Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Prior to joining LBS, she served on the INSEAD and Harvard Business School faculties.
An authority on leadership and career development, Thinkers50 ranks Herminia among the top management thinkers in the world.
She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network, a judge for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, a Fellow of the British Academy, and the 2018 recipient of the Academy of Management’s Scholar-Practitioner Award for her research’s contribution to management practice.
Herminia Ibarra is a member of the London Business School governing body. She chaired the Harvard Business School Visiting Committee, which reports to the university’s board of overseers, from 2012 to 2016, having been a member since 2009, and served on the INSEAD board of directors.
She is the author of two bestselling books, “Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader” and “Working Identity”. She writes regularly in leading academic journals and business publications such as the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Her article, “The Leader as Coach”, won the 2019 Warren Bennis Prize for the best leadership article in the Harvard Business Review.
Today more than ever we need leaders who can help transform our firms — so they become more agile, more innovative, more digitally savvy, more customer-centric, more inclusive and/or more human. Herminia Ibarra has found that five leadership skills are vital for moving our organizations in this desired direction, increasing their people’s capacity to deal with today’s adaptive challenges: situations in which problems are complex, there isn’t an obvious answer, and the brainpower and enthusiasm of many, not just the top leaders, is needed to solve them.
Likewise, according to Herminia Ibarra, the rapid pace of technological change has a tremendous impact on leaders and, as a result, on their organizations’ ability to transform. In her conferences, you will learn to transform yourself through action rather than reflection and to apply a growth mindset to your own leadership capabilities.
A world-renowned and highly sought-after speaker, Herminia Ibarra delivers international lectures on stepping into higher-responsibility leadership roles, leadership skills for organizational transformation, achieving greater diversity in senior positions, and developing authentic sponsorship relationships.
