Stephanie Palmer

Stephanie Palmer coaches business leaders, senior executives and established creative professionals from a wide variety of industries to help them get their ideas the attention and financing they deserve.

In her tenure as the Director of Creative Affairs at MGM Pictures, Palmer acquired screenplays, books, articles and pitches and supervised their development. Some of her projects include Mad Money, 21, Be Cool, Legally Blonde, Sleepover, A Guy Thing, Good Boy, Agent Cody Banks and Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London.

Prior to MGM, she worked in development at Jerry Bruckheimer Films on Con Air, Armageddon and Enemy of the State. Her first job in the film business was as an unpaid intern on the Academy Award-winning Titanic.

Palmer has presented workshops and seminars for many organizations, companies and universities, including Merrill Lynch Business Development Programs, University of Southern California, American Film Market, the Asia Media Festival, National Speaker's Association Graduate School and the International Creativity Conference.

Additionally, she has been featured on NBC's Today, CBS's Early Show, National Public Radio and in the Los Angeles Times. She serves as an advisor for the American Screenwriting Association, Carnegie Mellon University's Masters of Entertainment Industry Management Program, and the Producing Program at UCLA. She supports Habitat for Humanity and The Fulfillment Fund.