TERESA M. AMABILE is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She researches what makes people creative, productive, happy, and motivated at work. The author of two books and over 100 scholarly papers, she holds a doctorate in psychology from Stanford University.
JEAN-LOUIS BARSOUX is a term research professor at IMD.
CYRIL BOUQUET is a professor of strategy and innovation at IMD.
ADAM BRANDENBURGER holds positions as the J. P. Valles Professor at the Stern School of Business, Distinguished Professor at the Tandon School of Engineering, and faculty director of the Program on Creativity and Innovation at NYU Shanghai, all at New York University.
BROOKE BROWN-SARACINO received an MBA from the University of California, Davis.
ED CATMULL is cofounder of Pixar Animation Studios and president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios.
KIMBERLY D. ELSBACH is associate dean and a professor of organizational behavior at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis.
FRANCIS J. FLYNN is the Paul E. Holden Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
FRANCESCA GINO is a behavioral scientist and the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is the author of the books Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life (Dey Street Books, 2018) and Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).
ADAM GRANT is a professor at Wharton and the author of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Viking, 2016) and Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success (Viking, 2013).
CONSTANCE N. HADLEY is a lecturer in organizational behavior at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.
DAVID KELLEY is the founder and chairman of IDEO and the founder of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, where he is the Donald W. Whittier Professor in Mechanical Engineering.
TOM KELLEY is the coauthor of Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Crown Business, 2013) and a partner at IDEO, a global design and innovation firm.
STEVEN J. KRAMER is an independent researcher, writer, and consultant. He is a coauthor of the book The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011).
DOROTHY LEONARD is the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita at Harvard Business School and chief adviser of the consulting firm Leonard-Barton Group. She is the author or coauthor of four books, including Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company’s Deep Smarts (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015).
TONY MCCAFFREY is the chief technology officer of Innovation Accelerator.
CAROLINE O’CONNOR is a lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
JIM PEARSON is the CEO of Innovation Accelerator.
SARAH STEIN GREENBERG is the managing director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
SUSAAN STRAUS is an independent consultant based in Newton, Massachusetts, specializing in personal and organizational effectiveness. Her research has explored how cognitive preference and management style influence the effectiveness of leaders, managers, and teams in times of change.
MICHAEL WADE, PhD, is a professor of innovation and strategy at IMD and holds the Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation. He is the director of the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, an IMD and Cisco Initiative. His areas of expertise relate to strategy, innovation, and digital transformation.