Emily Tedards

Emily Tedards is a graduate researcher in organizational behavior at Harvard Business School and a doctoral fellow with the Reimagining the Economy Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. She is co-author of “Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation” (March 2026), along with HBS professor Linda A. Hill and Jason Wild, former Salesforce and Microsoft executive.

Tedards studies cross-sector collaboration, organizational design and innovation. Her research examines how business, government and civil society actors collaborate to solve complex problems – from local economic development and climate change to the transformation of industries and nations. Tedards has published over 20 case studies and articles on leadership, innovation ecosystems, digital transformation, and corporate accelerators and innovation labs. She has collaborated with multinational companies, start-ups and non-profits across the globe, including Comcast NBC Universal, Delta Air Lines, Google, Mastercard, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dubai International Financial Center, African Food Changemakers, Sampark Foundation, All Nippon Airways, avatarin and Together for Sustainability.

Tedards is currently a senior consultant at Paradox Strategies and has served as a research consultant for the United Nations, Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and several non-profits and think tanks. She studied liberal studies and philosophy at New York University and earned her MSc from the London School of Economics.

Emily Tedards is available to advise your organization via virtual and in-person consulting meetings, interactive workshops and customized keynotes through the exclusive representation of Stern Speakers & Advisors, a division of Stern Strategy Group^®.