Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Area at the Harvard Business School. She is former unit chair of Organizational Behavior, faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative, and she has chaired numerous HBS Executive Education programs including the Young Presidents’ Organization Presidents’ Seminar and the High Potentials Leadership Program and serves on the faculty of the Leadership Best Practices program.She is the author of Power and Influence Customized Course Module, and Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership (2nd Edition). She is also author of two e-College course modules: Managing Your Career and Managing Teams, and of award-winning multimedia management development programs High Performance Management, Coaching, and Managing for Performance. She is the author of two e-learning programs: Stepping up to Management and Harvard Manage Mentor and a contributor to Managing Up and Becoming a New Manager.Professor Hill’s consulting and executive education activities have been in the areas of managing change, managing cross-organizational relationships, globalization, career management, and leadership development. Hill is currently working on two projects: leading in emerging markets and leadership as collective genius in which she explores the relationship between leadership, agility, and innovation. Organizations with which Professor Hill has worked include General Electric, Home Depot, IBM, MasterCard, the National Bank of Kuwait, Morgan Stanley, and the Royal Bank of Scotland.Dr. Hill did a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Harvard Business School and earned a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago. She received her M.A. in Educational Psychology with a concentration in measurement and evaluation from the University of Chicago. She has an A.B., summa cum laude, in psychology from Bryn Mawr College.