organizational Talent expert

Francesca is driven by a contagious dedication to help people realize their full potential as leaders and agents of change. She partners with senior leadership teams, executives and organizations across the globe as advisor, coach, speaker, teacher, or consultant.

For 15 years, Francesca taught at Harvard Business School, where she studied and wrote about how people can have more productive, creative and fulfilling lives. She is the best-selling author, most recently, of “Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life.” She has been honored as one of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers 50.

WRITING

Francesca’s work has been frequently featured in Harvard Business Review.

Cracking the Code of Sustained Collaboration.

When most organizations strive to increase collaboration, they approach it too narrowly: as a value to cultivate—not a skill to teach. So they create open offices, talk up collaboration as a corporate goal, and try to influence employees through other superficial means that don’t yield progress. Companies that excel at collaboration, in contrast, realize it involves instilling the right mindset and attitudes, and develop new skills.

NOVEMBER, 2019

Disagreement Doesn’t Have to Be Divisive

When someone has a sharply different point of view than your own, the natural tendency is to either avoid a conversation with that person or to try to convince them they are wrong. Neither is a productive approach. Research shows that there is a better way to engage.

NOVEMBER, 2020

Know when to take charge and when to get out of the way.

The debate about the best way to lead has been raging for years: Should you empower your people and get out of their way, or take charge and push them to do great work? The answer, say the authors, is to do both. Their research shows that effective leaders routinely shift between these two seemingly opposing modes — and build teams whose members are good at switching back and forth too..

MARCH, 2023