Lynda Gratton

Professor Lynda Gratton has written extensively about the interface between people and organisations, exploring corporate culture, human resource management strategy, and the future of work. Her books include Living Strategy, The Democratic Enterprise, Hot Spots and Glow, The Shift, The Key, The 100 Year Life (co-authored with Andrew Scott), and Redesigning Work. Most recently, she has followed the changing nature of work during Covid and wrote extensively about the changing hybrid workplace, with her HBR article 'Managers cannot do it all' winning the 2022 Warren Bennis Best Article of the Year award. For over ten years she has led the Future of Work Consortium, which has brought executives from more than 60 companies together.

Lynda directs the programme 'Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Companies' – considered the world's leading programme on human resources. Her elective on the Future of Work is one of the school's most popular and in 2016 she received the school's 'Excellence in Teaching' award. She continues to explore issues of work in columns for MIT Sloan and her monthly column in The Times of London.

Her work has been acknowledged globally – she has won the Tata Prize in India, been named as the annual Fellow of NAHR, won the CCL Prize in the US, and won the HR Prize in Australia. She has been named by Thinkers50 as one of the top 15 thinkers in the world. She has served as a Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, co-chaired the WEF Council on Work, Wages and Job Creation, and was a member of the advisory board of Japan's Prime Minister Abe.