
Frances Frei
Harvard Professor | Organizational Transformation & Diversity Leadership

About
Frances Frei is a professor of technology and operations management at the Harvard Business School. An expert in organizational change and leadership, she advises Fortune 500 CEOs on driving growth, managing disruption, and building inclusive cultures.
Frei's TED talks on transforming companies through transparency and trust have reached millions, and her Harvard Business Review articles tackle complex challenges like the future of work and the new rules of leadership. Audiences gain practical frameworks for navigating digital transformation and creating high-performing, diverse teams.
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How to build (and rebuild) trust
Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it's broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it -- something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. "If we can learn to trust one another more, we can have unprecedented human progress," Frei says.
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