Stephanie Palmer

Stephanie Palmer is a consultant, development executive, and author. In 2005, she founded Good in a Room, a consulting company and blog that helps professionals inside and outside the film industry learn to pitch and advance their projects.

Film industry She started her career in the film industry as an unpaid intern on Titanic before becoming an assistant at Jerry Bruckheimer Films where she worked on Armageddon, Con Air, and Enemy of the State. After that, she moved to MGM where she became Director of Creative Affairs. In this position, she supervised the acquisition, development, and production of feature films including 21, Legally Blonde, Be Cool, The Brothers Grimm, Agent Cody Banks, Agent Cody Banks 2, A Guy Thing and Good Boy!

The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the top 35 executives under 35.

Good in a Room

Company In 2005, she left MGM and launched Good in a Room, a consulting company where she helps professionals inside and outside the film industry learn to pitch and advance their projects. William Morris Endeavor, Merrill Lynch, Disney, UCLA, University of Southern California, Warner Bros., National Speakers Association Graduate School, and the Great American Pitchfest. She also is the moderator for the American Film Market's Annual Pitch Conference.

Book and blog In 2008, she authored the book Good in a Room, published by Random House, which features several techniques to pitch or sell things. These techniques break down a pitch into parts and explain how to progress through a meeting.

In 2012, she launched the blog "Good in a Room." In her blog, she shows effective pitches from the film, TV, advertising, and venture capital industries and provides tips to help creative professionals learn to pitch more successfully. The Early Show on CBS, National Public Radio, Expert Access Radio, and in the Los Angeles Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Inc., The Atlantic, Speaker, and Script magazines.