Linda Hill

Linda Hill

• Regarded as one of the top experts on leadership
• Harvard Business School Professor and co-founder of Paradox Strategies and InnovationForce
• Named a top ten management thinker by Thinkers50 in 2011 and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015
• Named by Fast Company as a 2023 “Innovative Company to Watch.”
• Bestselling author whose books have been translated into multiple languages

Regarded as a top expert on leadership and innovation, Linda Hill, an American economist, co-founded Paradox Strategies and InnovationForce. She is also a Harvard Business School Professor and co-creator of the re: Route assessment. Hill co-founded InnovationForce, a SaaS company using AI and machine learning to accelerate the process of innovation.

Named by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s top ten management thinkers in 2013, Linda Hill received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award two years later.

Linda Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Administration at Harvard Business School. The faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative, she has also chaired numerous HBS Executing programmes. She includes the Young Presidents’ Organisation Presidents’ Seminar and the High Potentials Leadership Programme. Her research focuses on implementing global strategies and leading innovation, building innovative organisations and ecosystems, developing leaders for innovation, and the board’s role in governing innovation.

Regarding her consulting and executive education activities, Linda Hill addresses many topics. These include leadership development, talent management, leading change and innovation, implementing global strategies, and managing cross-cultural relationships. Amongst the global organisations she worked with, she includes the likes of Morgan Stanley, AREVA, Accenture, IBM, Pfizer, MasterCard, Mitsubishi, General Electric, and the Bank of Kuwait.

Successful Author

Linda Hill co-authors ‘Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader’. The Wall Street Journal named the book one of the ‘Five Best Business Books to Read for Your Career in 2011’. An imminently successful author in her own right, she has created award-winning multimedia management development programmes and written numerous HBR articles. Her books have been translated into multiple languages.

Other Interests

Currently, a member of State Street Corporation, Eaton Corporation, and Harvard Business Publishing boards, Linda Hill is also a trustee of The Bridgespan Group and the Art Centre College of Design. Furthermore, she is an advisor to the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund USA and a special representative to the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College. She is also a member of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Programme’s advisory board.

As to her educational background, Linda Hill holds a PhD in behavioural science and an MA in educational psychology. She completed both degrees at the University of Chicago. She received a BA cum laude in psychology from Bryn Mawr College.

Linda Hill Conference Speaker

A sought-after conference speaker, Linda Hill focuses on leadership development, building agile, innovative organizations, and implementing global strategies, business, and management. She lives in the USA and presents in English.

Speaker Topics

• Leadership
• Innovation
• Business
• Management