Welcome! I'm Steve Blears

I’m Steve Blears, director of Bit Famous, where we help organisations drive growth and engagement through confident communication.

I work alongside our MD, Penny Haslam, on the learning and development side of the business, helping HR, L&D and people leaders find practical support for building workplace confidence, visibility, influence and impact.

My role covers content strategy, client onboarding, proposal development, programme planning, newsletters, marketing, PR, award nominations and digital visibility across bitfamous.co.uk and pennyhaslam.co.uk, our main portal for speaking enquiries.

Over the past five years, the strategies we’ve used have helped generate steadily growing enquiries from qualified leads, more than 1.9 million Google search impressions a year and thousands of monthly downloads for our business podcasts and newsletters. 

Before Bit Famous, I worked in BBC journalism and factual television. I started in BBC Local Radio at GLR before working as a reporter for Radio 1 Newsbeat, Radio 5 Live and Radio 4. I then moved into TV as a producer/director, filming and producing programmes including The One Show, Watchdog, Bangers & Cash and other factual and documentary series.