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Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley

Highly Successful IT Entrepreneur & Philanthropist

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Belonging, Business, Education, Female Leadership, Future of Work, Futurism, Human Resources, Leadership, Neurodiversity, Non-Profit, Social Activism, TED, Women, Women in Business, Women in Tech
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Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley Biography

Dame Stephanie Shirley CH, also known as Steve, is a workplace revolutionary and successful IT entrepreneur turned ardent venture philanthropist. At 88 years old, her story has many strands which, woven together, have produced a lifetime of exceptional achievements. Dame Stephanie’s story begins with her 1939 arrival in Britain as an unaccompanied five-year-old Kindertransport refugee. This defining experience equipped her with fortitude at a very young age and made her determined to live a life worth saving.

In 1962, she started a software house, Freelance Programmers, and pioneered radical new flexible work practices that changed the landscape for women working in technology. She went on to create a global business and a personal fortune which she shared with her colleagues, making millionaires of 70 of her staff at no cost to anyone but herself.

Since retiring in 1993, Dame Stephanie’s life has been dedicated to venture philanthropy in the fields of IT and autism. She initially founded Autism at Kingwood in 1994 to support her late son Giles, and her charitable Shirley Foundation went on to make grants of nearly £70 million. It spent out in 2018 in favor of Autistica, the UK’s national autism research charity founded by Dame Stephanie. In 2009/10 she served as the UK’s first ever national Ambassador for Philanthropy.

Dame Stephanie’s memoir Let It Go was first published in 2012 and re-published in 2019 for worldwide distribution. The first translated version was launched in Germany in 2020 and a Spanish translation is coming soon. Dame Stephanie is currently working with The Development Partnership, to make a multi-part TV series with one of the major streaming services. During lockdown in 2020, Dame Stephanie produced her second book, So To Speak, a collection of 29 of her speeches given over the last 40 years. All proceeds from the book go to Autistica.

Dame Stephanie has been much honored. In 2013, she was named by Woman’s Hour as one of the 100 most powerful women in Britain. In 2014, the Science Council listed her as one of the Top 100 practicing scientists in the UK. In 2015, Dame Stephanie was given the Women of the Year Special Award, and in the same year her TED Talk received a standing ovation from more than a thousand of the world’s most recognized technical entrepreneurs, thinkers, creators and doers. It has since received 2.2m views on YouTube. In 2017, Dame Stephanie received a Companion of Honour (CH), a membership limited to only 65 individuals globally, for her services to the IT industry and philanthropy.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/19/2024.

Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley Videos

  • Gender Equality in Tech with Dame Stephanie
    Gender Equality in Tech with Dame Stephanie
    Earlier this year we met with Dame Stephanie Shirley to talk about Gender Equality in the Technology Industry.
  • Dame Stephanie Shirley
    Dame Stephanie Shirley
    Stephanie Shirley pioneering remote working in her tech business - 50 years ago - and she'll be talking about it at Management Today's Leading in the...
  • Interview With Dame Stephanie Steve Shirley
    Interview With Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley
    Dame Stephanie Shirley is one of Britain's leading philanthropists and has donated most of her life to helping good causes, especially those close to...
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Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley Books

  • Let IT Go - The Memoirs of Dame Stephanie Shirley
    Let IT Go - The Memoirs of Dame Stephanie Shirley

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