Frances Frei & Anne Morriss

Leadership isn’t about you, it is about the people you work with.

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SHORTLISTED

Shortlisted for the 2023 Thinkers50 Leadership Award.

SHORTLISTED​

Shortlisted for the 2021 Thinkers50 Leadership Award. 

Ideas

Popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: Build others up. Leadership isn’t about you. It’s about how effective you are at empowering other people—and making sure that this impact endures even in your absence. In Unleashed, Frances and Anne argue that the origins of great leadership are found, paradoxically, not in worrying about your own status and advancement, but in the unrelenting focus on other people’s potential. In their latest book, Move Fast and Fix Things, they debunk the theory that you can’t make progress and take care of people at the same time. The trade-off between speed and excellence is false, they explain, as they outline five essential steps to moving fast and fixing things.

Bio

Frances Frei is a professor at Harvard Business School. She served as Uber’s first Senior Vice President of Leadership and Strategy to help the company navigate its very public crisis in leadership and culture. Regularly works with companies embarking on large-scale change and organizational transformation, including embracing inclusion and diversity as a lever for improved performance.

Anne Morriss is a leadership coach and the Executive Founder of The Leadership Consortium, a first-of-its-kind leadership accelerator that works to help more and varied leaders thrive. Her collaborators have ranged from early-stage tech founders to Fortune 50 executives to public-sector leaders building national competitiveness. She has spent the last twenty years building and leading mission-driven enterprises, serving most recently as CEO and founder of GenePeeks, which addressed the urgent need for better personal health information.

Content

Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader’s Guide to Solving Hard Problems (HBR Press, October 2023); Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone and You (HBR Press, 2020) and Uncommon Service (HBR Press, 2012).

NATIONALITY: American

Media picks

Verdict

“Frances and Anne provide an original and revolutionary shift of emphasis in the great leadership debate.”

Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50

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