Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration
Faculty Chair, Leadership Initiative
Harvard Business School

Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and chair of the Leadership Initiative. Linda is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on leadership. Linda was named by Thinkers50 as one of the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2013 and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015. Linda is the author or co-author of several award-winning articles and books including Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader and Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership. Her TED talk on how to manage for collective creativity has over 2 million views.

Linda’s research and consulting focuses on leadership development, leading change and innovation, and implementing global strategies. In 2014, Linda co-founded Paradox Strategies—an advisory and research firm that advises organizations and boards on leadership and innovation.

Linda is a member of the Board of Directors of Relay Therapeutics and the Board of Trustees of the ArtCenter College of Design. Linda serves on the advisory boards of several organizations including the American Repertory Theater, the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), Eight Inc., the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. Linda sits on the board of the Global Citizens Initiative, Inc. and is a Special Representative to the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College.

Linda completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Harvard Business School and earned a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago. Linda has a B.A., summa cum laude, in psychology from Bryn Mawr College.