Linda Hill

Dr. Linda Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where she also serves as faculty chair of its Leadership Initiative. An internationally recognized authority and academic on the topics of leadership and innovation, Hill’s research and consulting focuses on leadership development, leading change and innovation and implementing global strategies.

Hill co-founded Paradox Strategies, an advisory and research firm that advises organizations and boards on leadership, innovation and diversity and inclusion. Hill is co-creator of the Innovation Quotient and re:Route, and she co-founded InnovationForce, a SaaS company using AI and machine learning to accelerate the process of innovation. It was named by Fast Company as a 2023 “Innovative Company to Watch.”

Hill is a member of the Board of Directors of Relay Therapeutics and is on the Board of Trustees of the ArtCenter College of Design and of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also a member of the Team8 Fintech Strategic Committee. She serves on the advisory boards of several organizations including the American Repertory Theater, the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), Eight Inc., the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. She also sits on the board of the Global Citizens Initiative, Inc. and is a special representative to the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College.

Hill completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at Harvard Business School and earned a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences at The University of Chicago. She has a bachelor’s in arts in psychology from Bryn Mawr College.

She joined the Kresge Board of Trustees in 2024.