Megan Reitz

Megan Reitz, MA (Cantab), MSc, MRes, PhD

Megan is Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University and Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult International Business School. She focuses on how we create the conditions for transformative dialogue at work and her research is at the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness. She is on the Thinkers50 ranking of global business thinkers and is ranked in HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinkers listing.

Megan has written Dialogue in Organizations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Mind Time (Harper Thorson, 2018) and she has just published Speak Out, Listen Up (2024) which is the second edition of her bestselling book Speak Up (2019), with Financial Times Publishing. Speak Up was shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2020.

Megan is a contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. She has presented her research on the BBC, CNBC and Deutsche Welle and she writes for numerous academic and practice-based journals. Her research on employee activism was nominated for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award 2021 and her TED talk on the topic has been viewed more than one and a half million times.

Her latest research focuses on ‘spaciousness’; how, whilst attending to the task, we can also create, hold and value the space to innovate, reflect, learn and develop relationships, in workplaces that are increasingly experienced as instrumental and addicted to busyness.

She advises leadership teams on the quality of their conversations in order to improve mindful decision-making, engagement and innovation. She is also an executive coach and a keynote speaker.

She is mother to two wonderful teenage daughters who test her regularly on her powers of mindfulness and dialogue.

Examples of her work and contact details can be found on her website and on LinkedIn.