Tammy Erickson

Tamara J. Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author and a widely respected authority on new approaches to leadership, the changing workforce, collaboration and innovation, and the nature of work in intelligent organizations. Her work in Design Thinking grew out of her deep commitment to understanding better approaches to innovation. She collaborated with the Royal College Art to develop a programme specifically focused on the application of Design Thinking to leadership challenges and designed and lead the first programme offered to Degree candidates at London Business School on Design Thinking.

She has five times been named one of the 50 most influential living management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, the respected ranking of global business thinkers. Her leading-edge work is consistently showcased in the prestigious Global Drucker Forum, an international conference of prominent business leaders. She has authored five books and numerous widely-cited articles.