Tsedal Neeley

Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research Strategy, and Faculty Chair of the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School. Her work focuses on how leaders can scale their organizations by developing and implementing global and digital strategies. She regularly advises top leaders embarking on virtual work and large-scale change involving global expansion, digital transformation, and becoming more agile.

As an instructor, she heads and teaches the first-year required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course in the MBA program, which focuses on effective leadership and aligning people behind a common vision. Alongside Bill George and Krishna Palepu, she co-chairs the executive offering, Leading Global Businesses, designed to help top leaders develop emerging and mature market strategies in a digital and global economy.

Tsedal has co-authored the book "The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI" and authored the book "Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere," providing remote workers and leaders with best practices for performing at the highest levels in their organizations. She has been recognized as one of Forbes's Future of Work 50 and Business Insider's 100 People Transforming Business.

Aside from her academic duties, she serves on the Board of Directors of Brightcove, Brown Capital Management, Harvard Business Publishing, and the Partnership Inc. Her expertise in remote work and global communication make her a sought-after speaker with extensive international experience and fluency in four languages.

Tsedal's work has been widely covered in media outlets such as BBC, CNN, Financial Times, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist. Her HBS case, "Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems," is one of the most used cases worldwide on the subject of virtual work. She is a recipient of the prestigious Charles M. Williams Award for Outstanding Teaching in Executive Education, the Greenhill Award for outstanding contributions to Harvard Business School, and the Emerald Literati Outstanding Author Award.

Before her academic career, Tsedal spent a decade working for companies like Lucent Technologies and The Forum Corporation in various roles, from strategies for global customer experience to business flow analysis for telecommunication infrastructures. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering, specializing in Work, Technology, and Organizations.