Linda Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the long-standing chair of the Leadership Initiative. A globally recognised authority on leadership, she has been consistently named one of the top ten management thinkers by Thinkers50 and was the recipient of their prestigious Innovation Award. Her work focuses on the intersection of leadership, innovation, and digital transformation, specifically how organisations can harness the “collective genius” of their people rather than relying on a single, heroic leader. Professor Hill is the co-author of several seminal business books, including Being the Boss, Collective Genius, and her newest release, Genius at Scale.

Beyond academia, she is a sought-after consultant for Fortune 500 companies and global non-profits, helping them navigate complex organisational change. She also serves on the boards of several high-tech firms and NGOs, including the Global Citizens Initiative and the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. Her research has redefined how modern leaders manage across boundaries and foster environments where diverse teams can thrive.At the Sport Performance Summit New York, she will explore how these principles allow elite sporting organisations to scale innovation and build more resilient performance cultures using her “ABC” leadership model.