Booking Polly LaBarre

Polly LaBarre

Price Range: $20,000+
Books MAVERICKS AT WORK: WHY THE MOST ORIGINAL MINDS IN BUSINESS WIN
Topics No One Is as Smart as Everyone Strategy as Advocacy & the Next Business Agenda Unleashing the Best The Customer Revolution Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win

Polly LaBarre Booking Profile

A best-selling author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Polly LaBarre is an inspiring and provocative voice on the big ideas and important questions that will shape the future of organizations, work, and success. As a co-founder and editorial director of the MIX (Management Innovation eXchange), LaBarre puts her passion for making human endeavors more productive, creative, and fulfilling to the test. The MIX is a pioneering open innovation project dedicated to re-inventing management for the 21st century. The initiative, which aims to leverage the collaborative power of Web 2.0 to accelerate the development of Management 2.0, gathers celebrated thought leaders, in-the-trenches innovators, and maverick entrepreneurs from around the world to share breakthrough practices and advance important ideas about the future of organizations, work, and strategy. LaBarre is the co-author of the best-selling book Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win, which The Economist named a Book of the Year and called “a pivotal work in the tradition of In Search of Excellence and Good to Great.” It has been published in 16 countries around the world. She was a member of the original team of Fast Company magazine, where she was senior editor for the better part of a decade. More recently, she has been a business and innovation correspondent for CNN where she produced regular segments on big ideas and best practices from the world of business and beyond. LaBarre has delivered hundreds of keynote addresses around the world and her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Fast Company, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review online, Fortune.com, The McKinsey Quarterly, and The Huffington Post. Her widely syndicated blog, The Fresh MIX, convenes important thinkers, progressive practitioners, and agenda-setting ideas about 21st-century organizations. LaBarre has presented her ideas in forums ranging from a regular commentary on PBS’s Nightly Business Report to CNBC’s “The Business of Innovation” series to frequent segments on ABC’s World News, This Morning, and Good Morning America.

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