If I could change just one thing to make a significant difference to business what would it be. There was no contest.

The answer is Leadership. Professionally I spend my life among people in Leadership positions – but I meet very few leaders. It may be a critical distinction in my view – but was that just a personal prejudice? Maybe I had just met the wrong people. Our company’s strap line is “The Science of Psychology” meaning that everything we do in underpinned by tried-and-tested methodologies just “facts” or as close as the art/science of psychology will allow to get.

Accordingly and in order to validate (or indeed invalidate) my perception that leadership was poor we commissioned an opinion poll from by CCB Research. They interviewed over 1,500 people from every kind of business from SME to Mid-Size to Fortune 500. The one thing the respondents all had in common was “leaders”.

The results were astounding. The headline is that only 15% of respondents thought they were remotely well led. You can see some more details of the poll here.

The real worry is that most people think it’s normal! I wish I had a penny for every time I’ve heard that “leaders are born, not made”. As if we had to hang about on the off chance that a charismatic leader figure might emerge!

This is serious stuff. It’s been estimated that bad leadership costs this country about £6bn a YEAR. If we said that bad ACCOUNTING was costing this country even £1bn a year there would be an outcry. Heads would roll.

Well that’s real money, isn’t it? Well leadership costs money too. It costs money to train them – but not as much as it costs not to.

Ros is a leading UK psychologist, successful businesswoman, an accomplished author and a TV and radio presenter.

Ros travels the world developing the potential of employees through Transform! which she formulated. A creative academic, Ros is a chartered clinical psychologist, coach, trainer and regular speaker on the conference circuit. She has recently presented in the USA, China and completed a lecture tour in Japan.

She has developed a unique style of coaching, which achieves major insights and shifts in thinking as well as creating a vision for personal and business success. Ros draws on her background as a psychologist to facilitate creative developmental strategies that move people on to become more than they would ever have believed possible.

Business experience includes development work with Royal Bank of Scotland, Trade and Invest UK, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, ExxonMobil, NatWest Bank, McKinsey, Standard Life Investments, Tech Group Ireland, Cayman Islands Government, The Spirit Group and Shell International.

Conference experience includes Master of Ceremonies for the Institute of Directors, keynote speaker for Industrial Relation Services (IRS), Scottish Enterprise Conferences, Everywoman Business Women on the Move Conferences and IBM's Lets Step Up Conference. A large number of companies – legal firms, accountants, public utilities, private banks - have all called upon Ros to motivate and inspire staff.

Presentation topics include from "transform yourself for business success", “becoming stress free", “increasing confidence and creativity” and “handling difficult people”. Newspapers have described her as "the guru of personal development" and "the best motivational speaker heard this year",

Ros broadcasts regularly on Radio and has presented a Social Science research programme 'Between Ourselves' for BBC Radio Scotland for two years. She was a presenter for five years on a nightly television news programme. Other TV and Radio work include the BBC, BBC Scotland, BBC Radio 5, BBC Radio Scotland, Scottish Television, GMTV, LWT, ITN News, Sky News, Channel 4 and E4.

Ros features regularly in the national press and top magazines in her capacity as psychologist and advisor. Ros has also recently been nominated by The Independent on Sunday one of the top 10 coaches in Britain.