For a decade, Blaire Palmer was a top news producer for the BBC. Producing Radio 4’s flagship programme, Today, and the daily magazine show Woman’s Hour, she helped shape the news and current affairs agenda for the nation. Having been witness to both excellent leadership and its damaging flip-side, Blaire understood that too much talent was being wasted by ineffectual practice. So she put her skills and her beliefs to the test and set-up her own consultancy. Today, she is one of the UK’s most experienced and creative facilitators and trainers, working with ambitious high flyers in some of Europe’s leading multinationals. She continues to write professionally and is currently writing two books on creativity and leadership which are due to be published later this year. Her insights on leadership, work/life balance, stress, confidence and motivation can be heard regularly across the UK media.