Herminia Ibarra
Charles Handy Chair in Organisational Behaviour; Professor of Organisational Behaviour (on leave from London Business School)
MA PhD (Yale)
Professor Herminia Ibarra is an authority on leadership and career transition. Thinkers50 ranks Herminia among the top management thinkers in the world. She is the author of best-selling books, Act Like a Leader, Think Like a
Leader and Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. She writes regularly in leading academic journals and business publications and speaks internationally on leadership and organisational transformation.
Her expertise spans leadership development and career transitions, with particular focus on how individuals and organizations navigate change and transformation. She brings this knowledge to both academic and practitioner audiences through her research, writing, and speaking engagements.
A native of Cuba, Herminia received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where she was a National Science Fellow. Prior to joining London Business School, she served as Professor on the INSEAD and Harvard Business School faculties. She is a member of Thinkers50 and the World Economic Forum's Expert Network, a Fellow of the British Academy, and the recipient of the Academy of Management's Scholar-Practitioner Award for her research's contribution to management practice.
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Academic and professional experience
Charles Handy Chair in Organisational Behaviour; Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School
Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership & Learning, INSEAD
Professor, Harvard Business School
Governor, London Business School
Chair, Visiting Committee, Harvard Business School
Member, INSEAD Board of Directors
Judge, Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
Awards and honours
Best Teacher Award, Sloan Fellows (2022)
Academy of Management-GDO Division, Scholarly Contributions to Educational Practice Advancing Women in Leadership Award (2021)
Academy of Management Learning & Education, Decade Paper Award (2021)
Fellow of the British Academy (2019)
Excellence in Teaching Prize, LBS (2019)
Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner, Academy of Management (2018)
Clarendon Lectures, Oxford University, Said Business School (2017)
Academy of Management, Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication in OB (2016)
#1 Leadership Thinker, Thinkers 50 (2013)
Association of Executive Search Consultants, Best Article Award (2010)
Academy of Management, Best Paper Award, MED (2009)
EFMD Best Case Award (2008)
Greenhill Award, Harvard Business School (1996)
Teaching portfolio
Our teaching offering is updated annually. Faculty and programme material are subject to change.