Trustee

The Kresge Foundation has appointed Dr. Linda Hill to its 12-member board of trustees, which serves as the governing body overseeing the foundation’s financial management, operations, grantmaking, and social investing. 

Dr. Linda Hill currently serves as the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), where she also serves as faculty chair of its Leadership Initiative. Hill is an internationally recognized authority and academic on the topics of leadership and innovation. Her research and consulting focuses on leadership development, leading change and innovation, and implementing global strategies. She was named by Thinkers50 as one of the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2013 and 2021 and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015. Hill is the author or co-author of several award-winning articles and books including: Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader, and Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership. 

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 & 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 HBS and earned a PhD in behavioral sciences at The University of Chicago. She has a bachelor’s degree in arts in psychology from Bryn Mawr College.

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