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Morten Hansen
Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley | Bestselling Author, Great at Work & Co-Author, Great by Choice | Thinkers50 Management Thinker | Leadership & Collaboration Expert
Speaker Morten Hansen is a Thinkers50 management thinker, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, and author of bestsellers Great at Work and Great by Choice (with Jim Collins). His study of 5,000 managers identified the seven practices that distinguish top performers. Senior audiences book Morten Hansen for keynotes that turn rigorous evidence into usable playbooks for performance, collaboration, and leading through disruption.
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Morten Hansen biography
Leadership speaker Morten Hansen is one of the world’s most cited management thinkers and a Thinkers50 honoree, recognized for translating rigorous research on collaboration, performance, and leadership into practical playbooks senior executives can act on. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for fourteen years at the School of Information, and previously held faculty positions at Harvard Business School and INSEAD.
His work is grounded in original, large-scale research. Great at Work, his Wall Street Journal bestseller, draws on a five-year study of more than 5,000 managers and employees to identify the “Seven Work Smarter Practices” that separate top performers from the rest. Great by Choice, his New York Times bestseller co-authored with Jim Collins, dissects what allows certain companies to thrive in turbulence while peers stall. His earlier book Collaboration remains a definitive guide to disciplined collaboration—when it creates value, when it destroys it, and how leaders tell the difference.
From Stanford Research to Fortune 100 Strategy
Hansen earned his PhD from Stanford Business School as a Fulbright scholar and began his career as a senior consultant at Boston Consulting Group, advising corporate clients across continents. His articles in Harvard Business Review are among the most-read of the past two decades, and his research has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, and on NPR.
He has advised and keynoted for many of the world’s most demanding organizations—Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Intel, American Express, AT&T, Walmart, Chevron—on how to lead through disruption, build cross-organizational performance, and unlock more output without burning out their people. More about his current work is available at mortenhansen.com.
As a speaker, Morten Hansen is precise, evidence-based, and refreshingly free of jargon. He gives senior audiences a small set of well-tested practices they can implement immediately to lift individual, team, and enterprise performance—and the data behind why those practices, and not the popular alternatives, actually work.
Morten Hansen Speaking Videos
Morten Hansen - What can leaders do to improve the way collaboration in their organizations?
Speaker Morten Hansen - Passion vs Purpose
Morten Hansen Keynote Topics
Morten Hansen has conducted a comprehensive study of more than 5,000 individuals to identify the factors that produce exceptional performance in leadership, teams, and individuals across companies and other organizations. He has identified 'Seven Work Smarter Practices' that anyone can apply to lift their own or their team's results. Hansen's surprising findings, presented in his Wall Street Journal bestseller Great at Work, offer a fresh perspective on how to achieve more without simply working longer hours. The session is filled with practical insights on productivity, innovation, and decision-making, and is well suited to themes such as leading change, performance, teamwork, and time management.
Effective collaboration is one of the central leadership challenges today. Morten Hansen is a top expert on the subject, recognized for his award-winning Stanford doctoral research and his influential book Collaboration, used by leaders across business, government, and non-profit organizations to improve outcomes. In this session, Hansen argues that 'bad collaboration is worse than none at all' and shows that not all collaboration is beneficial—the key is disciplined collaboration that maximizes results. He provides practical frameworks for identifying barriers and shows how the concept of 'T-shaped management' lifts collaborative performance.
Many businesses are navigating significant change, often driven by technological shifts. How can leaders ensure that their teams and organizations are prepared to thrive in this environment? Morten Hansen and Jim Collins, co-authors of the New York Times bestseller Great by Choice, conducted a large-scale study to understand how the best leaders and companies navigate uncertainty and disruption to achieve greatness. In this session, Hansen delivers practical guidance and explores the leadership skills required to succeed in turbulent times.
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FAQs on Booking Morten Hansen
Why Morten Hansen?
Morten Hansen is one of the few management thinkers whose work is both academically rigorous and immediately useful in the boardroom. A Thinkers50 honoree and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, he co-authored Great by Choice with Jim Collins and authored the Wall Street Journal bestseller Great at Work, both built on multi-year studies of thousands of leaders. Senior audiences value him because his keynotes don't traffic in slogans—they deliver the specific practices that distinguish top performers, the disciplined collaboration that actually drives results, and the leadership behaviors that work when conditions turn turbulent. Book Morten Hansen through Aurum Speakers Bureau to give your leaders a research-backed playbook they can apply the day they return to work.
What are Morten Hansen's Seven Work Smarter Practices?
They are the seven behaviors his five-year study of 5,000+ managers and employees identified as separating top performers from average ones: doing less but obsessing more (the discipline of focus), redesigning work for value rather than activity, learning loops, passion paired with purpose, becoming a forceful champion of change, fighting and uniting in disagreement, and disciplined collaboration. Together they explain why some people achieve dramatically more without working longer hours.
What is the difference between Great at Work and Great by Choice?
Great by Choice, co-authored with Jim Collins, is about why certain companies thrive under uncertainty and chaos while peers stall—it operates at the level of the enterprise. Great at Work zooms in to the individual and team, identifying the specific personal practices that produce exceptional performance. The two books are complementary: one explains macro corporate resilience, the other explains the daily behaviors that produce excellence inside any organization.
What kind of audiences book Morten Hansen for keynotes?
Fortune 500 executive teams, leadership conferences, and global firms across technology, financial services, healthcare, and consulting—Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Intel, American Express, AT&T, Walmart, and Chevron among them. He is most often invited to offsites and summits where the audience needs both intellectual rigor and a clear, applicable model. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring Morten Hansen to your next leadership event.
How to book Morten Hansen as a keynote speaker?
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How much is Morten Hansen speaking fee?
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Can I book Morten Hansen for a virtual keynote?
Yes, Morten Hansen is available for virtual keynotes and webinars. To book Morten Hansen for a virtual event, please complete the contact form or send us an email to inquire about the special fees for virtual engagements.
