People pay the price you put on yourself.
Meggie Palmer is a corporate change agent. She’s focused on creating environments where individuals can thrive knowing they're leaving a legacy in the world.
A confidence creator, Meggie helps people see potential in themselves they never knew existed - and empowers them to uplift their teams as well. She teaches leaders the power of mindset in navigating any corporate change management experience.
As an award-winning journalist, she told stories that created awareness of global issues, inspired action and sparked change. As an entrepreneur, she has built a thriving business from the ground up — all while embodying the type of leadership that brings out the best in people and fosters a culture dedicated to uplifting others. She recently acquired her first company and is a passionate angel investor and Board member.
Meggie leads high-energy, interactive keynotes and is a sought-after MC. She draws from her one-of-a-kind experiences as a business leader and globe-trotting journalist to draw attention to the concept of leading with legacy — and why it’s an essential approach for leadership that drives results. Throughout her career in business and journalism, she's leveraged the power of values-based leadership and storytelling to promote progress within organisations and society.
Meggie spurs audience members to look within themselves and consider the legacy they want to leave in this world - and on others. She’ll encourage you to find your agency and own your “dash” — all of the time we have in between our first and last days on Earth to make an impact as leaders and change-makers. She encourages people to lead with legacy and leave a trail of good in their wake.
Meggie’s keynotes are interactive - she leads audiences through thought-provoking exercises encouraging conversation, connection and bringing high energy to any event.
She’ll share a step-by-step framework for how folks can live their values at work - whether you're a C-Suite leader or an individual contributor.
Expect upfront, direct advice and practical strategies you can implement at work the same day. She believes leaders who master storytelling are more successful at positively influencing people and outcomes, and shares profound stories from her foreign correspondent career and strategies from her work as an Executive for using storytelling as a vehicle for change in any endeavour.
Meggie is the founder and CEO of PepTalkHer, which offers corporate consulting and an App designed to level the playing field in the workplace and help organisations recruit, retain, and develop top talent.
What started as a side hustle has now positively impacted the lives of more than 60,000 professionals from all walks of life. Through her company, she runs corporate leadership programming for Fortune 500 companies and leading brands, including Salesforce, JP Morgan and LinkedIn.
Previously, she was an award-winning journalist and foreign affairs correspondent for BBC World, CNBC, and SBS Dateline. She has travelled the world, interviewing world leaders and iconic public figures, from Bashar Al-Assad, who was in his palace in Syria, to Brad Pitt, who was on the red carpet in Paris. Her films won New York Festival TV & Film Awards, UN Media Awards, a Walkley award and a Logie nomination.
In addition to being a Tory Burch Fellow and the recipient of a grant from Sara Blakely’s Spanx Foundation, Palmer serves on several boards and is a passionate angel investor with a special focus on tech businesses and teams with a female or underrepresented founder. She also lectures at Columbia University and Barnard College on negotiation and confidence and is featured regularly in NBC, Vogue, and other leading media outlets.
Meggie is a proud Mom and an Aussie who now calls New York home.
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Leading with Legacy: The Values-Based Approach of Inspirational Leaders.
In addition to her highly successful career as a foreign correspondent, Meggie Palmer is a founder, CEO, and sought-after executive coach. She focuses on the often-overlooked aspects of transformational leadership - going within to find your North Star.Leading with Legacy: The Values-Based Approach of Inspirational Leaders.
This high-energy session is overflowing with actionable insights. It’ll change how audience members approach their work, life, and leadership. Palmer encourages each individual to consider the legacy they wish to leave in this world. The takeaways will become a guide for how the audience shows up as a leader, a colleague, a friend.
She’ll challenge your audience to consider the best and worst leaders they’ve experienced and to dig deep to recall their own leadership high and low points. From these data points, she’ll lead the audience through an interactive exercise to better understand what leadership legacy they want to leave in the world - and how they can tangibly implement that at work right away.
She teaches leaders the power of mindset in navigating any corporate change management experience. No matter how junior or senior you are in your career, Palmer’s defining message is for everyone to own the “dash” — the time between our first and last days on Earth. She encourages folks to be intentional about the lasting impact they desire to have on people as leaders. She encourages the audience to lead with legacy and leave a trail of good in their wake.
