New Chair For I AM WOMAN Business Clubs

CARDIFF, Wales - Sept. 10, 2014 - PRLog -- Hilarie Owen began her career as a political scientist before going into the corporate world. In the 1980’s joining IBM and progressing to Marketing Manager UK, then developing a new business strategy, turned a large international publishing company around increasing its turnover by 600%. Then moving into the Government’s Dept of Trade & Industry to bring education and industry together.

She broadened to consultancy and went on to run her own business for 12 years working with boards of directors in a multitude of companies.  For two years she studied the world- class RAF Red Arrows to establish what made a high performing team even when members change that resulted in her first book. Her eight books have sold globally including China. During this time she worked throughout Europe, the US, S.Africa and the Middle East. Hilarie has taught at Cranfield, Ashridge, Cardiff and Manchester Business Schools.

In 2005 Hilarie was acknowledged for her work at Woman of the Year in London and in 2006 Distinguished Professor Warren Bennis invited her to Harvard to explore whether leadership can be taught and share best ways people learn leadership with him and others.

Since then, Hilarie has been team mentoring boards of directors and was commissioned to research and write a report on developing fast growth companies for a Parliamentory Select Committee. Hilarie’s work now focuses on how people actually learn leadership using the latest ground breaking research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology with the Institute of Leadership.

Cheryl Bass creator and MD of I AM WOMAN commented “we are delighted to have Hilarie on board with I AM WOMAN and look forward to drawing upon her expertise in I AM WOMAN as we roll out our Business Clubs across the UK”.