# Margaret Heffernan
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margaret heffernan (born 1955) is an entrepreneur, CEO, writer and keynote speaker. She is currently a Professor of Practice at the University of Bath School of Management in the UK.Heffernan is the former chief executive officer of five businesses and is the writer of five books that explores business and effective leadership. She teaches entrepreneurship, mentors executives as part of a leadership development company, and speaks to corporations, associations and universities about continuous innovation and the role leaders have helping newly hired employees.While Heffernan’s first two books focused on these issues and how they impact women in the workplace, her overarching theme is recognizing and releasing the talent that often lies buried inside organizations, under-valued and under-rewarded because it is unconventional.
#30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
Today, I’m joined by speaker, international executive and five-time author Margaret Heffernan. We discuss how to get the most out of our people, creating a thriving culture of trust and collaboration, and how to prevent potentially devastating “willful blindness.” Go Premium: Members get early …
When Career Success Feels Unfulfilling | Megan Hellerer
Megan Hellerer had done everything she was supposed to do. She went to Stanford, graduated with a 3.9, and dutifully climbed the ladder at Google. But the life that looked great on paper felt terrible inside. A panic attack on the floor of a public restroom forced her to confront a bigger question:…
The Headlines, the Hype and the Reality of Work with Brian Elliott
The headlines tell us work is broken.
One week it’s return-to-office mandates. The next it’s artificial intelligence. Then it’s another study claiming to have found the answer.
But what happens if the headlines are only telling part of the story?
In this episode of Workplace Geeks, Chris Moriarty i…
Institutional Wilful Blindness
If organisations know cyber risk is real, why do so many still fail to act before it’s too late?
In this first part of a two-part special on institutional wilful blindness, host Darragh is joined by leadership expert and author Margaret Heffernan, Professor Genevieve Liveley, Director of the Resear…
The State of Content Operations and an Expensive Way to Be Stupid Episode
This week, Ian and Cathy McKnight, Chief Problem Solver at Seventh Bear, discuss some research that she’s just published covering the State of Content Operations in 2026.
But first, they discuss Optimizely's recent retirement of the Digital Experience Platform (DXP) label, a prominent vendor in th…
Institutional Wilful Blindness: Part 2
If organisations understand cyber risk, what does it actually take to turn awareness into action?
In this second part of our two-part special on institutional wilful blindness, host Darragh continues the conversation with leadership expert and author Margaret Heffernan, Professor Genevieve Liveley,…
S5 | Act 1 - Reflection Section: When everything changes at once
What happens when conversations about AI, hybrid work, trust and leadership start pointing towards the same questions?
The Reflection Section returns to Workplace Geeks, this time with an episode of its own. As Act One of Series Five closes, Chris Moriarty revisits conversations with Dave Coplin, J…
154.Margaret Heffernan: Why Great Leadership Needs Friction, Doubt and Better Questions
(00:00:00) 154.Margaret Heffernan: Why Great Leadership Needs Friction, Doubt and Better Questions
(00:01:02) Why Leaders Love Failures
(00:04:04) Inspiration needs Friction
(00:09:08) From Inspiration to Next Steps
(00:12:46) Time and Cooling Off
(00:15:18) Efficiency Myth and Multitasking
(00:19:…
A Leadership Living Lab: The Future of Advice and Mentorship
A Leadership Living Lab: The Future of Advice and Mentorship | Episode 1
How do I advise my kid?
It's one of the questions futurists get asked most. What should they study? What skills will be in demand by the time they graduate? Honestly, it's the most approachable version of futurism there is, …
A Leadership Living Lab: Who We Trust and How We Receive Advice
My last episode was about giving advice. This one is about the other side: how we receive it.
I start with the type of advice. There's the advice you go looking for and the advice that shows up uninvited. Then there's the question of who you actually trust, and how you filter what's useful from wh…
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