Amy Bernstein, Women at Work cohost, is the editor of Harvard Business Review and vice president and executive editorial director of Harvard Business Publishing. Follow her on Twitter @asbernstein2185.
Sarah Green Carmichael, Women at Work cohost (seasons 1–2), is an editor and columnist at Bloomberg Opinion and a former executive editor at Harvard Business Review. Follow her on Twitter @skgreen.
Amy Gallo, Women at Work cohost, is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review and the author of the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017) and Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022). She writes and speaks about workplace dynamics. Watch her TEDx talk on conflict and follow her on Twitter @amyegallo.
Nicole Torres, Women at Work cohost (seasons 1–4), is an editor at Bloomberg Opinion based in London and a former senior editor at Harvard Business Review.
Rania H. Anderson is an international keynote speaker, author, and executive business coach who transforms the way men and women work together. She is the author of WE: Men, Women, and the Decisive Formula for Winning at Work and Undeterred.
Nina A. Bowman is a managing partner at Paravis Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm. She is an executive coach to senior-level leaders and leadership teams, and publicly speaks on issues of strategic leadership, leadership presence, interpersonal effectiveness, and career development. She is also a contributing author to the HBR Guide to Coaching Employees (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014) and the HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019).
Jodi-Ann Burey is a sought-after speaker and writer who works at the intersections of race, culture, and health equity. She is the creator and host of Black Cancer, a podcast about the lives of people of color told through their cancer journeys. Her TEDx talk, “The Myth of Bringing Your Full Authentic Self to Work,” embodies her disruption of traditional narratives about racism at work.
Pamela Carlton is the president of Springboard, a consultancy on cross-cultural leadership, and the coauthor of the research report Eve of Change: Women Redefining Corporate America. She earned JD and MBA degrees at Yale and was a managing director in investment banking at JPMorgan Chase. Prior to that, she was at Morgan Stanley.
Brianna Barker Caza is an associate professor of management in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, is a behavioral economist and faculty chair of the Executive Leadership Research Initiative for Women and Minority Attorneys at Harvard Law School (CLP) and Harvard Kennedy School (WAPPP). In addition to her work in academia, she is the CEO of a niche behavioral and data science consulting firm (www.pcdconsultinggroup.com), and she develops debiasing software. Follow her on Twitter @HLSPaola.
Stephanie Creary is an assistant professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
Tasha Eurich, is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times–bestselling author. She is the principal of the Eurich Group, a boutique executive development firm that helps companies—from startups to the Fortune 100—succeed by improving the effectiveness of their leaders and teams. Her newest book, Insight, delves into the connection between self-awareness and success in the workplace.
Kristi Hedges is a senior leadership coach who specializes in executive communications and the author of The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Every Day and The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others. She’s the founder of the Hedges Company and Element North Leadership Development, as well as a faculty member at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist, the CEO of Hewlett Consulting Partners, and the founder and chair emeritus of Coqual, formerly the Center for Talent Innovation. She is the author of 14 critically acclaimed books, including Off-Ramps and On-Ramps; Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor; Executive Presence; and The Sponsor Effect.
Ronit Kark is a professor of leadership and organization studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and at the School of Business, The University of Exeter, in the United Kingdom. She founded the Gender in the Field graduate program for social activism. She is a senior editor of the Leadership Quarterly and has received the Scholarly Contributions to Educational Practice Advancing Women in Leadership award from the Academy of Management. She studies leadership and its interplay with gender, creativity, and identities at work and play, and has worked as a consultant with many executives, teams, and organizations. She is an academic nomad, traveling internationally to give keynote presentations and guest lectures on leadership topics.
Rebecca Knight is a senior correspondent at Insider, covering careers and the workplace. Previously she was a freelance journalist and a lecturer at Wesleyan University. Her work has been published in the New York Times, USA Today, and the Financial Times.
Jamie J. Ladge is an associate professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and a distinguished research professor at the University of Exeter Business School. Her book, Maternal Optimism: Forging Positive Paths through Work and Motherhood, explores the uniqueness of each working mother’s journey to integrate career and family.
Anne Welsh McNulty has invested in elevating entrepreneurial leaders and nurturing promising students for over 25 years as cofounder and president of the McNulty Foundation. A trailblazer for women in finance, she was a managing director of Goldman Sachs and a senior executive of the Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Strategies Group.
