Leadership speaker Herminia Ibarra helps managers transform their organizations and themselves to achieve ever-greater success. An internationally acclaimed keynote speaker, Herminia Ibarra addresses corporate and nonprofit events with wisdom and wit.

Herminia Ibarra’s bestselling books and groundbreaking research have made her one of the world’s leading authorities on management. Thinkers50 regularly names her to its list of global management thought leaders, and named her its 2013 Leadership Award winner. Moreover, Apolitical named her one of the world’s 100 most influential gender-policy thinkers.

Ibarra stresses the importance of empirical knowledge: managers, she demonstrates, are not born but made through their experiences. Her bestselling book Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader explains how even failure prepares managers for larger roles. Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career argues that career change is best facilitated through purposeful action, not introspection.

Her recent research addresses the impact of AI, and cognitive technologies in particular, on established organizations and processes. Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School. Previously, she taught at Harvard Business School and at INSEAD. She earned her MA and PhD from Yale University.

Ibarra regularly publishes articles in the Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, and other leading publications.