HEIDI K. GARDNER is the author of the best-selling book Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos. A Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School, she was previously a professor at Harvard Business School and a consultant at McKinsey & Co. With Ivan Matviak, she co-founded the research and advisory firm Gardner & Collaborators.

Named by Thinkers 50 as a Next Generation Business Guru, Dr. Gardner is a sought-after advisor, keynote speaker, and facilitator for organizations across a wide range of industries globally. Altogether, she has authored (or coauthored) more than eighty books, chapters, case studies, and articles. Her research received the Academy of Management’s prize for Outstanding Practical Implications for Management, and has been selected multiple times for Harvard Business Review’s “best of” collections. Her research has been featured in major media outlets around the globe.

Dr. Gardner has lived and worked on four continents. She was a Fulbright Fellow and started her career at Procter & Gamble. She earned her BA in Japanese from the University of Pennsylvania (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude), a master’s degree from the London School of Economics, and a second master’s and PhD from London Business School.

IVAN A. MATVIAK has more than twenty-five years’ experience transforming complex global businesses through disciplined strategy, product innovation, operations optimization, and cross-silo collaboration.

Currently, Ivan is an executive vice president at Clearwater Analytics, a publicly traded fintech company. He worked as a senior advisor to Boston Consulting Group and the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. Ivan was previously an EVP at State Street Bank, serving as chairman and president of multiple fintech subsidiaries and Head of Americas for the bank’s data and analytics business.

Earlier in his career Ivan worked in Edinburgh, Johannesburg, London, New York, and Paris at the Bank of Scotland, Bain & Company, Walt Disney Company, and Procter & Gamble. Over his career Ivan launched and led multiple global businesses in consumer products, technology and finance. Presently Ivan is a board member for Boston Partners in Education and Historic Newton.

Ivan has coauthored several publications on collaboration and professional service firm strategy. He co-founded Gardner & Co. and co-developed its suite of technology-based collaboration tools including the Smart Collaboration Accelerator.

Ivan holds an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA and master’s in International Affairs from the Wharton Business School, and is a fellow at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for International Studies.