Alyson Meister is a professor of leadership and organizational behavior at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. Specializing in the development of globally oriented, adaptive, and inclusive organizations, she has worked with thousands of executives, teams, and organizations from professional services to industrial goods and technology. Her research has been widely published, and in 2021 she was recognized as a Thinkers50 Radar thought leader. Follow her on Twitter @alymeister.
Candice Morgan was formerly the Head of Inclusion & Diversity at Pinterest.
Curt Nickisch is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review, where he makes podcasts and cohosts HBR IdeaCast. He earned an MBA from Boston University and previously reported for NPR, Marketplace, WBUR, and Fast Company. He speaks ausgezeichnet German and binges history podcasts. Follow him on Twitter @CurtNickisch.
Tina Opie is the founder of Opie Consulting Group, where she advises large firms in the financial services, entertainment, media, beauty, educational, and healthcare industries. She is an award-winning researcher, consultant, associate professor of management at Babson College, and visiting scholar at Harvard Business School. Her work has appeared in such outlets as O Magazine, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and Harvard Business Review. She is also a regular commentator on HBR’s Women at Work podcast and Greater Boston’s NPR affiliate television station WGBH.
Cindy Pace, is Vice President, Global Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at MetLife and lecturer of organizational leadership at Columbia University. She has over 20 years of corporate management and leadership experience working in financial services, healthcare, and biopharmaceuticals. Her business insights and research has been featured in the Financial Times, Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, TED +Brightline, and the book Women’s Leadership Journeys: Stories, Research, and Novel Perspectives.
Shannon Huffman Polson is one of the first women to fly the Apache helicopter in the United States Army. In addition to her military service, she earned an MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and spent five years leading and managing in the corporate sector at Guidant and Microsoft. She is the founder of the Grit Institute, the author of The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World and the memoir North of Hope: A Daughter’s Arctic Journey, and speaks frequently on topics related to leadership, courage, resilience, and grit.
Lakshmi Ramarajan is an associate professor at Harvard Business School.
Erin Reid is an associate professor at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business.
Rebecca Shambaugh is an internationally recognized leadership expert, author, and keynote speaker. She’s the president of SHAMBAUGH, a global leadership development organization, and the founder of Women in Leadership and Learning (WILL).
Alexis Nicole Smith is an assistant professor of management at Oklahoma State University. She earned her PhD in management at Tulane University and her BA from Rice University. Her research interests include gender dynamics, social identity, bias, and workplace diversity.
David G. Smith is an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He is a coauthor, with W. Brad Johnson, of Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace and Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women.
Amy Jen Su is cofounder and managing partner of Paravis Partners, a premier executive coaching and leadership development firm. For the past two decades, she has coached CEOs, executives, and rising stars in organizations. She is the author of The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019), and a coauthor, with Muriel Maignan Wilkins, of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).
Ruchika Tulshyan is the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy firm. She writes regularly for the New York Times and Harvard Business Review on workplace inclusion. Her latest book is Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work.
Marla Baskerville Watkins is an associate professor in the Management and Organizational Department at Northeastern University. She earned her PhD in organizational behavior at Tulane University, MEd from the University of Georgia, and BS from Howard University. Her research interests include power and influence, gender and diversity, and expressions of sexuality at work.
Muriel Maignan Wilkins is a cofounder and managing partner of Paravis Partners, a boutique executive coaching and leadership development firm. She is an adviser and coach to C-suite executives and has a nearly 20-year track record of helping leaders take their effectiveness to the next level. She is a coauthor, with Amy Jen Su, of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) and host of the HBR Presents podcast Coaching Real Leaders.
Wei Zheng is an associate professor of management and the Richard R. Roscitt Chair in Leadership at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her research centers on inclusive leadership and addresses practical questions such as what inclusive leadership looks like, which organizational practices enhance diversity, how individuals grow into leaders, and what help women leaders need to navigate gendered organizations. She has studied leadership in corporate, entrepreneurial, national laboratory, and faith-based organizations, and has conducted in-depth interviews with more than 120 top-level executives in the United States. Her research work has appeared in outlets such as the Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management, and Human Relations. She is leading the School of Business’ effort on gathering and disseminating leadership knowledge from exemplars to all leadership learners through Stevens Leadership Portal. She regularly speaks at and consults with organizations on leadership and diversity.