Dr. Becca Clanton, Ed.D., is the producer of The Practitioner-Scholar: The PennCLO Podcast at the University of Pennsylvania. She brings research and practice together in conversations for today's leaders. Becca has spent nearly two decades developing leaders. In 2024, she co-founded Back to Human Partners, a human-centered learning and leadership development consultancy. She led the learning and talent development function for the Americas region at WSAudiology. She spent a decade at Huron Consulting Group, where she grew from consultant to global learning and organizational effectiveness leader. She holds an MBA from DePaul University in Change Management and a B.A. in Economics from Michigan State. In 2025, she earned her Doctor of Education in Organizational Learning and Leadership from Penn with double distinction. Her research examines how organizations can better support and retain mothers returning from maternity leave. Her writing has appeared in Chief Learning Officer. As an executive coach and consultant, she knows the questions leaders are asking, and they shape every episode she produces. Beyond work, Becca is a volunteer and community organizer who advocates for children and public education in the Twin Cities, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. Connect with her on LinkedIn or Back to Human Partners' website.

Dr. Jess Jones is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Penn Chief Learning Officer (Penn CLO) doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. A graduate of the program herself, she previously served as its academic director of onboarding and as contributing faculty. Today she leads program strategy, the student experience, and curriculum innovation for executive doctoral learners. Her teaching and scholarship center on leadership development, psychological safety, organizational learning, and executive education. Her dissertation examined psychological safety and power dynamics in business-to-business healthcare sales, and her current research explores how people create psychologically safe environments without relying on positional authority. She has published and presented on leadership, inclusion, emotional intelligence, and organizational transformation for both academic and practitioner audiences. Dr. Jones brings more than 20 years of executive leadership and consulting experience in professional services to her work, including a role as chief operating officer of a firm's Leadership Services Division. She has guided healthcare organizations and academic medical centers across the United States through organizational transformation, leadership development, change management, and strategic growth. She is also a trained executive coach and a certified Prosci ADKAR change management practitioner.

María Luisa García Underwood is an organizational leader and strategist with more than 35 years of experience building and leading programs that expand opportunity for underserved communities. Her career spans frontline practice, program leadership, and executive-level advising, with a consistent focus on turning equity commitments into operational reality. She currently leads partnerships with educators and school leaders across New York City, working with institutions serving preschool through 12th grade. In this capacity, she advises organizational leadership on strategy, program design, and implementation, helping institutions align practice with mission and sustain change beyond individual initiatives. Underwood's leadership experience includes directing programs, serving as a college adjunct instructor, and spending the past 15 years developing and coaching educators. That coaching work has made talent development a throughline in her career: she builds the internal capacity that allows organizations to improve without relying on outside intervention. Her specialties include transformative literacy practices, asset-based approaches to second-language acquisition, and instructional systems that serve multilingual learners and families historically excluded from opportunity. She holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, where her research examined how early-career professionals navigate systemic barriers within institutions. This work continues to shape her approach to retention, onboarding, and culture. Outside her professional work, García Underwood enjoys dancing, music, travel, and time with family.

Dr. Raghu Krishnamoorthy is a scholar-practitioner whose 40-year career spans corporate HR leadership and doctoral education. From 2022 to 2026 he was Senior Fellow and Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Chief Learning Officer (PennCLO) doctoral program. There he shaped the curriculum, led faculty and admissions, and chaired dissertations on leadership, learning, and the future of work. He has also taught at Wharton and been guest faculty at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Yale, and Columbia. Before moving into academia, Raghu spent 25 years at General Electric, with HR roles in India, Hong Kong, London, and the United States. He was CHRO of GE Aviation, Chief Talent and Learning Officer at Crotonville, GE's leadership institute, and CHRO of GE Healthcare. He then became Chief Human Resources Officer of GE, leading HR for a $120 billion company with an HR organization of 4,000 people. Earlier in his career he held HR roles at American Express Bank, Modi-Xerox, and Escorts in India. His research looks at the future of work, the workplace, and the worker. His doctoral dissertation, on how leader behaviors affect employee engagement in virtual work, was awarded distinction, and his research won the Academy of Business Research's Best Paper Award in 2020. He writes often for Harvard Business Review and co-edited Leaders as Architects of Change (Routledge, 2026) with Sharon Ravitch. Raghu has advised and consulted with several organizations, including Boeing, Kraft Heinz, Tech Mahindra, Takeda, and the Tata Group. He sits on the board of IIM Ahmedabad's Ashank Desai Center for Learning and Organizational Development. He holds an Ed.D. and M.S.Ed. from Penn and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and was a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow under the Fulbright program.

