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Polly LaBarre

Co-Author, Mavericks at Work | Founding Member, Fast Company

Polly LaBarre
Create an Environment That Inspires
Building the Capacity to Change
Polly LaBarre
Skip the Change Initiative
You're Not a Leader Because You Have a Title
Freedom at Work Inspires Performance
Polly
Polly LaBarre
Polly LaBarre
Create an Environment That Inspires
Building the Capacity to Change
Polly LaBarre
Skip the Change Initiative
You're Not a Leader Because You Have a Title
Freedom at Work Inspires Performance

For nearly 20 years, Polly LaBarre has worked to embolden and equip leaders to ramp up originality, invention, and game-changing disruption. Co-author of the bestseller, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win, and founding team member of Fast Company magazine, she is an energetic speaker who leaves her audiences with actionable lessons from organizations and leaders who are transforming their cultures and industries. She inspires people to engage and reimagine the challenges they face, become fearless experimenters, and rethink leadership.

As a founding member of Fast Company magazine, LaBarre played a central role in the remarkable success of a magazine that recast the conventional wisdom on power, competition, work, leadership, innovation, and change.

As co-founder of the Management Lab, LaBarre has spent the last decade working to develop a methodology, platform, and practical tools for building organizational capability and accelerating change. She and her colleagues deployed that pioneering approach to collaborative innovation in a range of large-scale experiments in “hacking management” inside leading companies and across a global community of some 35,000 management innovators.

Besides her bestselling book and work at Fast Company, LaBarre’s writing has also appeared in a variety of publications, including Fast Company, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune.com, the McKinsey Quarterly, and she has served as business and innovation correspondent for CNN.

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Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

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  • Polly was really good. She packed A TON in and I was sitting next to two people who absolutely loved her and her message. She did such a perfect job of customizing her speech to the audience and to her bike family cred – it was spot on.

  • I would like to tell you that the Planetree audience loved your presentation!  Great job!   I heard comments that you were the best keynote we have ever had by far!  Thank you again for the presentation and also meeting with our staff afterwards.  It was sensational!

  • Thanks so much, Polly was a HUGE hit. We couldn’t have asked for a better suited speaker. So much so that a lot of our attendees are asking for the video footage of the day so they can re-watch it.

  • Thanks so much for coming to Santa Barbara for our NBC retreat.  You were both energetic and inspiring – and, trust me, I would have been thrilled to have one or the other!  You gave us a lot to think about and you set the perfect tone for a lot of the issues that are facing us right at this moment.

  • Thanks again for speaking at our Women’s Leadership Forum. Your remarks made quite an impact with our younger leaders, in particular. I spoke with several of them later and they were so energized by your talk, they are off implementing change!

  • Many thanks for the session you ran for us on Friday.  As you could tell – it was energizing and fun and I really think it helped to move the ball forward for us. Not only did it surface some great ideas we can adopt immediately but we learned how to hack problems and opportunities which I hope will become part of our DNA!

  • Polly was the perfect addition to our conference.  Her keynote was the ideal complement to those that both preceded and followed her.  She was very approachable, engaging and a true pleasure to work with – both for the accompanying speakers and the technical and production teams. The rave reviews continue to roll in.

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