The mission of the Center for Talent Innovation is three-fold: to drive ground-breaking research that leverages talent across the divides of gender, generation, geography and culture; to create a community of senior executives united by an understanding that full utilization of the global talent pool is at the heart of competitive success; and to provide cutting edge design consulting to construct “next practices” which are “second-generational” and make the connection between diversity and winning in the market.

Our research and action on the ground has garnered significant attention (12 Harvard Business Review studies and numerous articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Strategy & Business, Huffington Post, etc.) which allows Task Force members to be branded as “thought leaders” in global talent management. The Task Force is comprised of more than 70 global corporations and organizations representing 4 million employees in 190 countries.

Carolyn Buck Luce is a co-founder of the Task Force on Talent Innovation, a Board Member of CTI and the Executive in Residence. Dr. Sylvia Ann Hewlett is the CEO and founder of the Center for Talent Innovation. She is the author of ten Harvard Business Review articles and ten critically acclaimed nonfiction books including When the Bough Breaks (Basic Books, winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize), Off-Ramps and On-Ramps (Harvard Business School Press, named as one of the best business books of 2007 by Amazon.com), Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down (Harvard Business Press), Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women Are the Solution (Harvard Business Press, 2011) and Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor (Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming 2013). She is ranked #11 on the “Thinkers 50” listing of the world’s 50 top business gurus. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and the International Herald Tribune, and she is a featured blogger on Harvard Business Online.

How we can work with you: Thought Leadership

Carolyn Buck Luce and Rob Evans have developed a wealth of thought leadership over the course of their career that span the areas of the Transformation of the Health Care Industry globally, Design Thinking applied to Business Model and Ecosystem Architecture, Global Talent Management and Leadership.

Rob is known for the practical wisdom that he imparts in his DesignShops® and other executive workshops. He has personally influenced more than 25,000 executives from the world’s leading companies and other organizations with what Fred Smith, founder and CEO of FedEx described as his unique brand of “energy, wit, and creativity.”

In particular, Carolyn has published articles widely on Global Talent in the Harvard Business Review and on the future of HC in Pharmaceutical Executive and EY’s Progressions annual reports on the HC industry. In her capacity as Executive in Residence at the Center for Talent Innovation she is currently leading a new research report “The Power of the Purse: The implications of the SHEconomy on the Transformation of the HC system” which will be published in Fall 2014. She is a gifted public and motivational speaker.

Speaking engagements in 2013 include Telehealthcare Leaders Forum, Generation W Conference, HBA Woman of the Year Awards, Arianna Huffington’s The Third Metric Summit, Amgen’s Women’s Leadership Conference, Auburn Seminary’s Lives of Commitment, NYC City Hall’s Women’s Network, The Association of Women CPAs, and JPMC’s Salute to Women Veterans.