Dr. Sharon Ravitch is a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Ravitch’s research, advising, teaching, and learning design integrate human and organizational development, psychology, anthropology, leadership, management, and organizational theory. Ravitch is a GIAN Scholar of the Government of India and Fulbright Specialist. Ravitch is a global leadership and organizational diagnostics expert working with leaders, teams, and organizations to cultivate organizational sensemaking practices for cultural excellence. She teaches and coaches executives across sectors and global contexts, designing and conducting leadership development with global leaders at the Wharton Business School’s Executive Education hub and the Yale School of Management. Ravitch’s approach to sustainable, assets-based organizational development and applied research is grounded in her decades-long experience serving as a senior advisor to global executives, leaders, and policymakers across government, corporate, non-profit, and non-governmental sectors working to drive sustainable change at the individual, community, state, and national levels. Dr. Ravitch has published nine books on leadership and qualitative methods including: Leaders as Architects of Change: Designing Organizations for Connection and Resilience in Times of Uncertainty (2026); Leadership Mindsets for Adaptive Change: The Flux 5 (2023); Flux Leadership: Real-Time Inquiry for Humanizing Educational Change (2022); Qualitative Research: Bridging the Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological (2021/2016); Applied Research for Sustainable Change: A Guide for Education Leaders (2019); Reason and Rigor: How Conceptual Frameworks Guide Research (2017/2012); Matters of Interpretation: Reciprocal Transformation in Therapeutic and Developmental Relationships with Youth (1998). Her two current books focus on humanizing AI in organizations and systems. Ravitch earned two master’s degrees from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology, mentored by Dr. Carol Gilligan, and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in anthropology and education

Gwen Mdinaradze is an entrepreneur, guest lecturer, and doctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work explores how organizational learning and culture shape strategic decisions, contribute to competitive advantage, and prepare organizations for a rapidly changing future. She is the founder and CEO of EdBridge, an organizational development firm that serves as an external learning leadership team. Its faculty and practitioners conduct organizational assessments, analyze data, and develop leaders through executive education, facilitated discussions, and applied learning. By examining how people experience their work alongside business priorities, EdBridge identifies where leadership, culture, and capability gaps affect performance and designs learning programs to address them. Gwen’s approach connects research with leadership practice, helping organizations turn what they learn into changes in how they decide and operate. At Penn, her doctoral research examines how organizational learning opportunities shape senior leaders’ strategic decision-making in ways they perceive as contributing to competitive advantage. This inquiry informs her work on the Learning Economy, where organizations’ ability to learn and adapt becomes central to their future. She developed the LEARN Framework—Listen, Examine, Activate, Reconfigure, and Navigate—to connect learning with organizational action. She is developing her forthcoming book, The Learning Economy. Gwen holds a master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Harvard University and contributes to Forbes through the Forbes Coaches Council. She is coauthoring a book with Penn professor Dr. Sharon Ravitch exploring the cultural gap between leaders’ intentions and employees’ lived experiences. Her writing makes research accessible to leaders responsible for change. A first-generation graduate student, immigrant, and mother of three, Gwen brings an understanding of starting over and navigating unfamiliar systems. Across her scholarship and professional work, she helps leaders recognize the knowledge within their organizations, translate learning into strategic decisions, and build the capabilities needed to compete as technology, markets, and expectations change.

