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MARGARET HEFFERNAN is one of the UK’s most highly regarded thought leaders. She mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organizations, and is Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute’s Responsible Leadership Programme.

An entrepreneur, CEO, and keynote speaker, she is also the author of five previous books: Beyond Measure, A Bigger Prize, Wilful Blindness, Women on Top, and The Naked Truth. Her best-selling Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times and was shortlisted for the FT Business Book Award 2011.

In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn’t Everything and How We Do Better, described as “meticulously researched…engagingly written…universally relevant and hard to fault.” Her TED talks have been seen by over eleven million people and in 2015 TED published Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes.

Born in Texas, raised in Holland, and educated at Cambridge University, Margaret worked in BBC Radio for five years where she wrote, directed, produced, and commissioned documentaries and dramas. She has also written five plays. She was named one of the Internet’s Top 100 by Silicon Alley Reporter in 1999, one of the Top 25 by Streaming Media magazine, and one of the Top 100 Media Executives by The Hollywood Reporter. Her ‘Tear Down the Wall’ campaign against AOL won the 2001 Silver SABRE award for public relations. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bath and continues to write for the Financial Times and Huffington Post.

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