Hal GregersenSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Hal Gregersen is a prominent leadership expert, author, and Senior Lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management. He previously served as Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center. A Thinkers50-ranked management thinker and winner of the 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award for Leadership, Gregersen focuses on how questioning drives innovation and solves complex problems. He developed the “Question Burst” method: a structured alternative to brainstorming that helps leaders and teams ask better questions to spark breakthroughs. He co-authored the bestseller “The Innovator’s DNA” (2011), which identifies five key skills of disruptive innovators, and wrote the Nautilus Award-winning “Questions Are the Answer” (2018). His work has influenced companies like Disney, Salesforce, Patagonia, and Chanel. Through research that includes interviews with leaders such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, as well as extensive leadership databases, Gregersen helps organizations build cultures of inquiry and innovation.