstanding LGBT+ Role Model Lists) to find out about the early days of WLN; what advice she'd give her younger self; and why in 2019 Ann began speaking out about her own intersectional identity.

22 October 2020 Are we doing enough for disadvantaged learners #SkillsWorldLive

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/skillsworldlive/are-we-doing-enough-for-PBAv1en2ywG/

On #SkillsWorldLive tonight, leading figures shaping the post-compulsory education and skills systems, including apprenticeships in the UK, and across the world, are interviewed by Tom Bewick. Guests include: David Hughes Dr Ann Limb Laura-Jane Rawlings and Rachel Cunliffe who discuss "Are we doing enough for disadvantaged learners?"
 

26 February 2021 PLMR Podcast Spring Budget

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/plmr-podcast/plmr-podcast-spring-budget-mXDyVcBslAP/

In an episode about the Spring Budget in 2021, Ann Limb Chair UK Innovation Corridor​ discusses economic priorities for the region.

9 June 2021 Pride in Leadership interview with Claire Ebrey

https://prideinleadership.co.uk/news-list/ann-limb-cbe-dl-lgbt-directors-and-leaders-network/

Ann Limb was named #1 LGBTQ+ public sector role model in the OUTstanding List in 2019 and one of the 50 most influential women born in the North of England in the Northern Power Women Power List and here she talks about her life with Claire Ebrey founder of Pride in Leadership 

9 July 20211 How does WLN need to change to remain relevant today and tomorrow? #FEWomenSpeakly

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/fewomenspeakly/episode-3-how-does-wln-need-10c_teG97mu/

In this episode, Kathryn James and Dame Ann Limb, philanthropist, mover, and Quaker continue a conversation from our #YouToo conference on 31 March 2021, exploring the Women’s Leadership Network past, present and future.

17 September 2021 Empowering LGBTQ+ people to succeed 

https://www.listennotes.com/top-podcasts/ann-limb/?__cf_chl_tk=_6zX8Qr_EYZDBa7s368LB1R60x89wzvMxeZq5bOZvew-1730635150-1.0.1.1-52YsUZFP1XRzwFqw8iDiT6iNPBzOamTnvqtfrhCNpoM

As part of the City & Guilds Foundation Inclusion and diversity events series, offering 

thought-provoking conversations and actionable steps to promote equal opportunities and improve inclusion and diversity in your organisation.  In this  podcast we discussed LGBTQ+ experiences such as inclusion challenges and career progression.
What does being LGBTQ+ in the workplace look like today and what type of training do organisations need to ensure their retention and career progression? We explored how we can create workplaces that support LGBTQ+ individuals to stand up and stand out.

5 May 2022 LGBTQ+ initiatives across the FE sector The Education and Training 

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-education-and/lgbtq-initiatives-across-the-MF1ZPE9ofYa/

This Equality, Diversity and Inclusion episode is about LGBTQ+ initiatives across the Further Education sector and includes a contribution from Dr Ann Limb, Chair at City and Guilds. 

11 & 18 February 2023 My Mum Made Me 

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/my-mum-made-me-mom/dame-ann-limb-i-of-ii-the-_beXSFmWDrt/

The first female and first gay Chair of The Scouts in its 108-year history, Dr Dame Ann Limb speaks about her rise from a working-class neighbourhood in Manchester to being awarded a Damehood for her public service. In this episode, Ann unpacks everything from women in public life to how she thinks her mum gave up her ambitions to conform in 1950s Britain. (She's also met Kate, Princess of Wales, which I'm very jealous of) #mum #mom #relationships #britain

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/my-mum-made-me-mom/dame-ann-limb-ii-of-ii-the-S6k8B0XrisY/

In this episode, part II of II, Dame Ann Limb, the first female and first gay Chair of The Scouts, talks about why she thinks her mum might have been gay, her experience living as an out woman in the 1980s and 1990s, and why Brits take a different attitude to Americans about rags to riches real life stories. (She's also met Kate, Princess of Wales, which I'm very jealous of) #mum #mom #relationships #britain

2 October 2023 Browne Jacobson #EdInfluence 

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/edinfluence/id1707036499?i=1000629885427

In this episode of EdInfluence Season 3, we hear from Dame Ann Limb DBE DL FRSA FCGI, who describes herself as ‘a philanthropist, mover and Quaker, trying to navigate her way through life by doing least harm to people and planet’. Ann is currently Pro Chancellor of the University of Surrey, Chair of the City & Guilds of London Institute, and Board member of LTE Group in which capacity she is Chair of Governors of The Manchester College. In March 2023, Ann was named inaugural Chair of the Lifelong Education Institute, established by ResPublica, to take forward a vision for whole-system reform. Ann co-chairs the FED Ambassadors.

10 Jan 2024 40 minutes with Dame Ann Limb the ASK Podcast 

https://askeurope.com/resources/40-minutes-with-dame-ann-limb/

The latest episode of Unlocking Your Potential, the ASK Podcast, is an insightful conversation with Dame Ann Limb. A leader, a teacher, a mentor, a consultant, a coach, with so much experience in influential positions. Dame Ann Limb is the current High Sherriff of Buckinghamshire and is a huge proponent of the importance of support and compassion for successful leadership, of challenging those behaviours that don’t serve you or your organisation, and of the value high-level coaching and mentoring bring to any leadership role. Named as one of the 50 most influential women born in the north of England, her current title is just one of many achievements peppering an illustrious career; an educationalist, business leader, charity chair and philanthropist, Dame Ann brings her insight into Leadership in both public and private sector roles, and in exec and non-exec positions. Her experience, insight, and unique pathway through such a remarkable career, bringing her both CBE and OBE accolades, is a masterclass in personal and professional growth, the benefits of self-reflection and working within your own values, and in creating healthy workplace cultures.

“I’m not somebody who has studied the theory of leadership particularly … first and foremost, you’ve got to believe in what you do … there’s very much more to it; you do have to have a clear set of values and a clear vision about what you want to do with the organisation – and the kind of culture that you create, and the kind of people that you gather around you…be self-aware enough to know where those values come from within yourself.”

This self-awareness is something that Dame Ann credits for her success in Leadership; she also discusses that this was something she consciously worked on learning, after committing to a management development programme during her first leadership role, which helped her to identify how she leads, and how to do it well. She went on to detail her view that great leaders all need a great coach and mentor – a string she has added to her own professional bow after benefiting from that support in early leadership roles, and a significant part of her ongoing philanthropic work.