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Rita McGrath

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Do a Better Job Seeing Around Corners

Rita designs her talks to help inspire and energize participants to see uncertainty in business as an opportunity.

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Do a Better Job Seeing Around Corners

Rita designs her talks to help inspire and energize participants to see uncertainty in business as an opportunity.

Learn About Rita

The feedback I received so far is ‘fantastic, mind-blowing’, such a smart fast thinking strategic person.

Elisabeth Drzaic-Lan
CEO, Innovators Serendipity Academy

Despite the virtual setting, your insights generated great engagement and comments from leaders sharing eye-opening observations and building on your examples throughout. You delivered the inspiration and illustration desired and it was exactly the right focus and challenge for this team. The future-focus theme was the perfect close to our leadership summit.

Rui Barbas
CSO, Nestle

Thanks again for being such a brilliant supporter of Brightline.
It was a wonderfully invigorating session!

Ricardo Vargas
Brightline

Keynotes, Workshops & Webinars

Engaging, fun and fast-paced, Rita’s keynote speeches, workshops and webinars are often described as the high point of an event setting the foundation for discussion throughout. Rita will customize her content to the audience’s specific interests making sure that attendees leave with actionable insights.

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Fireside Chats

I regularly invite special guests to join me for live, virtual Friday Fireside Chats.  These are hour-long conversations about timely topics featuring authors, entrepreneurs, business leaders and well-known thinkers.  The conversations are recorded, and you can replay them on my YouTube channel.

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About Rita McGrath

Rita McGrath is a best-selling author, sought-after speaker, and longtime professor at Columbia Business School. As one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth, Rita’s work is regularly published in the Harvard Business Review. She is consistently ranked among the Top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50.  Rita is the author of the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). Her most recent book is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). Follow Rita on Twitter @rgmcgrath and LinkedIn.

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Hear More from Rita

Rita regularly posts about topics that spark her thinking – what we call “thought sparks.”  You can subscribe to receive regular email updates.

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Thought Sparks

The Digital Deception Economy: How Bot Farms Distort Social Signals

The Digital Deception Economy: How Bot Farms Distort Social Signals

April 29, 2025

In a digital environment, sentiment has become currency. How customers, investors, and the public feel about your content directly affects performance metrics, from revenues to reputation to stock price. But what happens when that sentiment… Read more »

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Have business books jumped the shark? The “peak book” hypothesis

Have business books jumped the shark? The “peak book” hypothesis

March 25, 2025
Interns! We have interns! Welcome to the tribe

Interns! We have interns! Welcome to the tribe

March 11, 2025
The Benefits of Bureaucracy: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Red Tape

The Benefits of Bureaucracy: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Red Tape

February 25, 2025
The Digital Deception Economy: How Bot Farms Distort Social Signals

The Digital Deception Economy: How Bot Farms Distort Social Signals

April 29, 2025
Have business books jumped the shark? The “peak book” hypothesis

Have business books jumped the shark? The “peak book” hypothesis

March 25, 2025
Interns! We have interns! Welcome to the tribe

Interns! We have interns! Welcome to the tribe

March 11, 2025

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