A confidence creator, Meggie helps people see potential in themselves they never knew existed - and empowers them to uplift their teams as well. Expect to leave excited and inspired to become the leader you aspire to be! You’ll learn the Leading with Legacy Framework, which helps you clarify:
•How to define what you want your Leadership Legacy to be
• The ways in which you can begin to lead with a values-first approach at work
• Tangible action steps to take at work today to live your values and inspire your teams to step up too
What’s Your Headline? Storytelling as a Tool for Leadership and Business Transformation.
Steve Jobs said: “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.” Meggie Palmer agrees.What’s Your Headline? Storytelling as a Tool for Leadership and Business Transformation.
In this keynote, award-winning foreign correspondent and leadership and communications expert Meggie Palmer opens audiences’ eyes to the power of storytelling and why she believes it’s the single most effective vehicle for change - in business, leadership and broader society.
In her career as a journalist and more recently as a founder and CEO, Meggie has leveraged the art of storytelling to create change. She has seen first hand interviewing global leaders, politicians and change makers how leveraging your story allows you to set agendas, inspire teams to perform and lead people to leave the world a better place. She’ll inspire you to lean into your story essence, too, and teach you to craft a compelling narrative.
During this session, she leads audiences through interactive activities so audiences can answer the question: What’s Your Headline? After identifying life and career high points, low points and turning points, folks will leave this session able to name their secret sauce and with a clear elevator pitch to differentiate their company, brand and themselves.
Identifying and writing your own personal headline gives you clarity on how you can use storytelling as a means for engaging and inspiring teams - and to create a more memorable personal brand.
Emphasising authenticity and emotional connection, Meggie prepares participants to unleash the power of storytelling to drive business success and elevate their impact as a leader.
MC, Host & Facilitator
A versatile presence on stage, Meggie brings her live tv and media experience to the stage. She was an experienced award-winning television foreign correspondent for BBC World, CNBC and SBS Dateline.MC, Host & Facilitator
Meggie has emceed conferences and events for brands including Salesforce, LinkedIn, and UBS Bank. She’s live interviewed guests, including Spanx's Sara Blakely, the U.S. Women's Soccer Team, and Fortune 500 board members, as well as world leaders including Bashar Al Assad in his palace in Damascus and pop culture icons like Brad Pitt and Will Ferrel on the red carpet in Paris.
She'll make your audience feel at home, will bring high-energy engagement from the stage and promises to draw out fascinating stories, insights, and perspectives from subject matter experts and panel participants.
An experienced CEO and formerly a VP at the Financial Times, Meggie is second to none when it comes to asking questions that get to the heart of the issues that matter most to audiences and facilitating conversations to ensure each participant has sufficient opportunities to have their viewpoint heard.
You'll never need to stress about how she'll handle last-minute changes and glitches given her decades in live television reporting — your event is in stellar hands!
The Art of Confidence.
In her mission to close the gender and leadership gaps in the workplace, PepTalkHer founder Meggie Palmer has discovered yet another gap that stands in the way for many people on the path to success: the confidence gap. In this high-energy, inspiring talk, Palmer identifies the circumstances leading to crushed confidence in individuals in the workplace and how they result in teams falling short of reaching their potential and meeting their business objectives if left unaddressed. The Art of Confidence.
Exhibiting the perfect dose of candour and practicality to engage and inspire the audience, Palmer paints a picture of what it means to be truly confident and outlines an actionable framework that people can instantly begin to apply to overcome imposter syndrome, master the art of confidence, achieve beyond their potential, and lead their teams to success. Expect tangible action steps your audience can put into effect that day. She'll guide your audience to feel in control of their future and teach them how to steer their confidence and their careers in a direction they love.
