Margaret Heffernan

Five-time CEO and Fast Company columnist

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Biography

Margaret Heffernan was born in Texas, and grew up in Holland and the U.K. She worked for thirteen years as a producer for BBC Radio and Television before running her first company. She has since been CEO of five different businesses in the United States and United Kingdom. She has been acknowledged ...

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Margaret Heffernan was born in Texas, and grew up in Holland and the U.K. She worked for thirteen years as a producer for BBC Radio and Television before running her first company. She has since been CEO of five different businesses in the United States and United Kingdom. She has been acknowledged as one of the top industry executives by the Silicon Alley Reporter, Streaming Media, and the Hollywood Reporter. She speaks regularly at industry and business school conferences and has appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and Marketplace, as well as on CNN, CNBC, and the BBC. She sits on the board of several private companies, is a regular contributor to Real Business and Fast Company magazines, is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, and is a visiting professor of entrepreneurship at the School of Management at Simmons College in Boston.

Check out Margaret Heffernan’s website at www.mheffernan.com.

 
Speaking Topics
  • The Entrepreneurial Organization
    How can large established corporations become innovative and entrepreneurial?
  • How She Does It
    What makes women such successful entrepreneurs?
  • Do I Have to Go to Girl School?
    How men and women differ in business—and what they have to learn from each other
  • Exit Strategies
    You’ve built a successful business and now you want to get out. But leaving can kill your business. What is the winning endgame?
  • Power in a Networked World
    How to gain power at work when you’re not at the top
  • How High Can You Go?
    Do work and life have to conflict—or can men and women both have it all?
  • The New Work
    How life builds careers and careers make home work better
  • The Thinking Deficit
    Why do smart companies hire smart people and then turn them stupid—and what can be done about it?

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