Episode 13: The Leadership Playground with Belinda Clark

Belinda Clark, AO, is a leader in the Australian sports industry and has recently turned attention to starting a new venture to support the development of leadership capability and confidence in young girls. Clark was an elite cricketer who captained the Australian Team from 1994-2005, with a win ratio of 80% over more than a decade and the first player male or female to score a double century in a One Day International Match. She was also CEO of Women’s Cricket Australia and steered the organisation through an integration with Cricket Australia. In 2000, she received an AM for services to cricket and to the promotion and development of the game for women and girls and an AO in 2018 Belinda brought an evidence-based mindset to the game, after initially training as a physiotherapist, integrating science with high-performance sport. She excels at strategy and its implementation and is a natural builder of teams and brands. In her previous role as Executive General Manager, Community Cricket at Cricket Australia, she worked with a team across Australia to transform community cricket through innovative solutions based on community needs including providing a platform for the growth of junior cricket and girl’s competition. And she continues to be an advocate for females in sport at all levels. Belinda was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame, the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, the NSW Sports Hall of Fame and Hunter Region Sports Hall of Fame.In 2019, the Australian Financial Review Top 100 Women of Influence Awards recognised Belinda as the winner of the Arts, Culture and Sport category.