Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She is the faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative and has chaired numerous HBS Executive Education programs, including the Young Presidents' Organization Presidents' Seminar and the High Potentials Leadership Program. She was course-head during the development of the new Leadership and Organizational Behavior MBA required course. She is the co-author, with Kent Lineback, of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader and Breakthrough Leadership, a blended cohort-based program that helps organizations transform midlevel managers into more effective leaders. Breakthrough Leadership was the winner of the 2013 Brandon Hall Group Award for Best Advance in Unique Learning Technology. The book was included in the Wall Street Journal as one of the “Five Business Books to Read for Your Career in 2011.” She is also the author of Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership (2nd Edition). In 2014, Professor Hill co-authored a book entitled Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation. It features thick descriptions of exceptional leaders of innovation in a wide range of industries—from information technology to law to design—and geographies—from the US and Europe to the Middle East and Asia. Business Insider named Collective Genius one of “The 20 Best Business Books” in summer 2014. Her books are available in multiple languages.

Emily Truelove is a researcher with a decade of experience studying leadership, innovation and organizational change in firms around the world. She is currently a PhD candidate in Organization Studies at MIT Sloan School of Management. Truelove has presented her research in settings ranging from the International Design Forum in Dubai to London Business School to the Greater Boston Executive Program at MIT Sloan. She has published in outlets including Harvard Business Review and Business Strategy Review. Previously, Truelove was a research associate at Harvard Business School and coauthored over a dozen case studies on leadership, culture and organizational change. She was also a researcher at ICEDR, a consortium of global companies focused on global talent management. Truelove has lived and worked in South Africa and Malaysia. She holds a master's degree in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard's Graduate School of Education and a degree in English from Johns Hopkins University.