Julio Zelaya is the keynote speaker senior teams trust for their most decisive moments. A bilingual, bicultural voice for both Americas, he helps organizations make the decisions that define what comes next, combining Penn-level academic rigor, real-world AI expertise, and stage energy that moves a room. Julio is Academic Director of the "Implementing AI in the Classroom" program at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, where he also serves as faculty, and Senior Principal in the Innovation & AI Practice at The RBL Group. Each year he works with close to 125,000 leaders in more than 20 countries. In 2026, Education Technology Insights featured him on the cover of its "Leadership Perspectives" edition as a "Judgment Education Architect," alongside his article "When Intelligence Gets Cheap, Judgment Gets Expensive." An educator for 27 years (he started teaching at 19), Julio is also a serial EdTech entrepreneur. He co-founded Escolaris, Guatemala's first accredited online K–12 school, and Bright Domino, and he built and sold his first company. He is the author of five #1 Amazon bestsellers in Spanish, has co-authored with Steve Forbes and Brian Tracy, and his work has been endorsed by Marshall Goldsmith, Kevin O'Leary, and Verne Harnish. He holds an MSEd from Penn GSE, where he is completing his EdD, an MBA from INCAE, and a doctorate in Human Dynamics and Mental Health. He is a CALI X-Ponential Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and a member of EO. His forthcoming book, The Voltage Mismatch, explores how the person you share your life with shapes everything else, including how you lead and how you work. Two things most audiences don't know: at age 10, he was mayor of Guatemala City for a day, and he has written and produced more than 50 original songs. His work comes down to one idea: design the moment, win the outcome.

With a career spanning diverse domains including communications, consulting, higher education, and work-based learning leadership, Dr. Ann Schulte is a versatile executive with mastery in driving impactful change within individuals and organizations. Throughout her extensive experiences, she has honed specific practices for achieving transformative growth outcomes. Notably, she held the position of Chief Learning Officer, spearheading award-winning talent development organizations at two global powerhouses: MasterCard and Procter & Gamble. After retiring from P&G in 2024, she continues to shape the landscape of organizational capability, change, and culture through consulting, teaching and executive coaching. Dr. Schulte is currently an academic director for the business block in the executive doctoral program for organizational learning (PennCLO) at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Becca Clanton, Ed.D., is the producer of The Practitioner-Scholar: The PennCLO Podcast at the University of Pennsylvania. She brings research and practice together in conversations for today's leaders. Becca has spent nearly two decades developing leaders. In 2024, she co-founded Back to Human Partners, a human-centered learning and leadership development consultancy. She led the learning and talent development function for the Americas region at WSAudiology. She spent a decade at Huron Consulting Group, where she grew from consultant to global learning and organizational effectiveness leader. She holds an MBA from DePaul University in Change Management and a B.A. in Economics from Michigan State. In 2025, she earned her Doctor of Education in Organizational Learning and Leadership from Penn with double distinction. Her research examines how organizations can better support and retain mothers returning from maternity leave. Her writing has appeared in Chief Learning Officer. As an executive coach and consultant, she knows the questions leaders are asking, and they shape every episode she produces. Beyond work, Becca is a volunteer and community organizer who advocates for children and public education in the Twin Cities, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. Connect with her on LinkedIn or Back to Human Partners' website.

Dr. Becca Clanton, Ed.D., is the producer of The Practitioner-Scholar: The PennCLO Podcast at the University of Pennsylvania. She brings research and practice together in conversations for today's leaders. Becca has spent nearly two decades developing leaders. In 2024, she co-founded Back to Human Partners, a human-centered learning and leadership development consultancy. She led the learning and talent development function for the Americas region at WSAudiology. She spent a decade at Huron Consulting Group, where she grew from consultant to global learning and organizational effectiveness leader. She holds an MBA from DePaul University in Change Management and a B.A. in Economics from Michigan State. In 2025, she earned her Doctor of Education in Organizational Learning and Leadership from Penn with double distinction. Her research examines how organizations can better support and retain mothers returning from maternity leave. Her writing has appeared in Chief Learning Officer. As an executive coach and consultant, she knows the questions leaders are asking, and they shape every episode she produces. Beyond work, Becca is a volunteer and community organizer who advocates for children and public education in the Twin Cities, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. Connect with her on LinkedIn or Back to Human Partners' website.

