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Lynda Gratton
Thinkers50 Hall of Fame | Professor, London Business School | Founder, HSM Advisory | Bestselling Author of 'The 100-Year Life' & 'Living the 100-Year Life'
A 2024 Thinkers50 Hall of Fame inductee, speaker Lynda Gratton is one of the world's leading voices on the future of work, hybrid redesign, and longer lives. As Professor at London Business School and founder of HSM Advisory, she turns two decades of research with top global firms into practical strategy. Her books, from The 100-Year Life to Living the 100-Year Life, shape how leaders rethink careers, longevity, and the way work gets done.
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Lynda Gratton biography
Future of work speaker Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, founder of the advisory firm HSM Advisory, and one of the world’s most-cited thinkers on how people, organizations, and working lives are being reshaped. In 2024, Thinkers50 inducted her into its Hall of Fame, recognition reserved for management thinkers whose ideas have had a profound and lasting influence on practice.
For more than two decades, Gratton’s research has explored the interface between organizations and the people inside them, shaping corporate thinking from London to Tokyo to Silicon Valley. She founded and directs the Future of Work Research Consortium, a global initiative that has brought senior leaders from dozens of the world’s leading organizations together to study how technology, longevity, and shifting expectations are transforming work. She now also serves as Academic Co-Director of the SARI Foundation Institute for Work, Careers and Longevity at London Business School, and co-chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Work, Wages and Job Creation.
Shaping how leaders redesign work and life
Gratton is the author of internationally bestselling books including The Shift, The 100-Year Life (co-authored with Andrew Scott), The New Long Life, and Redesigning Work, a four-step playbook for the hybrid era. The 100-Year Life became a cultural phenomenon in Japan and influenced the country’s national longevity agenda. Her latest book, Living the 100-Year Life, turns a decade of longevity research into a practical guide for building a career that lasts and a life worth living. Her commentary appears regularly in the Financial Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Harvard Business Review, where her article on management won a Warren Bennis Best Article award.
As a speaker, Lynda Gratton turns rigorous research into clear, actionable strategy for senior leaders. Organizations book future of work speaker Lynda Gratton for keynotes on hybrid redesign, human capital strategy, longevity and the 100-year life, and the leadership capabilities required to build energetic, future-ready organizations.
Lynda Gratton Speaking Videos
Lynda Gratton - The future of work
Redesigning Work with Lynda Gratton
Lynda Gratton Keynote Topics
Putting people at the heart of strategy is what lets an organization truly thrive. That means deliberately shaping the culture, processes, and people architecture that release energy and potential rather than drain them. Lynda Gratton has spent three decades researching how to do this well, and her work on organizational design and alignment has shaped how leading companies think about talent. Senior leaders leave with a practical framework for aligning people strategy with business strategy, and a clear view of the mistakes that quietly erode both.
Rising longevity is reshaping careers, talent strategy, and the social contract between people and their employers. Drawing on The 100-Year Life and her latest book, Living the 100-Year Life, Lynda Gratton shows why the old three-stage life of education, work, and retirement no longer fits, and what multi-stage lives mean for how organizations attract, develop, and retain people. Leaders leave understanding how to build careers, benefits, and cultures fit for workforces that will live and work far longer than previous generations.
Innovation rarely happens in isolation; it happens where cooperation, trust, and diverse networks meet a shared sense of purpose. Drawing on more than a decade of research, Lynda Gratton shows how high-performing organizations build three forces into their operating model: a culture of cooperation, rich networks that let ideas move freely, and a purpose powerful enough to ignite collective energy. This keynote gives leaders a concrete playbook for turning cooperation into a renewable source of innovation.
What will working lives look like in the years ahead, and how should leaders prepare today? Drawing on her bestseller Redesigning Work and the Future of Work Research Consortium, Lynda Gratton lays out a blueprint for the hybrid era. She walks leaders through a four-step process, understand what matters, reimagine the future, model and test, then act to create, and equips them with the questions and trade-offs required to build workplaces that are more productive, more human, and more ready for what comes next.
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FAQs on Booking Lynda Gratton
Why Lynda Gratton?
Speaker Lynda Gratton is the definitive voice on the future of work, hybrid redesign, and the 100-year life. A 2024 Thinkers50 Hall of Fame inductee and Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, she founded and directs the Future of Work Research Consortium, giving her rare visibility into how leading firms are re-architecting work. Her keynotes fuse rigorous research with direct, actionable frameworks for senior leaders. Book Lynda Gratton through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring one of the world's most-cited management thinkers to your stage.
What is Lynda Gratton's 100-Year Life concept?
In The 100-Year Life, co-authored with Andrew Scott, Lynda Gratton argues that rising longevity is reshaping careers, savings, education, and talent strategy. The traditional three-stage life of education, work, and retirement no longer fits; instead, people and organizations must plan for multi-stage lives built on continuous learning, flexible careers, and intangible assets such as health, relationships, and the capacity to change. The book became a cultural phenomenon in Japan and helped shape national longevity policy.
What is Living the 100-Year Life about?
Living the 100-Year Life is Lynda Gratton's practical follow-up to her landmark work on longevity. Where The 100-Year Life set out why longer lives change everything, this book focuses on how individuals can build a career that lasts and a life they love, covering the choices, transitions, and investments in health, skills, and relationships that a multi-stage life demands. It gives both leaders and employees a usable roadmap for thriving across careers that may span six decades or more.
Why book Lynda Gratton as a keynote speaker?
Organizations book Lynda Gratton through Aurum Speakers Bureau when they want a research-grounded, executive-ready perspective on the defining human capital questions of the decade: hybrid work, longevity, cooperation, and the leadership capabilities required to thrive. Her keynotes leave audiences with clear frameworks, crisp language to take to their boards, and a concrete agenda for action.
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