Harvard Business Review to Host the 2025 HBR Leadership Summit on April 29

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harvard Business Review will hold the 2025 HBR Leadership Summit, a virtual, full-day event, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.

A premier event for purpose-driven business leaders, the Summit will convene top executives and management thinkers to explore how leaders can deliver on both their mission and bottom line amid constant change. The program will feature live conversations with global CEOs and mini-masterclasses with leading academics, with sessions covering strategy, AI, talent development, navigating uncertainty, and more.

ThreatLocker and Reltio are contributing sponsors of the Summit, with Upwork serving as supporting sponsor.

A partial list of confirmed speakers includes:

Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon (pre-recorded)
Priscilla Sims Brown, President & CEO, Amalgamated Bank
Thomas Buberl, CEO, AXA
David Risher, CEO, Lyft
Anish Shah, Group CEO and Managing Director, Mahindra Group
Ron Shaich, CEO & Managing Partner, Act III Holdings; Founder, Panera; Chair, CAVA; and author of Know What Matters
Janti Soeripto, CEO, Save the Children US
Jane Sun, CEO, Trip.com Group (pre-recorded)
Stephanie Creary, Assistant Professor, The Wharton School
Kevin Evers, Senior Editor, Harvard Business Review, and author of There's Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift
Heidi K. Gardner, Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Law School, and author of Smarter Collaboration
Gianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor, INSEAD
Karthik Ramanna, Professor, University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, and author of The Age of Outrage

See the full lineup and purchase your ticket here.

Media who would like to cover the event should contact Amy Poftak at apoftak@hbr.org.

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