Dr. Bridie Fanning is a business transformation HR executive with experience in senior consulting and CHRO roles and a 30-year track record of revitalizing companies to accelerate profitability and growth. Her expertise lies at the intersection of digital and talent, driving improved business outcomes, aligning organizational culture with strategy, and helping organizations navigate the New Digital Age. She has worked with clients around the world to strengthen people capabilities through differentiated talent strategies, enhanced strategic HR capabilities, and transformed global operating models that leverage innovative technology and improve service delivery. Bridie has held senior HR leadership positions at Fortune 500 public companies, private equity-backed firms, startups, and newly listed organizations. She served as a Senior Advisor to Boston Consulting Group’s People & Organization practice and was a founding member of Softcard, a worldwide pioneer in mobile wallets acquired by Google in 2015 and relaunched as Android Pay. She spent over a decade at General Electric (GE) in several senior HR roles, including CHRO for GE Retail Consumer Finance, now Synchrony Financial. She also lived and worked in Switzerland, Poland, and the Czech Republic, where she served as CHRO for GE Capital. A frequent global speaker on the changing nature of work and building talent capabilities for superior performance, Bridie has guest lectured at Cornell University’s ILR School and the University of Wisconsin’s Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business. Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, co-designed and developed with the Wharton Business School, examined how companies are adapting to the New Digital Age.

Dr. Jess Jones is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Penn Chief Learning Officer (Penn CLO) doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. A graduate of the program herself, she previously served as its academic director of onboarding and as contributing faculty. Today she leads program strategy, the student experience, and curriculum innovation for executive doctoral learners. Her teaching and scholarship center on leadership development, psychological safety, organizational learning, and executive education. Her dissertation examined psychological safety and power dynamics in business-to-business healthcare sales, and her current research explores how people create psychologically safe environments without relying on positional authority. She has published and presented on leadership, inclusion, emotional intelligence, and organizational transformation for both academic and practitioner audiences. Dr. Jones brings more than 20 years of executive leadership and consulting experience in professional services to her work, including a role as chief operating officer of a firm's Leadership Services Division. She has guided healthcare organizations and academic medical centers across the United States through organizational transformation, leadership development, change management, and strategic growth. She is also a trained executive coach and a certified Prosci ADKAR change management practitioner.

Dr. Jess Jones is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Penn Chief Learning Officer (Penn CLO) doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. A graduate of the program herself, she previously served as its academic director of onboarding and as contributing faculty. Today she leads program strategy, the student experience, and curriculum innovation for executive doctoral learners. Her teaching and scholarship center on leadership development, psychological safety, organizational learning, and executive education. Her dissertation examined psychological safety and power dynamics in business-to-business healthcare sales, and her current research explores how people create psychologically safe environments without relying on positional authority. She has published and presented on leadership, inclusion, emotional intelligence, and organizational transformation for both academic and practitioner audiences. Dr. Jones brings more than 20 years of executive leadership and consulting experience in professional services to her work, including a role as chief operating officer of a firm's Leadership Services Division. She has guided healthcare organizations and academic medical centers across the United States through organizational transformation, leadership development, change management, and strategic growth. She is also a trained executive coach and a certified Prosci ADKAR change management practitioner.

Dr. John "Coach" Havlik, CAPT, U. S. Navy SEAL (Retired), is the CEO of JRH Consulting in Tampa, FL, offering consulting on building and leading high-performance teams and individuals. John graduated from West Virginia University with a B.S. in Business Administration. He was a 4-year swimming letterman. In 2017, he was inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame, and in 2018, John was inducted into the Mountaineer Legends Society, WVU’s sports Ring of Honor equivalent. John enlisted in the Navy and served at the U.S. Naval Academy as a swim coach/physical education instructor. He was later commissioned as a naval officer and completed Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training. His career military assignments included a full range of worldwide duties in the SEAL and special operations community, including leadership at the SEALs’ most elite operational special mission unit. While in the Navy, John received an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in Newport, RI. He also received both his Ed.D. and M.S.Ed. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in the Chief Learning Officer Executive Doctoral program. John co-authored The Leadership Killer: Reclaiming Humility in an Age of Arrogance, which focuses on humility as a fundamental leadership attribute.

Dr. Karen Bicking is a senior Human Resources and Talent Management leader with more than 20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and FinTech industries. She currently serves as Head of Talent Management at CompoSecure, where she leads strategies to strengthen culture, accelerate skill development, and build robust succession and enterprise talent plans. Prior to joining CompoSecure, she held progressive HR and talent leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, Teva, and Bausch & Lomb. Her work spans leadership development, team effectiveness, organizational design, and learning strategy, with a focus on turning research into practical solutions. She also designs and facilitates workshops that help leaders and teams build trust, navigate conflict, and work together more effectively. Karen earned her doctorate through the Chief Learning Officer Executive Doctoral Program at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a master's degree in human resources management and a bachelor's degree in economics from Rutgers University. In 2026, she contributed a chapter, "The Emotionally Intelligent Organization: Trust, Conflict, and Connection in Virtual Teams," to the new book Leaders as Architects of Change.

