Leaders In EDI: DAZN’s Shola Aminu

In conversation with DAZN Group’s Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Leaders in Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) is a monthly series covering news, views, comments and debates happening across the equality, diversity and inclusion space. It also shines a spotlight on the progress being made and the challenges being faced in EDI across sport. 

Beginning at 20:27, this episode includes a guest interview with Shola Aminu, the Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the DAZN Group. DAZN is the leading global sports entertainment platform available worldwide across 200+ markets.

Having started at DAZN in 2015 in a finance role, Aminu stepped into the role as the company’s first ever Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in June 2020. With our host Javan Odegah, Aminu explores the topic of Deliberate Action, with talk of acting with purpose, knowing your benchmarks for comparison, and balancing commercial elements with workplace culture.

 The Leaders in EDI podcast is part of the Leaders Meet: Diversity Series, delivered in partnership with Meta, which provides a platform for executives within sport to come together to drive diversity across the industry, accelerate the pace of change and inspire the next generation of executives, through thought-leadership events and digital forums To find out more about Leaders Meet: Diversity series, please visit https://info.leadersinsport.com/l/856843/2021-04-21/hfhrj.

In the podcast, we also refer to our latest Performance Special Report, which is titled 'The Female Lead: The evolution of athlete and coach development in women's sport'. To read this report, please visit: https://leadersinsport.com/performance-institute/reports/the-female-lead/?