Blaire Palmer

Blaire Palmer is the authority on disrupting the future of leadership, and wants to help lead the workplace reformation. She brings more than two decades of experience in coaching boards and senior leaders to provoke everyone to think more critically about the idea of work and leadership itself.

As an expert keynote speaker, Palmer uses her bold and provocative perspective to bust myths about what it means to lead and to educate today’s leaders on how they can truly inspire their teams to step up and take on the challenges of operating in constantly changing times. Palmer leaves her audiences feeling stimulated by fresh ideas and empowered to rethink their approach to work.

Palmer spent a decade as one of the youngest female producers in the fast-paced environment of BBC’s "Today" program, over which time she became increasingly fascinated by the idea of leadership. This led her to take the leap from this safe and respected job to train as one of Europe’s first corporate coaches and start her own company to spread her refreshing ideas about leadership and how businesses need to evolve for the new century. Over the last 25 years she has worked with a wide variety of multinational corporations, such as Mattel, Airbus, Roche Pharmaceuticals, GSK, Travis Perkins, the BBC and Rexel, among others.

Palmer is able to use her expertise working in a diverse range of businesses to make sense of the way generative AI, hybrid work models, the long tail of the pandemic, growing understanding of mental health, the rising cost of living and cost of supply, and global unrest have all come together to create a uniquely contemporary crisis in the workforce. Beyond mere analysis, she proposes uniquely contemporary solutions for businesses whose work force is not just geographically dispersed across the world, but whose needs and wants have changed substantially in the past few years alone.

She is the author of several books on leadership and work: "The Hyper-Creative Personality: How to Focus Your Ideas and Become the Most Successful Person You Know," "The Recipe for Success: What Really Successful People Do and How You Can Do it Too," and "What's Wrong with Work: The Five Frustrations of Work and How to Fix Them for Good." Her latest, "Punks in Suits: How to Lead the Workplace Reformation," is a provocative rallying cry for organizations to ask uncomfortable questions about how they work, and grapple with whether or not their approach is still fit for purpose in today’s world.