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Gary Hamel Biography

Gary Hamel is a private consultant, author, speaker, and visiting professor of strategic management at the London Business School. As an originator of the concept of 'core competencies', a theory he developed with C.K. Prahalad, Hamel has carved a distinct path in the realm of strategic management. Notably, he has also contributed to the nonprofit sector as the director of the Woodside Institute, a California-based research foundation, and is the founder of Strategos, an international strategy and innovation consulting firm.

Hamel is recognized by reputable business publications as an expert in international business strategy. The "Wall Street Journal" ranked him as the world's most influential business thinker, and "Fortune" magazine described him as the world's leading expert on business strategy. "The Financial Times" hailed him as a management innovator without peer. His influence extends to prestigious conferences and leading media outlets like CNBC and CNN, where he frequently shares his insights.

His books include "Humanocracy" (2020), "What Matters Now" (2012), "The Future of Management" (2007), "Leading The Revolution" (2000), and "Competing For the Future" (1994). Hamel's "The Future of Management" was recognized by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year in 2007. He has been a prolific contributor to the Harvard Business Review, being its most reprinted author. Hamel's work focuses on strategic planning, innovation, leadership, and future trends, fundamentally aiming to help organizations become as nimble as change itself and capable of continuous innovation and strategic renewal. He is committed to shaping the future of management by highlighting the challenges and opportunities facing the business world.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/22/2025.

Gary Hamel Speaking Topics

  • Innovation from Everyone, Every Day

    Every human being has within them a creative spark, yet our organizations harness only a fraction of that latent imagination. While 79% of leaders rank innovation as a top priority, 94% say their organizations aren’t as innovative as they need to be. What gives? If innovation is so important, why do most companies struggle with it? Because few of them have taken a systematic approach to making innovation instinctive for every individual and intrinsic to the organization itself. For innovation to become a genuine core competence, organizations must …

    Build creative capital. While most people have creative instincts, it takes practice to learn to think like a gamechanger. You wouldn’t expect someone to hit a golf ball 200 yards down the fairway without a bit of training. So it is with innovation. The quickest way to increase the innovation output of any company is to teach everyone how to upend conventional thinking, intercept emerging trends and invent novel solutions to deep customer needs.

    Re-tool the management model. Over the past decade, many companies re-engineered their operating model for speed and efficiency. Few, though, have retooled their management model for innovation. This is now an imperative. Every management system—planning, resource allocation, performance management, compensation and training—must facilitate rather than frustrate innovation. Companies that fail to take a systematic approach to this challenge will soon find themselves preempted by their competitors and abandoned by their customers.

    Over the past three decades, Gary Hamel has taught hundreds of thousands of individuals how to imagine and build the future. He has also helped many of the world’s most admired companies design and build innovation-friendly management practices. The result: boldly creative teams and billions of dollars added to the top line.

  • Building an Evolutionary Advantage

    The winds of creative destruction are howling. Change is exponential and unrelenting. In this environment, the most important question for any organization is, “Are we changing as fast as the world around us?” Sadly, for many organizations the answer is no. Today, there are many who expect the old guard to lose. After all, in a hyper-kinetic world, resources count for less than resource-fulness, and companies that fall behind tend to stay behind.

    All too often, deep change is the product of crisis—it’s belated, convulsive and typically insufficient. The challenge, then, is to build an organization that can change as fast as change itself, that possesses an “evolutionary advantage.” Such an organization would...

    • Rush out to meet the future.

    • Change before it had to.

    • Consistently redefine customer expectations.

    • Capture more than its share of new opportunities.

    • Avoid unexpected earnings shocks.

    • Consistently out-perform competitors.

    Building an evolutionary advantage requires more than new practices—it also requires new principles. Most organizations were built on the principles of standardization, formalization, specialization, alignment and discipline. These are fine principles, but now we must embrace new principles: experimentation, openness, meritocracy, freedom and audacity. These cannot be mere buzzwords, but must be embedded deeply in structures, systems and behaviors.

    Building an evolutionary advantage may seem like a Herculean task. It’s not. In his pioneering work, Gary Hamel has demonstrated that with courage and tenacity, any company can learn to outrun change.

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Gary Hamel Videos

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Unleashing Everyday Genius with John Ferriola

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Gary Hamel | To Create an Innovation Advantage

Gary Hamel | To Create an Innovation Advantage

For organizational leaders to create an innovation advantage they first must create a human advantage. In this presentation Gary Hamel.

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Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
Strategic Intent (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Strategic Intent (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Leading the Revolution
Leading the Revolution

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Gary Hamel is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Innovation from Everyone, Every Day, Building an Evolutionary Advantage and Busting Bureaucracy, For Good. The estimated speaking fee range to book Gary Hamel for your event is $200,000 and above. Gary Hamel generally travels from Santa Cruz, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Richard Florida, Peter Guber, Ray Kurzweil, Gary Vaynerchuk and James Canton. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Gary Hamel for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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