About the author

Heather Townsend helps professionals become the Go-To Expert. She is the co-author of The Go-To Expert and How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life, and a high-profile member of the professional services industry. Over the last decade, Heather has worked with over 300 partners, and coached, trained and mentored over 2,000 professionals at every level of the world’s most ambitious professional practices.

Heather is a full member of the Professional Speaking Association. She speaks regularly at large conferences within the professional services sector. In 2011 and 2012 Heather judged the British Accountancy Awards. In 2013 Heather was voted by the ICAEW’s economia magazine one of the top 50 influencers on social media for finance ...

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