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Meggie Palmer | Show Reel | Saxton Speakers Bureau
Meggie Palmer is a confidence creator. Her infectious positivity motivates everyone she interacts with - the CEOs she coaches, the audiences she speaks to globally and the millennials she trains to overcome imposter syndrome. A high energy leader, facilitator and inspirational speaker, Meggie is on a mission to close the pay gap. She is the Founder & CEO of PepTalkHer - a passionate and devoted community of more than 15,000 people globally. For more on Meggie check out her profile on our website: https://www.saxton.com.au/speakers/meggie-palmer Saxton has been representing the world's leading thought leaders for over 50 years. We specialise in providing perfect speakers and entertainers for any event or conference. With a long history of quality service, be sure to contact us to experience the Saxton Difference: https://www.saxton.com.au/enquire/ Check us out on Social Media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaxtonSpeakers Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SaxtonSpeakersBureau/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saxtonspeakers/ Subscribe to our channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/SaxtonSpeakersBureauPepTalkHer grows with Salesforce Essentials
Great customer relationships make great companies. See how PepTalkHer manages customers better to find their best business. Learn more at getessentials.comMaggie Palmer on Success, Promotions & Pay Equity | Saxton Speakers
In this video, Meggie Palmer, founder of PepTalkHer, dives into the power of “writing your success story” by actively steering your career, celebrating achievements, and crafting a future that aligns with your values. Meggie explains the mission behind PepTalkHer, a platform dedicated to empowering individuals to elevate their careers, achieve promotions faster, and secure better pay. With her background as a journalist and foreign correspondent, Meggie shares her personal experience with pay inequality, which ultimately inspired her to build the PepTalkHer app. Through insights from her journey, Meggie reflects on the value of tough, value-driven decisions and the importance of taking ownership of your professional path. She highlights that although career progression can feel restrictive, taking charge of actions—such as strategically using LinkedIn—can increase visibility and open new opportunities. Meggie’s message is one of empowerment and resilience, reminding viewers that they have the ability to make deliberate, impactful choices at every stage. Join her in exploring how to navigate career challenges, celebrate wins, and make purposeful strides toward a fulfilling future.Negotiating your next pay rise | Meggie Palmer - Vogue Codes | Saxton Speakers
For the third instalment of Vogue Codes Virtual, PepTalkHer's Meggie Palmer spoke with Vogue's digital editorial director Julia Frank about how confidence can help you negotiate your next pay rise. Meggie Palmer is a confidence creator. Her infectious positivity motivates everyone she interacts with - the CEOs she coaches, the audiences she speaks to globally and the millennials she trains to overcome imposter syndrome. A high energy leader, facilitator and inspirational speaker, Meggie is on a mission to close the pay gap. She is the Founder & CEO of PepTalkHer - a passionate and devoted community of more than 15,000 people globally.How to Develop Diverse Talent with Meggie Palmer of PepTalkHer | Saxton Speakers
Meggie Palmer, Founder & CEO of PepTalkHer, believes that everyone in the world has the capacity to make change. Hear how she works with Fortune 500 companies to help them recruit, retain, and develop talent from diverse backgrounds.Meggie Palmer Interviews Michael Hurwitz at the Green Conference
Meggie Palmer discusses the future of transport with Michael Hurwitz, director of transport innovation at Transport for London.Audio
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The presentation blew the entire room away! Phenomenal
Meggie is a phenomenal source of wisdom and an invaluable resources for companies. Not only is she well versed in what it takes to be a great leader in today's economy, she's an expert that takes the mystery and confusion out of the challenges women face in the workforce. I have found Meggie incredibly sensitive and insightful when it comes to speaking to our employees, leading coaching and training and has been instrumental in helping our employees find their voice.
Meggie is a dynamic speaker with a wealth of knowledge. Her international experiences help her to develop content suitable for any audience. Meggie was a keynote speaker for the 2019 Stateof Talent Conference and received praised-reviews from ouraudience. It has been a pleasure working with her.
Meggie Palmer is a vibrant and engaging speaker! For her most recent engagement with QUT, she managed to create a strong connection with an audience of several hundred teenage girls and boys at the end of a long day ... no easy task. She was refreshingly honest and gave hilarious anecdotes about her career in journalism. Her ability to laugh at herself was appreciated by the students. Her vulnerability in sharing her own hardships as a teen struck a chord with the audience. Meggie took instructions from us and stuck to the brief we provided. She was on message yet still creative in her approach to her story and how she interacted with the audience We would have no hesitation in recommending her to other corporate organization.
