Full Name
Tsedal Neeley, Ph.D
Job Title
Naylor Fitzhugh Professor, Business Administration | Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Research
Company
Harvard Business School
Speaker Bio

Tsedal Neeley is Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research, and Faculty Chair of the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Business School. She is recognized as one of the Forbes Future of Work 50, Thinkers50, and 100 people transforming business. She focuses on leading transformation through digital innovation and global expansion and regularly conducts research and advises organizations on scaling cultural change. 

Dr. Neeley’s teachings have garnered millions of views online. Her popular online courses, Remote Work Revolution for Everyone and Leading in a Remote Environment (with Ronald Heifetz), have had over 100,000 students. She teaches extensively in executive education and has authored several best-selling HBS cases, including Managing a Global Team, which is the most widely used case worldwide on global and virtual work, as well as her patented software simulation on global collaboration. In addition, she has authored three award-winning books on organizations, technology, and transformation, including Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere.

Prior to her academic career, she spent a decade working for companies like Lucent Technologies and The Forum Corporation. 

Dr. Neeley is a recipient of the Charles M. Williams Award for Outstanding Teaching in Executive Education, two-time recipient of the Greenhill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Harvard Business School, and recipient of the School of Engineering Lieberman Award. She serves on the board of Brightcove, Brown Capital Management, Rakuten Group Inc., and The Partnership Inc. 

She received her doctor of philosophy in management science and engineering from Stanford University.
 

Tsedal Neeley, Ph.D