Bakers Delight co-founder Lesley Gillespie on leadership, family and getting a degree

When it comes to education opportunities that create good leaders, co-founder of Bakers Delight Lesley Gillespie says “anything that opens up your mind” is a good thing for your business acumen. 

“You’ll always hear about the Mark Zuckerbergs and Steve Jobs that dropped out [of uni], but nobody ever talks about the ones that finished their degrees,” Gillespie says.

Speaking to SmartCompany this week about her involvement in the Monash University’s Global Leaders Summit, Gillespie says her own undergraduate degree in science and a diploma of education from the university were incredibly valuable to her in starting Bakers Delight, despite not being directly related to the business. 

“I think one thing is doing a degree requires a bit of work ethic, and requires resilience and discipline.