Blaire Palmer

Member Since: 26th Nov 2015

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Bio

Blaire Palmer is CEO of That People Thing, a consultancy dedicated to inspiring leaders in fast-paced, ambitious businesses to drive change in their organisations in partnership with their people. Blaire has been described as a "secret weapon", a "business muse" and "that lady who does the leadership and team stuff". She is a regular guest expert on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show and has appeared on BBC Breakfast News and BBC Working Lunch.

Blaire Palmer

Author, speaker, agent provocateur for CEOs and their teams

That People Thing

5th May 2017

Leadership development isn't working. Why?

Blaire Palmer has been in the leadership development field for nearly two decades. And in that time she’s experienced plenty of fads. But...

Strategy

5th May 2017

What should modern leadership development look like?

Blaire Palmer has been in the leadership development field for nearly 2 decades. And in that time she’s experienced plenty of fads. But...

Strategy

16th Mar 2017

What the heck is wrong with meetings? [PART 2]

We spend 1/3 of our working week in meetings and at least 50% of that time is wasted. That’s about a day a week per employee. Multiply that...

Culture

16th Mar 2017

What the heck is wrong with meetings? [PART 1]

We spend approximately 1/3 of our week in meetings and about 50% of that time is wasted. That’s about a day a week per employee. Multiply...

People

10th Feb 2017

5 reasons we should stop talking about family friendly workplaces

In 1999 I talked to my then employer about an idea I had. I was training as a coach for leaders and teams and loving what I was learning...

Culture

24th Oct 2016

Are you a punk or are you a Punk?

Blaire Palmer is CEO of That People Thing , a consultancy dedicated to inspiring leaders in fast-paced, ambitious businesses to drive...

Future

14th Jul 2016

Come on, just get on and do it! Breaking apart a broken organisational structure

Blaire Palmer is CEO of That People Thing, a consultancy dedicated to inspiring leaders in fast-paced, ambitious businesses to drive change...

Culture

20th Apr 2016

Things managers do that they think are good for motivation but actually suck

Blaire Palmer is CEO of That People Thing , a consultancy dedicated to inspiring leaders in fast-paced, ambitious businesses to drive...

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