Dr. Keith Keating is a keynote speaker, workforce futurist, author, and Chief Learning Officer at BDO Canada. For more than 25 years, he has helped organizations and leaders build the capability to learn, adapt, and create greater value. His career has included leadership roles and work with organizations such as McKinsey, HSBC, General Motors, Hearst, and BDO Canada. Keith is the author of The Trusted Learning Advisor and Hidden Value: How to Reveal the Impact of Organizational Learning. He is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor and teaches in the University of Pennsylvania’s Chief Learning Officer doctoral program. A high school dropout who later earned a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, Keith believes deeply in the power of learning to change lives. His work challenges leaders to future-prepare their people by building continuous learners, problem solvers, and value creators.

Dr. Lucrecia Grandolini is an organizational psychologist, leadership advisor and facilitator with over 15 years of international experience helping leaders navigate complexity, strengthen organizational culture and turn insight into meaningful action. Her work explores a central question: how can leaders create the conditions for people and organizations to thrive amid uncertainty? Formerly Global Head of Learning at Investec, Lucrecia led the learning and leadership strategy for 8,500 employees, building development programs that strengthened leadership readiness, supported succession and developed capabilities for the future of work. She also partnered with senior executives on organizational change, culture, and AI and data learning. Drawing on a career spanning management consulting at Deloitte, senior corporate leadership and clinical psychology, she combines commercial understanding with deep insight into human behavior. Today, she designs and facilitates executive workshops, leadership programs and team interventions for global organizations and business schools, including ABB, Boehringer Ingelheim, NN Group, IE Business School and Nyenrode Business University. Her approach brings together research, dialogue and practical experimentation, helping leaders question assumptions, build trust and respond more thoughtfully to change. Lucrecia holds a doctorate in Learning and Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and an MSc in Organizational and Social Psychology from the London School of Economics, both awarded with distinction. She also holds a BA in Clinical Psychology from Universidad Católica Argentina, where she graduated summa cum laude. Her doctoral research examined how senior leaders navigate uncertainty and turn it into opportunities for learning, growth and innovation. She is also a co-author of books on human skills, leadership and organizational change.

María Luisa García Underwood is an organizational leader and strategist with more than 35 years of experience building and leading programs that expand opportunity for underserved communities. Her career spans frontline practice, program leadership, and executive-level advising, with a consistent focus on turning equity commitments into operational reality. She currently leads partnerships with educators and school leaders across New York City, working with institutions serving preschool through 12th grade. In this capacity, she advises organizational leadership on strategy, program design, and implementation, helping institutions align practice with mission and sustain change beyond individual initiatives. Underwood's leadership experience includes directing programs, serving as a college adjunct instructor, and spending the past 15 years developing and coaching educators. That coaching work has made talent development a throughline in her career: she builds the internal capacity that allows organizations to improve without relying on outside intervention. Her specialties include transformative literacy practices, asset-based approaches to second-language acquisition, and instructional systems that serve multilingual learners and families historically excluded from opportunity. She holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, where her research examined how early-career professionals navigate systemic barriers within institutions. This work continues to shape her approach to retention, onboarding, and culture. Outside her professional work, García Underwood enjoys dancing, music, travel, and time with family.

Dr. Milana L. Hogan is the Chief Talent Officer at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where she oversees the firm’s talent strategy, including training and career development programs, performance evaluations, diversity initiatives, legal human resources, paralegals and analysts, secretaries, and the firm’s worldwide recruiting efforts. She joined Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in 2006. In addition to her work at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Dr. Hogan serves as a liaison to the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession where she helped to launch the Grit Project in 2014. In addition to her work with the ABA, Dr. Hogan was a board member of the Professional Development Consortium for ten years, including a two-year term as Chair. She is also a member of the Career Advancement & Management Committee of the NYC Bar and was recently inducted as a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management (class of 2026). Dr. Hogan published her first book, Grit, The Secret to Advancement, in 2017, and she is a contributing author to PLI’s Stepping It Up: A Guide for Mid-Level Law Firm Associates, which was published in 2020. Dr. Hogan also served as the lead researcher and author of the ABA’s Gritty Teams Report, which was published in April of 2023. She is a frequent speaker and presenter and has delivered many high-impact training programs around the world for law firms, law schools, bar associations and public and private corporations, including Goldman Sachs, Harvard and Yale Law Schools, and the New York City Bar Association. She is currently working on her second book, which is scheduled to be published in late 2027. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Brown University and her Doctor of Education from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in New Canaan, Connecticut with her husband and their four children.

