The Institute for Management Studies is proud to honor Professor Linda Hill with the 2026 IMS Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing her extraordinary contributions to the fields of leadership, innovation, and organizational effectiveness. We are delighted that she has accepted our invitation to share her insights with the IMS community.
The Institute for Management Studies is proud to honor Professor Linda Hill with the 2026 IMS Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing her extraordinary contributions to the fields of leadership, innovation, and organizational effectiveness. We are delighted that she has accepted our invitation to share her insights with the IMS community.
In this program, Dr. Hill will explore how leaders can unlock innovation across teams, functions, and enterprises; why scaling genius requires more than hiring talented individuals; and what it takes to build cultures where creativity, collaboration, and disciplined execution reinforce one another. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how leadership must evolve in an era defined by complexity, speed, and constant reinvention. This session offers practical guidance for leaders seeking to build organizations that learn faster, adapt smarter, and turn human potential into enterprise-wide impact.
Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. She is one of the world's foremost experts on leadership and innovation. Recognized multiple times by Thinkers50 as a top ten global management thinker (2013, 2021, 2025), she received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award and was named an Innovation Luminary by Front End of Innovation.
Hill coauthored Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation (March 2026), introducing three essential roles for leading innovation across organizations and ecosystems: architect, bridger, and catalyst. The book was shortlisted for the 2025 Thinkers50 Innovation Award. She is also the coauthor of award-winning books, Collective Genius and Being the Boss, and her TED talk on collective creativity has over three million views.
Hill co-founded Paradox Strategies and InnovationForce, an AI-driven innovation platform. She advises leading global organizations including Google, Microsoft, NASA, Novartis, Salesforce, and the Federal Reserve, and serves on multiple corporate and nonprofit boards.
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based (Zoom platform)
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Field of Study: Personal Development