Michele Zanini is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Humanocracy and a leading advocate for reinventing how organisations are led, managed, and structured. His work challenges traditional top-down power hierarchies, arguing that bureaucracy stifles innovation and agility.
As co-founder of the Management Lab (MLab) with Professor Gary Hamel, Michele has spent over a decade helping organisations build bold, entrepreneurial, and adaptive cultures. In 2022, he and Gary launched The New Human Movement, a video series in partnership with Fast Company, featuring over 50 thought leaders reimagining work and management for the future.
Michele’s insights on leadership, organisational change, and management innovation have been featured in Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, McKinsey Quarterly, Fast Company, and Fortune. A sought-after speaker, he has addressed audiences at major conferences, including the Global Peter Drucker Forum.
Previously, Michele was a senior consultant at McKinsey & Company, specialising in strategy and organisational design, and he began his career at the RAND Corporation, focusing on international policy and security strategy.
Successfully navigating the unprecedented challenges facing your company—head-snapping competition, geopolitical uncertainty, the impact of AI, declining trust, and more—requires organizations that are as vital—as daring, resilient, entrepreneurial, and inspiring--as they be. To achieve this, we must challenge outdated management practices, which over-index on control & compliance and stifle initiative & ingenuity. In this session, we'll unpack the building blocks of a vital organization, distill practical lessons from the world most radically managed and successful companies, and learn how HR can take the lead in creating work environments that maximize human achievement.
Book Your TicketWe live in a world that seems to be all punctuation and no equilibrium, where the future is less and less an extrapolation of the past. To thrive in this age of upheaval, organizations must develop the capacity to change as fast as change itself. Building this "evolutionary advantage” requires a large cadre of inspired management innovators—individuals who can envision and prototype bold new alternatives to the management status quo. In this session, we’ll gain the necessary perspectives, skills and tools to first imagine and then design innovative approaches to allocating resources, harnessing talent, evaluating performance, building teams, and exercising control. The companies that win in the tumultuous times ahead will be the ones that evolve their management practices faster than their competitors—and in this masterclass, you will learn how to do just that.
Book Your TicketAs a follow-up to the Freedom to Flourish keynote, this interactive panel brings together several bold transformation pioneers to explore what it takes for HR to lead systemic change. The session will challenge the conventions of organisational design, performance, and leadership, offering a practical and provocative conversation about what “good” looks like when HR steps into its full moral and strategic potential.
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