20 September 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
Amy Edmondson
World's #1 Management Thinker, HBS Professor
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. She’s a renowned expert on organizational learning and leadership and the #1 ranked thinker in the world by Thinkers50 (2021).
She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning. Her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, and California Management Review.
Her most recent book, The Fearless Organization, offers a practical guide for organizations serious about success in the modern economy and has been translated into 11 languages.
Creating a Fearless Organization
A keynote by Amy Edmondson
During her keynote at Nordic Business Forum 2022, Amy Edmondson will share her insights on topics such as:
- Why and how psychological safety leads to high performance
- How your leadership style affects your team
- Why also bad ideas are a key ingredient of success
Why Should You Listen to Her?
World’s #1 Management Thinker
Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50, and currently she is ranked as the #1 ranked thinker in the world (2021), after ranking as #3 in 2019. She also received an organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017.
Award-Winning Author
She has been named the Most Influential International Thinker in Human Resources by HR Magazine, and the winner of Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award (2019). The same year her book The Fearless Organization was listed on the Porchlight Business Best Seller list.
Combining Academics and Business
She received her PhD in organizational behavior, AM in psychology and AB in engineering and design from Harvard University. Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies.More From Amy Edmondson
Article, Podcast Episode, Interview
Read
What Psychological Safety Looks Like in a Hybrid Workplace – Harvard Business ReviewListen
Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace – HBR IdeaCast
Watch
How to turn a group of strangers into a team – TED
