EY (No. 1 on the Fair360, formerly DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) and espnW released a new report examining how sport prepares women to build successful businesses in the high-stakes world of entrepreneurship.
The report, “Why female athletes make winning entrepreneurs,” highlights the skills women develop as athletes and how those winning behaviors contribute to entrepreneurial success. Through a series of in-depth interviews with women entrepreneurs, including Olympians, elite, professional and collegiate-level athletes from nine countries and 11 different sports, the study explores how competing in sport and learning key behaviors from those who play at the highest levels can help women entrepreneurs without sports backgrounds build market-leading companies.
Beth Brooke-Marciniak, EY Global Vice Chair Public Policy and founder of EY Women Athletes Business Network (WABN), says:
