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Baroness Patience Wheatcroft is a life peeress and former editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal Europe. She has held a number of non-executive directorships, including at Barclays plc, the British Museum, St. James's Place plc, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

For most of her career, Patience was a journalist. She began her national newspaper career with the Daily Mail and worked on a number of different titles before becoming Business Editor of The Times. After nine years in that role, she took on the editorship of the Sunday Telegraph. Later, she decided to see what business was like from the other side, and joined the boards of Barclays plc and property company, Shaftesbury. She returned to journalism, editing the Wall Street Journal Europe, but stepped down after joining the House of Lords in January 2011.

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The QDI Principle in action

How our methodology helped this FTSE 100 drive agility

We helped a global consumer goods company to adopt the QDI Principle, fuelling faster, smarter, and more focused decision making.

“There are three questions every board should ask. Do I really know what is going on? Are we focusing on the right things? And are we asking the right questions?”

~ Executive, Reckitt (FTSE 100)

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