DOMINIC BARTON is the global managing partner of McKinsey & Company and a trustee of the Brookings Institution. He is coauthor of Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018).
DEBORAH BELL is a researcher of organizational behavior whose work focuses on leadership, drivers of success, and organizational effectiveness and dynamics, especially at the board level.
JOSEPH L. BOWER is the Donald Kirk David Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School and coauthor of the book Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011).
RICHARD P. CHAIT is a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education and coauthor of Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
RAM CHARAN has been an adviser to the CEOs of some of the world’s biggest corporations and their boards. He is a coauthor of Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018).
DAN CIAMPA is a former CEO, an adviser to boards and chief executives, and the author of five books, including Transitions at the Top: What Organizations Must Do to Make Sure New Leaders Succeed (with David L. Dotlich, Wiley, 2015) and Right from the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role (with Michael Watkins, Harvard Business Review Press, 1999).
SARAH CLIFFE is an executive editor at the Harvard Business Review.
GEORGE DAVIS was formerly the Global CEO & Board Practice Leader at Egon Zehnder and is currently the executive vice president of MacAndrews & Forbes.
BARBARA HACKMAN FRANKLIN served as the 29th U.S. secretary of commerce and is the president and CEO of Barbara Franklin Enterprises, a consulting firm that advises American companies doing business in international markets.
RADHAKRISHNAN GOPALAN is a professor at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.
BORIS GROYSBERG is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, faculty affiliate at the HBS Gender Initiative, and the coauthor, with Michael Slind, of Talk, Inc: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power their Organizations (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012).
LINDA A. HILL is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is author of Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership and coauthor of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader and Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation.
THOMAS P. HOLLAND is professor emeritus at the University of Georgia’s School of Social Work.
JOHN HORN is a senior lecturer at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.
STEFANIE K. JOHNSON is an associate professor of management and entrepreneurship at University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business and author of Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams (Harper Business, 2020).
ROBERT S. KAPLAN is a senior fellow and the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, emeritus, at Harvard Business School.
JAMES MANYIKA is the chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Company.
DANIEL MCGINN is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review.
ANETTE MIKES is an assistant professor in the accounting and management unit at Harvard Business School.
TODD MILBOURN is a vice dean and the Hubert C. & Dorothy R. Moog Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.
DAVID A. NADLER was an American organizational theorist, consultant and business executive, known for his work with Michael L. Tushman on organizational design and organizational architecture. He was founding director of the consultancy firm Organization Research and Consultation, which became the Delta Consulting Group, Inc., and then Mercer Delta Consulting, LLC, where he served as chairman. He died in 2015.
LYNN S. PAINE is the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is a coauthor of Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011).
DAVID PYOTT is a philanthropist and the former CEO of Allergan.
JEFFREY A. SONNENFELD is the senior associate dean for executive programs and the Lester Crown professor at the Yale School of Management. He is the founding CEO of Yale’s Executive Leadership Institute.
BARBARA E. TAYLOR is a senior consultant at the Academic Search Consultation Service in Washington, D.C. and coauthor of Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
SARAH KEOHANE WILLIAMSON is CEO of FCLT Global.