Margaret D “Peg” Klein currently serves as a Professor in the College of Leadership and Ethics at the U.S. Naval War College. She served as the Dean of Leadership and Ethics from 2017 through 2022. Before that, she completed a 35-year career as a Naval Flight Officer where she held squadron, wing, and group command. In 2011, Klein commanded an amphibious force in successful combat operations (Odyssey Dawn) in the Mediterranean Sea. She served as the 82nd Commandant of Midshipmen at the US Naval Academy, Klein graduated from the US Naval Academy, she holds a master’s in education leadership and earned a doctorate from the Chief Learning Officer program at University of Pennsylvania in 2021. Klein serves on the boards of one non-profit organization and one publicly traded company. She and her husband of 44 years are the proud parents of two adult children and one grandson.

Most organizations say they want leaders who can adapt amid uncertainty. Phillip Ellis actually knows how. For over two decades, he’s designed collaborations across disciplines, bringing stakeholders with competing incentives to the table to navigate problems no single perspective can solve. His work on systems of knowing has been featured by Brookings and New America, shaping how leaders think about what happens when different ways of knowing collide. Here’s the uncomfortable truth at the center of his work: the unconscious agreements you inherited are running the show. Most leaders have never examined them. Phillip has spent his career helping them start. He’s an adviser and Lecturer at Penn’s Executive Doctorate in Chief Learning Officer program, where he teaches senior leaders to rethink how organizations actually learn. His chapter in Leaders as Architects of Change, recently published by Routledge, distills that lesson into a framework leaders can use right now. Phillip holds an Ed.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where his dissertation examined how epistemic thinking shapes a team’s capacity to collaborate on wicked problems. His next book, The Seeing Gap, co-written with Penn’s Dr. Sharon Ravitch, turns that lens on AI. Phillip and Sharon are writing it in the open on Substack, inviting readers to help shape it as it takes form. When he’s not writing or teaching, he’s on stages and in rooms with leadership teams, designing communities and immersive workshops that help organizations stop talking about adaptability and start practicing it.

Dr. Raghu Krishnamoorthy is a scholar-practitioner whose 40-year career spans corporate HR leadership and doctoral education. From 2022 to 2026 he was Senior Fellow and Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Chief Learning Officer (PennCLO) doctoral program. There he shaped the curriculum, led faculty and admissions, and chaired dissertations on leadership, learning, and the future of work. He has also taught at Wharton and been guest faculty at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Yale, and Columbia. Before moving into academia, Raghu spent 25 years at General Electric, with HR roles in India, Hong Kong, London, and the United States. He was CHRO of GE Aviation, Chief Talent and Learning Officer at Crotonville, GE's leadership institute, and CHRO of GE Healthcare. He then became Chief Human Resources Officer of GE, leading HR for a $120 billion company with an HR organization of 4,000 people. Earlier in his career he held HR roles at American Express Bank, Modi-Xerox, and Escorts in India. His research looks at the future of work, the workplace, and the worker. His doctoral dissertation, on how leader behaviors affect employee engagement in virtual work, was awarded distinction, and his research won the Academy of Business Research's Best Paper Award in 2020. He writes often for Harvard Business Review and co-edited Leaders as Architects of Change (Routledge, 2026) with Sharon Ravitch. Raghu has advised and consulted with several organizations, including Boeing, Kraft Heinz, Tech Mahindra, Takeda, and the Tata Group. He sits on the board of IIM Ahmedabad's Ashank Desai Center for Learning and Organizational Development. He holds an Ed.D. and M.S.Ed. from Penn and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and was a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow under the Fulbright program.