blairepalmer

Member Since: 6th Nov 2015

Columnist

Bio

“Agent provocateur”, Blaire Palmer, is a former BBC Today programme journalist who, for the last 15 years, has been coaching and provoking CEOs and leadership teams to step up and drive change in their organisations.

The author of 3 books on leadership and success, Blaire was one of the first accredited executive coaches in Europe. Blaire founded That People Thing in 2012 and now works with clients including Roche, Airbus, Mattel, DX and Manchester United, designing and delivering programmes that bring about sustainable change in leadership and culture with measureable commercial benefit.

Direct, challenging, warm and funny, Blaire is also is a keynote conference speaker, addressing audiences around the world about how leadership is changing in the 21st century.

Blaire Palmer

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That People Thing

13th Dec 2018

Why change programmes fail in their tracks

Organisational change is fraught with issues, but it's not the process that presents the greatest challenge, it's getting employees to...

Culture

20th Sep 2018

Leadership: why it's time to ditch hierarchical decision-making

Too many organisations are still hung up on traditional hierarchical decision-making structures. In order to effect real change, it's time...

Culture

23rd Aug 2018

Employee engagement: 'motivation' is dead, it's time to find new ways to empower your team

'Motivation' used to be all the rage when it came to employee engagement, but today's workforce needs a more subtle approach that takes...

Talent

17th Jul 2018

Professional development: the team is dead but we still need to engage employees

Traditional team structures have dissolved. In their place, we have more a more complex organisational matrix, which presents challenges...

Strategy

24th May 2018

It's official: business is no longer a competition

The industrial age created an economy based on competition, but in the digital age the business landscape is far more nuanced than that...

Strategy

3rd Nov 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...

Culture

2nd Mar 2016

What exactly is wrong with Boards?

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

Strategy

6th Jan 2016

The times are changing… are you ready?

When I started working, typewriters, Tipp-Ex and carbon paper were the norm, internal mail was delivered twice a day by a young man with a...

Culture

2nd Dec 2015

Leaders are doing way too much and it’s all the wrong stuff

An HRD I know hangs out at reception from 7.55 in the morning in the hope that she will catch her CEO as he arrives. The walk between his...

Culture

9th Nov 2015

Takeaways are bad for your health

There are a few words in the English language that set my teeth on edge. Moist. Membury (the name of one of the services on the M4)...

Training