Meggie Palmer

Founder & CEO PepTalkHer

My mission is to close the gender pay & leadership gap. What started as a side hustle has grown to a thriving global business with a strong community of 60,000 aspirational, professional womxn. We've been featured in Vogue, Forbes & NBC to name a few.

We partner with Employers of choice, helping them recruit, retain and promote top talent. Among our clients, Fortune 500 companies including JP Morgan, Salesforce & HSBC. We help companies move to 50/50 women in leadership.

We provide content & programming on topics like negotiation & overcoming imposter syndrome. Our curriculum works - increasing skill confidence by 35% after the first session as well as NPS.

I'm a Tory Burch Fellow & was the recipient of a grant from Sara Blakley's Spanx Foundation.

I founded PepTalkHer after my own experience of inequality during my time as a journalist (remind me to spill the details sometime...!)

We built the free PepTalkHer App & launched it as a Vogue event in 2019. It helps make performance review time easy. The prompts help you track success, build confidence & negotiate. (Think of it as a FitBit - but for your career)
The results of been extraordinary - from a $4 an hour raises to a whopping $84,000 raise.
(Ready to level up your career? Head to www.peptalkher.com/challenge)

I serve on several boards and am a passionate angel investor. I focus on tech businesses and teams with a female and/or under represented founder. I love doing good things with good people.

In my former life, I was a foreign correspondent. I spent more than a decade working as a journalist for BBC World, CNBC & Dateline. My films won New York Festival TV & Film Awards, UN Media Awards, a Walkley Award & a Logie nomination.

I've interviewed Brad Pitt on the red carpet, Bashar Al Assad in his Palace in Damascus & I once had the fun task of speaking on stage after Obama.

I lecture at Columbia University & Barnard College on negotiation & confidence. I also speak globally at events like Dreamforce, Vogue Codes & Nico Rosberg’s Greentech In Berlin.

I write features & opinion pieces for Vogue, Marie Claire, NewsCorp, Women's Agenda on equality & negotiation www.meggiepalmer.com

Before founding PepTalkHer, I was VP Business Development & Content Partnerships for the Financial Times, working with brands like Barclays & IBM to create high impact content for C Suite Executives.