Jan 13 2025
Bestselling author and co-founder of the Management Lab, Polly LaBarre is a sought-after keynote speaker who specializes in building organizational resilience and unlocking human potential.
Today’s world is awash with profound change, Polly LaBarre helps leaders creatively respond to the forces buffeting their organizations. A bestselling author, speaker, and thinker who has advised top global organizations, Polly’s mission for the past 20 years has been to make every kind of organization fundamentally more resilient, innovative, and inspiring. She is also well-known for her keynote and motivational speaking. Polly LaBarre is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Polly LaBarre’s fees.
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After graduating from Yale University, Polly Labarre was a member of the original team at Fast Company magazine, where she played a central role in the remarkable success of a magazine that recast the conventional wisdom on working, leading, and winning.
However, over the past 20 years, she has been focused on something else entirely. Polly LaBarre developed and honed a framework for organizational capability and innovation. She is a co-founder of Management Lab, a firm that helps organizations accelerate change. She spent over ten years conducting experiments in “hacking management” and developing her methodology for accelerating change.
Her insights embolden and equip leaders at every level to make a meaningful impact. Polly is an inspiring and provocative voice on the big ideas and important questions that will shape the future of organizations, work, and collective progress.
Polly’s writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Fast Company, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and The Huffington Post. She is also a co-author of the bestseller Mavericks at Work: Why The Most Original Minds in Business Win. In fact, The Economist called it a “Book of the Year” and “a pivotal work in the tradition of In Search of Excellence and Good to Great.”
In addition to frequent television appearances on CNBC, PBS’s Nightly Business Report, Good Morning America, and the Today Show, Polly 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.
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A sought-after speaker, moderator, and interviewer, Polly has delivered hundreds of keynote addresses around the world and hosted numerous events. On top of moderating or hosting, she also delivers keynotes on the following topics:
A monster wave of change has set off a vast reckoning with our beliefs about every aspect of how and where work gets done. Every leader today must grapple with the inescapable imperative to create and embrace a comprehensive agenda for meaningful change in the design of work and the interconnected urgent challenges of our time – deep inequities, structural dehumanization, and environmental calamity.
In this keynote, Polly LaBarre takes leaders on a journey across this new landscape. During her speech, she will inspire the audience with fresh thoughts on leadership and equip them with powerful new approaches for this new work order.
Recipes for Reinvention & Resilience
Who hasn’t been rocked by change in the last few years? While we’ve all been forced to rethink, adjust, and adjust again, the gravitational pull of the status quo remains a stealthy enemy of innovation.
What does it take to wake up an organization’s inner insurgent? To change ahead of change?
These times demand every organization dramatically amp up its agility, inventiveness, and adaptability. Drawing on her research and work inside some of the world’s most innovative and progressive organizations, Polly LaBarre lays out actionable strategies for building a perpetual innovation engine.
Designing Work to Create a Cultural Advantage
Today’s whirlwind of challenges – pandemic, social turbulence, economic uncertainty, looming climate catastrophe – has revealed just how inhospitable our organizations are to the human beings who work inside them. It’s not enough to ask which is the right hybrid work policy. It’s time to ask: what organizations would we design if we genuinely believed in the inherent value, fundamental goodness, and unlimited potential of every person?
Short answer: they’d be very different.
In this talk, Polly LaBarre reveals the rules for designing an organization that accesses its full creative and human potential.
Develop People, Defeat Disruption
Change is an inside-out job. It’s not about reacting to external events or chasing trends, so much as it’s about developing your adaptability – your elasticity, maturity, plasticity, openness, emotional dexterity, regulatory power, and more.
Organizations that deliberately develop that capacity in every individual shore up their resilience. In other words, when individuals in an organization thrive, the organization thrives. But how can organizations foster an environment conducive to human growth?
Polly LaBarre guides the audience through the ways top organizations invest in human flourishing and offers up a short course in “adult development.”
We can’t thank you enough. Your message that today’s leaders can come from all directions and different roles and that power is a product of contribution, not position, resonated deeply with our clients. We will follow up with a formal thank you with great stats and feedback from the conference, but we wanted to send you this note ahead of time because we can’t express our gratitude enough for being the keynote speaker at our conference. – Bank of America
The room was full, attendees were snapping pictures of your slides – clearly you hit a sweet spot. Thank you so much for being here and inspiring our partners to innovate. – Content Manager, Microsoft Inspire
She was warm and well received. Attendees also loved how she kept the concepts simple and digestible. We loved having her. – Senior Director, HireVue
but you completely exceeded them! You were absolutely brilliant on all fronts: content, delivery, timing, storytelling, and more. Everyone I talked to cited your talk as the highlight of our conference. – CEO, Perkins+Will
