Working lives are getting longer. How we build careers, organise work and support people throughout their working lives needs to change.
Led by Academic Co-Directors Professor Lynda Gratton and Professor Herminia Ibarra, the SARI Institute at London Business School conducts and supports research on work, careers and longevity—and brings its findings to wider audiences to inform individual choices, organisational practice and public policy.
Research that operates at three levels
Most research focuses on one part of the picture. The SARI Institute considers all three together, in a single, integrated view.
Work
Understanding how work is changing and how that affects people and organisations.
Careers
Navigating non-linear careers across working lives that may span six decades.
Organisations
Redesigning talent systems for a workforce whose careers no longer follow the old script.
Latest insights
In the news
The Times
Forget the career ladder — modern work is a weave, writes Professor Lynda Gratton, author of Living the 100-Year Life. With AI and economic uncertainty changing working lives, taking stock of skills, relationships and priorities can be as valuable as moving up, she asserts.
Arabian Business
Professors Lynda Gratton and Herminia Ibarra discuss how the career ladder is broken and how to remain relevant for another 20 years. They explain how executives can detect declining relevance, test a new professional direction and build careers capable of surviving decades of economic and technological change.
Think
Professor Herminia Ibarra discusses career change and identifies reinvention as part of a long working life. She reveals that small experiments, new experiences and relationships help us discover possibilities that reflection alone cannot reveal. She stresses that careers need not follow a straight line, and sees periods of questioning, pausing and changing direction as valuable.
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