Caroline Webb

Caroline Webb is an executive coach, author and speaker who is one of the world's leading experts in using insights from behavioral science to help people improve their professional lives. Her bestselling book on that topic, How To Have A Good Day, has been published in 17 editions and over 60 countries. She is also a Senior Advisor to McKinsey, where she was previously a Partner. During her 12 years at McKinsey & Company, Caroline specialized in helping leaders achieve transformational change in their organizations and teams. She co-founded McKinsey’s leadership practice, designed the firm's approach to transforming top team dynamics, led the firm's work on organizational effectiveness in the healthcare sector, and drove the expansion of the firm's work on personal leadership effectiveness. She also founded and remains faculty of McKinsey's flagship leadership development course for senior female executives. Before that, Caroline spent the 1990s working in public policy as an economist at the UK's central bank, the Bank of England. Her work there included working closely with the Monetary Policy Committee as author of the Inflation Report, global economic forecasting, and institution-building in post-communist Europe. Caroline is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, and her work is included in the 'HBR Guide to Dealing With Conflict' and 'HBR Guide to Being More Productive.' Her work has been widely featured in the media, including in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, Inc., Forbes, Fortune, and BBC Radio. She has also written on behavioral change topics for the World Economic Forum, Fast Company, Quartz, Business Insider, Psychology Today, Behavioral Scientist, and WIRED. She has guest lectured at Harvard, Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, LBS and NYU, where her book is a core text of the 'Work, Wisdom & Happiness' course. Caroline is a Founding Fellow of the Institute of Coaching at McLean/Harvard, one of Marshall Goldsmith’s '100 Coaches,' a Senior Expert with Mobius, and a member of the Silicon Guild. She sits on the Advisory Boards of Ethical Systems and The Constructive Dialog Institute, two non-profit behavioral science organizations dedicated to improving the quality of discourse and behavior in business and education.