Meet Gary

Meet Gary

Gary Hamel is visiting professor at the London Business School and Oxford University. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and served as a Distinguished Research Fellow at Harvard Business School.

Hamel’s pioneering concepts such as “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industry revolution,” and “management innovation” have had a profoundly shaped the practice of management around the world.

Having written twenty articles for the Harvard Business Review, Hamel is HBR’s most reprinted author. His best-selling books have been translated into more than 25 languages, and include Leading the Revolution, The Future of Management (an Amazon business book of the year), and What Matters Now. His latest book, Humanocracy, is a Wall Street Journal best-seller and was hailed by the Financial Times, the Economist, and Fortune as essential reading for 21st century leaders.

Hamel is a member of the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame, and often speaks at the world’s most prestigious leadership events. As a consultant, Hamel has led change initiatives in many of the world’s most influential companies. He helps clients build break-out strategies, roll back bureaucracy, enlarge their capacity for innovation, and maximize institutional vitality.

A fellow of the Strategic Management Society, Hamel’s work has garnered more than 120,000 academic citations, making him one of the world’s most influential management scholars.

Hamel lives in Silicon Valley.