Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School.
For the second consecutive time, she has claimed the top spot of the Thinkers50, the ‘Oscar’ for the best management thinkers. She teaches and writes on leadership, teaming and organizational learning, and her articles appear in management publications such as Harvard Business Review and California Management Review as well as in top academic journals. She is best known for her pioneering work on psychological safety, which has helped spawn a large
body of academic research in management, healthcare and education over the past 15 years. Her books include The Fearless Organization, Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy and Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well.