Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice in Organisational Behaviour at London Business School and Academic Director of the SARI Foundation Institute for Work, Careers and Longevity. Her research examines the relationship between people and organisations, including collaboration, workforce strategy and how technological and demographic change reshape working lives.
Gratton holds a bachelor’s degree and doctorate from the University of Liverpool. At London Business School, she teaches the future of work and leads executive education concerned with people and organisational transformation. Her work connects psychological insight with the strategic decisions employers make about how people contribute, develop and work together.
She founded HSM Advisory and has led a Future of Work consortium bringing executives together to consider changing conditions and possible responses. This work provides a setting for examining emerging practices across organisations rather than treating one company’s approach as the answer for every workforce.
Her books develop complementary aspects of that agenda. Living Strategy connects business direction with the people required to make it real, while Hot Spots and Glow explore collaboration. With economist Andrew Scott, she wrote The 100-Year Life and The New Long Life, examining how longevity changes the familiar structure of education, work and retirement. Redesigning Work turns attention to understanding needs, reimagining possibilities, testing arrangements and creating more deliberate ways of working.
For executive audiences, Gratton offers a human and organisational frame for the future of work. A useful brief might concern a manager’s expanding responsibilities, how hybrid arrangements affect learning or what longer careers require from an employer. Her perspective asks leaders to make conscious choices about work design and capability instead of treating changing expectations as a temporary disruption to a model that can simply be restored.
