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Blaire Plamer

Blaire Plamer

Blaire Plamer Future of Leadership, Keynote speaker | Organisational culture and leadership specialist

Blaire Plamer
Blaire Plamer's Biography

Blaire Palmer is the authority on disrupting the future of leadership, and wants to help you 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, Blaire 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. Blaire leaves her audiences feeling stimulated by fresh ideas and empowered to rethink their approach to work. Blaire spent a decade as one of the youngest female producers in the fast-paced environment of BBC’s Today programme, 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 and organisations such as Mattel, Airbus, Roche Pharmaceuticals, GSK, the FA, Havas Lynx, DX, Travis Perkins, the BBC and Rexel. Blaire is able to use her expertise working in such a diverse range of businesses to make sense of the way generative AI, hybrid working and 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. More than that, she proposes uniquely contemporary solutions for businesses whose workforce 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 four 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,  What's Wrong with Work: The five frustrations of work and how to fix them for good.  Her 2024 book, "Punks in Suits: How to lead the workplace reformation", is a provocative rallying cry for organisations to ask uncomfortable questions about how they work, and grapple with whether their approach is still fit for purpose in today's world.

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Punks in Suits: How to lead the workplace reformation by harnessing personal leadership


Seeking Expansiveness: Embracing individuality


A Brilliant Gamble: Busting the myths of change

Blaire Plamer
Blaire Plamer's Biography

Blaire Palmer is the authority on disrupting the future of leadership, and wants to help you 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, Blaire 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. Blaire leaves her audiences feeling stimulated by fresh ideas and empowered to rethink their approach to work.

Blaire spent a decade as one of the youngest female producers in the fast-paced environment of BBC’s Today programme, 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 and organisations such as Mattel, Airbus, Roche Pharmaceuticals, GSK, the FA, Havas Lynx, DX, Travis Perkins, the BBC and Rexel.

Blaire is able to use her expertise working in such a diverse range of businesses to make sense of the way generative AI, hybrid working and 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. More than that, she proposes uniquely contemporary solutions for businesses whose workforce 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 four 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, 

  • What's Wrong with Work: The five frustrations of work and how to fix them for good. 

Her 2024 book, "Punks in Suits: How to lead the workplace reformation", is a provocative rallying cry for organisations to ask uncomfortable questions about how they work, and grapple with whether their approach is still fit for purpose in today's world.

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STEVE HARDY

FORMER CEO, AXA PERSONAL LINES.

"I ENGAGED BLAIRE TO HELP ME IN A PROGRAMME TO TRANSFORM THE CULTURE AT AXA PERSONAL LINES. THE WHOLE PROCESS WAS INCREDIBLY INTENSIVE, TOUCHED OVER 2,000 EMPLOYEES AND TOOK AROUND A YEAR TO COMPLETE. SUCCESS WAS DEFINITELY ACHIEVED AS WE DEFINITELY MOVED THE CULTURE FROM THREE DISPARATE PARTS TO ONE EMPOWERED TEAM. I DON’T THINK WE WOULD HAVE ACHIEVED THE SUCCESS WE DID WITHOUT THE DETERMINED, CONSISTENT, HONEST AND CHALLENGING SUPPORT THAT BLAIRE AND HER TEAM BROUGHT TO THE PROJECT."

NICOLE HARDAKER

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COORDINATOR (EAIE)

"BLAIRE PALMER WAS EVERYTHING THE EAIE WANTED IN A LEADERSHIP SPEAKER. IN ONLY 45 MINUTES SHE WAS ABLE TO TURN EVERYONE’S PERCEPTIONS OF LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT ON ITS HEAD. BLAIRE WAS EXTREMELY RELEVANT AND WAS ABLE TO CLEARLY AND SIMPLY GET HER MESSAGE ACROSS TO OUR INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE. SHE IS A MUST HAVE FOR ANY CONFERENCE! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!"

PETAR CVETKOVIC

CHIEF EXECUTIVE, DX GROUP

"BLAIRE'S PRESENTATION WAS INSPIRING, RELEVANT, FRESH AND FUN. THERE WAS A GREAT SENSE OF COLLABORATION AT OUR TOP 100 LEADERS MEETING TODAY AND THAT WAS, IN NO SMALL WAY, DOWN TO THE THOUGHT-PROVOKING MESSAGES AND ENTHUSIASM THAT BLAIRE BROUGHT TO THE EVENT. JUST WHAT WE NEEDED."

KOSTA CHRISTOFI

SANTANDER UK

"BLAIRE OFFERS A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE IN HER FIELD, ALL RELEVANT TO TODAYS BUSINESS DEMANDS, AND COUPLED WITH AN ENGAGING, WARM AND THOUGHT- PROVOKING DELIVERY STYLE, HAS GIVEN ME AND MY COLLEAGUES SOME VALUABLE INSIGHTS AND ACTIONS TO TAKE AND MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE!"

DELEGATE

WELSH ASSEMBLY LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME

"I FEEL THAT UNDERTAKING THIS PROGRAMME HAS GREATLY IMPROVED MY PERFORMANCE. I WISH I COULD HAVE DONE THIS TWENTY YEARS AGO! I HAVE MET AND STILL MEET WITH COLLEAGUES THAT I HAVE ESTABLISHED A PROFESSIONAL BOND WITH, WHO I KNOW I CAN ALWAYS CALL UPON TO SHARE IDEAS AND OPINIONS"

BRUNO MEIJER

AIRBUS

"A VERY ENERGIZING, FRESH, RELEVANT EVEN PROVOKING BUT STILL ENTHUSIASTIC AND POSITIVE PRESENTATION. A WARM, SHARED SHOW BASED ON STRONG EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELD. A REAL INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER!"

DAIMA IRIS BOUDY GINIEBRA

CRG

"I DEEPLY BELIEVE BLAIRE HAS A GIFT AND IT IS TO INSPIRE PEOPLE AND MAKE THEM BELIEVE THEY ARE VALUED AND UNIQUE. BLAIRE TRANSFERS GOOD AND POSITIVE ENERGY THAT MAKE YOU FEEL YOUR WORTH. BLAIRE IS MAGICAL! THANK YOU BLAIRE FOR EVERYTHING PLEASE, KEEP INSPIRING PEOPLE AND BEING A ''BUSINESS MUSE!''

DAVID PLESTER

BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL

"WORKING WITH BLAIRE AND HER TEAM AS OUR BUSINESS HAS GROWN AND REPOSITIONED ITSELF TO BECOME A LEADING PROVIDER OF SUPPORT IN BUILT ASSET MANAGEMENT, HAS HELPED US BECOME CLEAR ABOUT OUR DIRECTION AND HOW TO OPERATE AS A SINGLE UNIT. OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM I BELIEVE HAVE BENEFITTED HUGELY FROM BLAIRE’S SUPPORT, USING A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS WE THOUGHT HARD ABOUT WHAT WE WERE HERE TO DO AND HOW WE WERE GOING TO DO IT. THE RESULTS WERE IMMEDIATE FOR US AS A TEAM AND FOR THE BUSINESS."