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Leadership thinker & bestselling author

Margaret Heffernan

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Challenge organisational blind spots with Margaret Heffernan, leadership thinker and bestselling business author. Margaret helps executives rethink competition, build collaborative cultures, and navigate uncertainty. Former CEO, TED speaker with 15M+ views, Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, and Financial Times-recognised author who mentors global leaders.

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Margaret Heffernan

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Business leader, former media CEO and digital pioneer
Bestselling author of seven books including Wilful Blindness
TED speaker whose talks have reached over 15 million viewers

Dr Margaret Heffernan is a business leader, author, and management thinker whose work explores how organisations confront uncertainty, lead through change, make better decisions, and build stronger, more resilient cultures. A former CEO and media executive, she is widely recognised for challenging conventional thinking about leadership, competition, and organisational success. Margaret produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years before leading multimedia companies in the United States, where The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the Top 100 Media Executives. She has written seven books examining leadership, change, and organisational behaviour, including Willful Blindness, which the Financial Times named one of the most important business books of the decade, and Uncharted, which became a bestseller and explored how leaders can navigate an unpredictable future. Her TED talks have reached over 15 million viewers. Margaret is Professor of Practice at the University of Bath and mentors CEOs and senior executives through Merryck & Co. She has also contributed to major public inquiries, and in 2023 was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame for her lasting contribution to management thinking. Her work examines how organisations overlook critical information, why excessive competition can undermine long term success, and how leaders can cultivate environments where collaboration, curiosity, and openness drive better decisions during periods of disruption and change. Audiences leave Margaret's presentations with practical frameworks for recognising blind spots in their organisations, specific techniques for building more collaborative and resilient teams, and strategies for leading effectively when the future cannot be predicted. Her research translates directly into actionable approaches that help organisations adapt, innovate, and manage change with greater confidence. Margaret brings evidence-based insights about organisational behaviour that challenge conventional thinking and offer practical alternatives to outdated management practices, helping leaders build organisations capable of thriving in uncertainty.

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Margaret's insights on navigating uncertainty have proven particularly valuable to senior teams facing complex change or long planning horizons. Her executive background and Thinkers50 Hall of Fame recognition give her unusual credibility with leaders who need clear thinking and practical perspective when the future is hard to map.

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We owe YOU a huge thank you. Your session was definitely the highlight of the day - everyone was so engaged and then talking about it at the drinks later on having received their books - inspiring stuff. We were very pleased with how the day went.

PwC

Margaret’s contribution at our annual strategic offsite was outstanding – we could not have wished for a more thought provoking and insightful presentation. We had expected that she would hit some of the topics that we have built our change initiatives around – but little did we expect that our approaches would be this close. Our colleagues who were there also agreed with the majority rating her session as the one of the most valuable of our offsite.

Allianz, Allianz

Margaret joined our first ever strategic sales summit and she was, quite simply, amazing. She is an incredibly charming and engaging speaker but she also rounds that out with great content and prpper emphasis. She articulated the importance of teamwork in a new and fresh way that really resonated with our audience of over 300 people. After the event, we surveyed the audience and Margaret had the highest score of any speaker at the event. If you are ever looking for an inspiring yet substantive speaker, look no further than Margaret Heffernan.

Microsoft

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