Profile: Kiki Maurey
Coach and inspirational speaker, Kiki Maurey, has worked hard to promote diversity among black and ethnic minorities and women. An OBE was certainly a welcome surprise, but she had no intention of resting on her laurels. Liz Hall finds out why.
I’m still standing
When a letter arrived last summer from Her Majesty’s Government notifying Kiki Maurey that she was to be awarded an OBE, she thought it was a hoax.
“I read it and I thought, ‘Yeah, right… if it’s not Saga, it’s a practical joke’. I laughed, then looked at the postmark and thought, ‘Oh, my God!’ ”
The OBE was...