Featured Experts
Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the faculty director of the MIT Leadership Center. She is also a coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed (with Henrik Bresman).
Richard Boyatzis is a Distinguished University Professor, and a professor in the departments of Organizational Behavior and Psychology Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University, where his MOOC “Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence,” has over 400,000 participants from over 200 countries. He is a coauthor of Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (with Daniel Goleman and Annie McKee), as well as Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion (with Annie Mckee) and Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness (with Annie McKee and Fran Johnston).
Jeanne Brett is the DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and the director of the Kellogg School’s Dispute Resolution Research Center. She is the author of Negotiating Globally: How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultural Boundaries and a coauthor (with William Ury and Stephen B. Goldberg) of Getting Disputes Resolved: Designing Systems to Cut the Costs of Conflict.
Dorie Clark is a marketing strategist and professional speaker who teaches at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future and Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It. She is currently writing a book on being an entrepreneur for Harvard Business Review Press. You can access her free articles at dorieclark.com
Ben Dattner is an executive coach and the founder of Dattner Consulting in New York City. He is also the author of The Blame Game: How the Hidden Rules of Credit and Blame Determine Our Success or Failure.
Liane Davey is the cofounder of 3COze Inc. She is the author of You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done and a coauthor (with David S. Weiss and Vince Molinaro) of Leadership Solutions: The Pathway to Bridge the Leadership Gap. Follow her on Twitter: @LianeDavey.
Susan David, PhD, a founder of the Harvard affiliated Institute of Coaching and CEO of Evidence Based Psychology, is an internationally recognized leader operating at the nexus of business and psychology. She routinely consults, speaks, and coaches at the most senior levels of Fortune 500 organizations and influential not-for-profits. She is the author of Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life and coauthor of the definitive Oxford Handbook of Happiness (with Ilona Boniwell and Amanda Conley Ayers) and Beyond Goals: Effective Strategies for Coaching and Mentoring (with David Clutterbuck and David Megginson).
Karen Dillon is the author of the HBR Guide to Office Politics and a coauthor of Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice (with Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, and David S. Duncan) and How Will You Measure Your Life? (with Clayton M. Christensen and James Allworth). She is the former editor of Harvard Business Review. Follow her on Twitter: @DillonHBR.
Nathanael Fast is an associate professor of management at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He studies power and status in groups and organizations.
Keith Ferrazzi is the CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a research-based consulting and coaching company, and the author of Never Eat Alone and the #1 best seller Who’s Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success—and Won’t Let You Fail.
Adam Galinsky is the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business and the chair of the Management Department at the Columbia Business School. He is the coauthor (with Maurice Schweitzer) of Friend and Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both. His research focuses on leadership, power, negotiations, decision making, and ethics.
Mark Gerzon is the author of Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities and the president of the Mediators Foundation.
Judith E. Glaser is the CEO of Benchmark Communications and the chairman of the Creating WE Institute. She is the author of six books, including Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization and Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results.
Daniel Goleman is a codirector of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University, a coauthor (with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee) of Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, and the author of Focus: The Hidden Driver of Success, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights, and Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence, Selected Writings.
Joseph Grenny is a cofounder of VitalSmarts, an innovator in corporate training and leadership development, and a coauthor of Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High and Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior (with Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler), as well as Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change and Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success (with Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler).
Linda Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is a coauthor of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader (with Kent Lineback) and Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation (with Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback).
Pamela Hinds is a professor in management science and engineering at Stanford University. She studies the dynamics of globally distributed work teams and writes about issues of culture, language, and the transfer of work practices in global collaborations.
Jonathan Hughes is a partner at Vantage Partners, a global consultancy that advises companies on complex B2B negotiations, strategic alliances, customer and supplier partnerships, and organizational transformation.
Amy Jen Su is a cofounder and managing partner of Paravis Partners, a boutique executive coaching and leader ship development firm. She is a coauthor (with Muriel Maignan Wilkins) of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence.
Roderick Kramer is the William R. Kimball Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business, a coeditor (with Todd Pittinsky) of Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders, and a coeditor (with George Goethals, Scott Allison, and David Messick) of Conceptions of Leadership.
Katie Liljenquist is on the faculty of Brigham Young University’s Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy. She studies decision making and interpersonal influence.
Muriel Maignan Wilkins is a cofounder and managing partner of Paravis Partners, a boutique executive coaching and leadership development firm. She is a coauthor (with Amy Jen Su) of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence.
Jean-François Manzoni is the president and Nestlé Professor at IMD. He is a coauthor (with Jean-Louis Barsoux) of The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail.
Annie McKee is a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, the director of the PennCLO Executive Doctoral Program, and the founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute. She is a coauthor of Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis), as well as Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion (with Richard Boyatzis), and Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness (with Richard Boyatzis and Fran Johnston). She is also the author of the forthcoming How to Be Happy at Work: The Power of Purpose, Hope, and Friendship.
Erin Meyer is a professor specializing in cross-cultural management at INSEAD. She is the author of The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Bound aries of Global Business. Follow her @Erin Meyer INSEAD.
Mark Mortensen is an associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD. His work focuses on the changing nature of collaboration, particularly fluid, interdependent, and global teams.
Gary Namie is the founder of the Workplace Bullying Institute. He is a coauthor (with Ruth F. Namie) of The Bully-Free Workplace: Stop Jerks, Weasels, and Snakes from Killing Your Organization and The Bully at Work: What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Dignity on the Job.
Jeffrey Pfeffer is Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is the author of Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time, and Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t.
Anna Ranieri is a career counselor, an executive coach, and a coauthor (with Joe Gurkoff) of How Can I Help? What You Can (and Can’t) Do to Counsel a Friend, Colleague, or Family Member with a Problem.
Dr. John Ratey is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of A User’s Guide to the Brain. He is also a coauthor of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (with Eric Hagerman) and Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood, Answers to Distraction, and Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most Out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder (with Edward M. Hallowell, MD).
Robert Sutton is a professor of management science and engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is a cofounder and active member of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the “d.school”). He is author or coauthor of six books, including Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best . . . and Learn from the Worst and The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t, and Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less (with Huggy Rao).
Brian Uzzi is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and the codirector of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). He is a coauthor (with Shannon Dunlap) of the Harvard Business Review article “Make Your Enemies Your Allies.”
Caroline Webb is the author of How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life. She is also CEO of the coaching firm Sevenshift and a senior adviser to McKinsey & Company.
Holly Weeks is a communications consultant, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the author of Failure to Communicate: How Conversations Go Wrong and What You Can Do to Right Them.
Jeff Weiss is a partner at Vantage Partners, a global consultancy specializing in corporate negotiations, relationship management, partnering, and complex change management. He serves on the faculties of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he is also the codirector of the West Point Negotiation Project. He is author of the HBR Guide to Negotiating.
Judith White is a visiting associate professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Her research focuses on gender and diversity in groups, multidisciplinary teams, narcissism and negotiation, and conflict management.
Michele Woodward is a Master Certified Coach who coaches executives and trains other coaches.