TEDxHultAshridge | How Your Power Silences Truth
Megan Reitz
Renowned Educator, Researcher and Consultant on Leadership and Dialogue; HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinkers; Thinkers50 Radar of Global Business Thinkers; Author, “Speak Up”; Professor, Ashridge Executive Education, Hult Business School
Biography
Megan Reitz is Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Ashridge Executive Education, Hult Business School where she speaks, researches, consults and supervises on the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness. She is on the Thinkers50 radar of global business thinkers and is ranked in HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinkers listing. She has presented her research to audiences throughout the world and is the author of “Dialogue in Organizations and Mind Time” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Her latest book published in 2019 with Financial Times Publishing is called “Speak Up: Say What Needs to be Said and Hear What Needs to be Heard.”
Reitz’s passion and curiosity centres around the quality of how we meet, see, hear, speak, learn with and encounter one another in organisational systems. Her research and publications, featured in Harvard Business Review and Forbes magazine, explore the neuroscience of leadership, the links between mindfulness and leadership capacities for the 21st century and the capacity to ‘speak truth to power’ and enable others to do the same.
Before joining Ashridge, Reitz was a consultant with Deloitte; surfed the dot-com boom with boo.com; and worked in strategy consulting for The Kalchas Group, now the strategic arm of Computer Science Corporation. She was educated at Cambridge University and has a PhD from Cranfield School of Management. She is an accredited executive coach with Ashridge and The School of Coaching.
Megan Reitz is available to advise your organization via virtual and in-person consulting meetings, interactive workshops and customized keynotes through the exclusive representation of Stern Speakers, a division of Stern Strategy Group®.
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Books & Research
Speak Up: Say What Needs to be Said and Hear What Needs to be Heard
(Financial Times Publishing, 2019)
Mind Time: How Ten Mindful Minutes Can Enhance Your Work, Health and Happiness
(Harper Thorsons, 2018)
Dialogue in Organizations: Developing Relational Leadership
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
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HR’s Role in Employee Activism
March 29, 2021
The Art of Not Shutting Up But Speaking Up
December 3, 2020
Not Being Able to Speak at Work Can Cost Lives
November 12, 2020
Why Your Team Should Practice Collective Mindfulness
August 19, 2020
Meta-awareness: the Third Building Block of Mindfulness
July 10, 2018
Do You Have “Advantage Blindness”?
April 10, 2018
How to Bring Mindfulness to Your Company’s Leadership
December 1, 2016
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Reitz, MeganBiography
Megan Reitz is Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Ashridge Executive Education, Hult Business School where she speaks, researches, consults and supervises on the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness. She is on the Thinkers50 radar of global business thinkers and is ranked in HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinkers listing. She has presented her research to audiences throughout the world and is the author of “Dialogue in Organizations and Mind Time” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Her latest book published in 2019 with Financial Times Publishing is called “Speak Up: Say What Needs to be Said and Hear What Needs to be Heard.”
Reitz’s passion and curiosity centres around the quality of how we meet, see, hear, speak, learn with and encounter one another in organisational systems. Her research and publications, featured in Harvard Business Review and Forbes magazine, explore the neuroscience of leadership, the links between mindfulness and leadership capacities for the 21st century and the capacity to ‘speak truth to power’ and enable others to do the same.
Before joining Ashridge, Reitz was a consultant with Deloitte; surfed the dot-com boom with boo.com; and worked in strategy consulting for The Kalchas Group, now the strategic arm of Computer Science Corporation. She was educated at Cambridge University and has a PhD from Cranfield School of Management. She is an accredited executive coach with Ashridge and The School of Coaching.
Megan Reitz is available to advise your organization via virtual and in-person consulting meetings, interactive workshops and customized keynotes through the exclusive representation of Stern Speakers, a division of Stern Strategy Group®.
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Praise for “Speak Up”
“A powerful book on an important topic. ‘Speak Up’ helps us understand the subtle elements that contribute to our holding back valuable ideas and observations. Their TRUTH framework – which is as practical as it is rigorous – identifies essential elements to help individuals find their voice.”
– Amy Edmondson, Professor, Harvard Business School, Author, “The Fearless Organization”
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