Polly LaBarre

Polly LaBarre is a best-selling author, speaker, television correspondent, and strategist who has contributed to the business conversation for over 15 years. She is an inspiring and provocative voice on the big ideas and important questions that will shape the future of organizations, work, and success.

As a co-founder and editorial director of the MIX (Management Innovation eXchange), LaBarre is putting her passion for making the realm of human endeavor more productive and more fulfilling to the test. The MIX is a pioneering open innovation project dedicated to reinventing management for the 21st century. The initiative, which aims to leverage the collaborative power of Web 2.0 to accelerate the development of Management 2.0, gathers celebrated thought leaders, in-the-trenches innovators, and maverick entrepreneurs from around the world to share breakthrough practices and advance important ideas about the future of organizations, work, and strategy.

LaBarre is the co-author of the bestselling book Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win, which The Economist named a Book of the Year and called "a pivotal work in the tradition of In Search of Excellence and Good to Great." The book has since been published in 16 countries around the world.

A member of the original team of Fast Company magazine, where she was senior editor for the better part of a decade, LaBarre was recently 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.

A sought-after speaker, moderator, and interviewer, Polly LaBarre has delivered hundreds of keynote addresses around the world and her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Fast Company, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Business Review, Fortune.com, the McKinsey Quarterly, and The Huffington Post. Her widely syndicated blog, Fresh MIX, convenes important thinkers, progressive practitioners, and agenda-setting ideas about 21st-century organizations. LaBarre has presented her ideas in forums ranging from a regular commentary on PBS's Nightly Business Report to CNBC's "The Business of Innovation" series to frequent segments on ABC's World News This Morning and Good Morning America.

LaBarre is at work on a book about the future of organizations, social innovation, and sustainable capitalism—a provocative and inspiring point of view about what it means to win when good is the new measure of great. She serves on the board of advisors of TakingITGlobal, the leading online community for connecting and empowering young people to make a difference in the world. LaBarre is a graduate of Yale University.