Season 3 | Episode 10 – Places She Shapes with Zoe Smeeth

Brogan MacDonald was going to be an artist. A Blue Peter badge at five, a love of drawing and fashion, and a plan that had nothing to do with maths or science. Today she is Head of Sustainability for Building Structures at Ramboll UK, a role that, until three years ago, did not exist. She built it.

This week Brogan joins Zoe to trace a journey that almost went a very different way. She is honest about the teachers who told her what she could not do, the first year of university where her maths marks were Ds, and the tutoring she was too embarrassed to admit she needed. She talks about being one of very few women on site, the meetings she walked out of in tears, and the mentor who threw her in the deep end to see if she could float.

Then there is the month in the  ...