Gary Hamel

Key speaking topics

• Business strategy and strategic renewal
• Core competencies and competitive advantage
• Management innovation
• Organisational transformation
• Corporate culture and organisational design
• Human-centric organisations and management models
• Leadership and organisational capability
• Innovation in large organisations

Ideal for

• Senior executives and corporate leadership teams
• Strategy, transformation, and innovation leaders
• Boards and senior management in large global organisations
• Leadership and management conferences

Audience outcomes

• Clearer understanding of strategy and competitive advantage in complex markets
• Practical perspectives on management innovation and organisational design
• Insights into building adaptable, human-centred organisations
• Frameworks for strengthening organisational capability and long-term performance
• Strategic thinking about leadership and innovation in large enterprises

Why organisations work with Gary Hamel

• Combines academic research, consulting experience, and authorship in strategy and management innovation.
• Brings recognised frameworks such as core competence and human-centred management to leadership audiences.
• Extensive experience advising major international companies on strategy and organisational change.
• Provides senior audiences with strategic perspectives on how organisations can evolve their management models and capabilities.

Biography

Gary Hamel is widely recognised for shaping modern thinking on strategy, management innovation, and organisational capability. His work has influenced how large organisations compete, innovate, and redesign their management systems to remain effective in complex and fast-changing markets.

As a long-standing member of the faculty at London Business School, where he serves as Visiting Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Hamel has spent more than three decades researching and teaching the principles that underpin successful organisations. His work bridges academic insight and practical leadership challenges, making him a trusted voice for executives navigating strategic transformation.

Hamel is best known for co-developing the concept of core competence with C.K. Prahalad, introduced in their influential Harvard Business Review article “The Core Competence of the Corporation.” The idea reshaped how companies think about competitive advantage by focusing on the distinctive capabilities that drive long-term success.

His contributions to management thinking are further reflected in a series of widely read business books, including Competing for the Future, Leading the Revolution, The Future of Management, What Matters Now, and Humanocracy, co-authored with Michele Zanini. His writing for Harvard Business Review has also made him one of the publication’s most widely reprinted contributors.

Beyond his academic and writing work, Hamel leads management innovation initiatives through the Management Lab and has been closely associated with the Management Innovation eXchange. These platforms focus on rethinking how organisations are structured and managed to unlock adaptability, creativity, and human potential at scale.

Hamel’s ideas have been shaped by extensive work with major global organisations including Microsoft, IBM, Shell, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, 3M, Best Buy, Time Warner, and General Electric. His perspectives are grounded in real organisational challenges, from strategic renewal and innovation to leadership and organisational transformation.

He is also recognised within the global management community, including being ranked in the Thinkers50 list of influential management thinkers. His work continues to inform leaders seeking new approaches to strategy, organisational design, and the future of management.