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3 & 4 APRIL 2020

ExCeL LONDON

Gail Emms MBE: Speaking at the World Franchise Investment Summit

Gail Emms MBE

Life After Professional Sport

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Gail discusses how every business could benefit from working with someone who has dedicated a huge part of their life pursuing their sports dream.
Explaining how a sports mentality fits perfect with the attributes every franchisor looks for in a potential franchisee. Determination, drive and perseverance contributes to a winning formula when starting-up a franchised business; skills already possessed by every sports person!

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About Gail Emms MBE

Olympic Silver medallist, Gail Emms is a badminton athlete turned public speaker and marketeer who now work with LAPS (Life After Professional Sport, an organisation who help elite athletes find great new careers after sport. Using her experiences across years of success on the court to inspire people to attain their goals.
A hugely successful career which saw Emms claim World Championships gold in 2006, consecutive Commonwealth titles and back-to-back European Championships, she dominated the sport throughout the early 2000s. A passionate sports woman and now loving mother, Gail Emms has become the face and voice of badminton undertaking broadcasting and commentary roles for the sport. An ambassador for badminton and women within sport, Gail Emms is a truly phenomenal personality, athlete and mentor to the sporting world.
Sport professionals are highly sought after by employers in a number of sectors, and it should be no surprise. The characteristics that have enabled them to reach the top, are the same traits that employers look for in successful candidates… Performing under pressure, perseverance, coachability and drive & determination with a focus on results.