Herminia Ibarra
Herminia Ibarra is an author, speaker and London Business School professor who studies how people grow into leadership and reinvent their careers.
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Known for
Harvard Business Review Press
Harvard Business Review PressOverview
- Work
- Author, leadership researcher and speaker
- Based at
- London Business School
- From
- Cuba
- Education
- Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, Yale University, 1989
- Early book
- Working Identity, first published in 2003
Mini bio
How it started.
A native of Cuba, Herminia studied psychology at the University of Miami before earning a doctorate in organizational behavior at Yale in 1989. That year, they joined Harvard Business School as an assistant professor. Their later academic career took them to INSEAD and, in 2017, London Business School.
Ideas readers return to.
Working Identity brought their research on career reinvention into book form in 2003. Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader followed in 2015. Both invite readers to learn about who they might become through new activities and relationships. Thinkers50 recognized their work with its Leadership Award in 2013 and placed Working Identity on its 2024 Management Classics booklist.
What comes next.
Their next book, The Bonus Years: Reinventing Our Longer Work Lives, is scheduled for January 2027. It draws on research into professionals reinventing themselves after 50, continuing their interest in how working identities change over a lifetime.
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Awards
Quotes
Once you’re doing what your future self might do, you can evaluate it.Herminia Ibarra, Enduring Excellence conversation with Tyler Mathisen
Quoted in the University of Chicago’s conversation takeaways: https://leadforsociety.uchicago.edu/ee-herminia
Trivia
- Their undergraduate degree was in psychology, earned summa cum laude at the University of Miami in 1982.
- They have served as a judge for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award.
- They call the perspective gained from new experiences and experimentation “outsight”.
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