240: Interview with advisor, keynote speaker & author, Dr. Heidi Gardner

Published: Aug. 25, 2023, 7 a.m.

Dr. Heidi K. Gardner is a sought-after advisor, keynote speaker, and facilitator for organizations across a\xa0wide range of industries globally. Named by Thinkers50 as a Next Generation Business Guru, she is a\xa0Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School and former professor at Harvard Business School. She is\xa0currently the faculty chair and instructor in multiple executive education programs at both institutions.\xa0Dr. Gardner works extensively with her team at Gardner & Co., partnering with boards, executive teams,\xa0and other senior leaders to boost performance by embedding the principles and practices of smarter,\xa0agile, cross-silo collaboration within those groups and across the broader organization and ecosystem\u2014resulting in concrete, quantifiable performance improvements.

Altogether, Dr. Gardner has authored (or co-authored) more than 100 books, chapters, case studies, and\xa0articles. This includes Washington Post best-selling book Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and\xa0Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos and newly published Smarter Collaboration: A New\xa0Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work. Her research received the Academy of\xa0Management\u2019s prize for Outstanding Practical Implications for Management and has been selected\xa0multiple times for Harvard Business Review\u2019s \u201cbest of\u201d collections. It has also been featured in major\xa0media outlets around the globe.

Dr. Gardner has lived and worked on four continents, including as a Fulbright Fellow, and for McKinsey &\xa0Co. and Procter & Gamble. She earned her BA in Japanese Studies from the University of Pennsylvania\xa0(Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude), a master\u2019s degree from the London School of Economics, and a\xa0second master\u2019s and Ph.D. from London Business School.

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