Hal Gregersen
at INSEAD Business School
Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School / Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at Sloan School of Management
Schools
- INSEAD Business School
- Sloan School of Management
- University of Cape Town
Expertise
- Automotive
- Beverages
- Electronic and Electrical Equipment
- Telecommunications
- TV and Media
- Consumer Goods
- Food Industry
- Economics
- Pharmaceuticals
- Change management
- Construction and Civil Engineering
- Business Services and Consulting
- Leadership
- Defense and Aerospace
- Banking
- Industry and Manufacturing
- Strategy
- Marketing
- Information Technology
- Fashion, Luxury, Sporting Goods, and Cosmetics
Links
Biography
INSEAD Business School
Hal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and ultimately deliver positive, powerful results.He is a Senior Fellow at Innosight and a former advisory board member at Pharmascience, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Montreal, Canada. Before joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University, and in Finland as a Fulbright Fellow.Gregersen's most recent book, The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, flows from a path-breaking international research project (with Jeff Dyer & Clayton Christensen). They explored where disruptive innovations come from by interviewing founder entrepreneurs and CEOs at 100+ of the most innovative companies in the world and by assessing how 8,000+ leaders leverage five key innovation skills to create valuable new products, services, processes, and businesses.To grasp how leaders find and ask the right questions—ones that disrupt the world—Gregersen is now studying 100+ renowned business and government leaders. This question-centric project, conducted in collaboration with Clayton Christensen, is surfacing insights into how leaders build better questions to unlock game-changing solutions. Gregersen is also founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation.Gregersen has co-authored ten books and published over 50 articles, book chapters, and cases on leading innovation and change. His research has been highlighted in global media such as BBC, CNN, The Economist, Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Inc., The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He has received several awards for his cutting edge work, including: 2013 Thinkers50 Innovation Award Nominee, 2012 Chartered Management – British Library Book of the Year Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and the 2009 McKinsey Award runner-up for the best article in Harvard Business Review.Putting his research to practice, Gregersen regularly delivers high impact keynote speeches and executive workshops with companies like Accenture, Adidas, AT&T, Christie’s, Coca-Cola, Daimler, Danone, Genentech, IBM, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, LG, Lilly, McAfee, Marriott, MasterCard, Sanofi Aventis, SAP, Vivendi, WalMart, World Economic Forum, & Yahoo! He also works with governments, not-for-profit and NGO organizations to generate greater innovation capabilities in the next generation of leaders.Gregersen has lived and worked outside the United States for over a decade—in England, Finland, France, and the UAE. He and his wife now reside in Boston where he pursues his lifelong avocation, photography, and she her lifelong love, painting.More information about Gregersen and his work can be found at www.halgregersen.com and www.sternspeakers.com.
Sloan School of Management
Hal Gregersen is a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT's Sloan School of Management, a former executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, a fellow at Innosight, and a cofounder of the Innovator’s DNA consulting group.
He has dedicated his extensive career, including prior teaching posts at INSEAD, London Business School, and Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, to create cultures of fearless inquiry and to help leaders transform their organizations into innovative powerhouses. Ranked as one of the world’s 20 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, and winner of the 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award for leadership, Gregersen regularly delivers inspirational keynote speeches, interactive and dynamic customized workshops, and transformational advisory experiences.
In his Nautilus award-winning book, “Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life” (based on 200+ interviews with catalytic questioners like Elon Musk and Orit Gadiesh), he argues that while people are programmed to look for answers, the real catalyst for innovative, disruptive change is catalytic inquiry. Twenty years ago Gregersen created a repeatable three-step methodology, the Question Burst, by which companies can begin to build better problem solvers and enhance creative impact at all levels, from senior executives to entry-level employees. His Question Burst method, combined with four more habits of inquiry, have helped redesign company cultures around constructive questioning at Chanel, Daimler, Disney·Pixar, Ernst & Young, Fidelity, Genentech, Patagonia, Salesforce, World Economic Forum, and Zappos, among others.
Gregersen coauthored, with Clayton Christensen and Jeff Dyer, “The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators” (translated into 14 languages worldwide), a guide to cultivating the discovery skills that CEOs and entrepreneurs rely on to build and guide sustainably creative companies. Having personally interviewed 100+ ground-breaking leaders at the world’s most innovative companies, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, Gregersen draws on rigorous research and analysis (based on a database of +25,000 leaders) to successfully advise the world’s largest corporations on innovation, transformation and key leadership challenges.
Videos
Keynote - Hal Gregersen - 2019
How Asking Questions is Key to Making Something Better by Hal Gregersen
Innovator's DNA - Hal Gregersen, at USI
How To Ask The Right Question: Hal Gregersen at TEDxYouth@IFTA
Faculty Session: Hal Gregersen
Hal Gregersen, INSEAD Professor of Innovation & Leadership on the World's Most Innovative Companies
The Four Behaviors Of Innovative Leaders | Forbes
Navigating the Human Side of Transitions in Times of Change
What are you dead wrong about today?: Hal Gregersen at TEDxBYU
Hal Gregersen: The Leader's Dilemma
How Innovators Transform Industries: Mastering the Skills of Disruptive Innovation
Hal Gregersen Interview: Asking the Right Questions
Innovative Leaders Make Innovative Companies - Hal Gregersen
Hal Gregersen at the SAP Executive Summit
CL199: How To Ask Better Questions - Interview with Hal Gregersen
Hal Gregersen | Questions Are The Answer: Operating on the Edge of Uncertainty
Courses Taught
Innovator's DNA: Mastering Five Skills for Innovative Disruption
Sloan School of Management
Online
Leading Successful Transitions in a Digitally Driven World
Sloan School of Management
Online
Navigating Transitions During Disruptive Change
Sloan School of Management
Online
Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Creative Problem Solving, Innovation, and Change
Sloan School of Management
Online
Embracing the Unexpected: Creative Transformation Amid Rapid Change
Sloan School of Management
Online
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