Roger Martin is a trusted strategy advisor to CEOs of leading global companies, including Procter & Gamble, LEGO, Ford, American Express, BHP, Steelcase, Amcor, and Verizon. He is Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he served as Dean from 1998 to 2013. During his tenure at Rotman, he was also Academic Director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship (2004-2019) and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute (2013-2019). In 2013, he was named Global Dean of the Year by Poets & Quants.
Prior to joining academia, Martin spent 13 years as a Director at Monitor Company, the global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, including two years as co-head of the firm.
His research and writing span strategy, democratic capitalism, integrative thinking, business design, incentives and governance, and social innovation. He is the author of 33 Harvard Business Review articles and 13 books, including A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Managerial Effectiveness. His earlier books include When More Is Not Better; Creating Great Choices (with Jennifer Riel); Getting Beyond Better (with Sally Osberg); Playing to Win (with A.G. Lafley); Fixing the Game; The Design of Business; The Opposable Mind; and The Responsibility Virus. Getting Beyond Better and Playing to Win both won Best Management Book awards from Thinkers50.
Martin has been widely recognised for his influence on management thinking and business design. He was named one of the 27 most influential designers in the world by BusinessWeek (2010), a BusinessWeek “B-School All-Star” (2007), and one of seven “Innovation Gurus” (2005). In 2017, he was ranked the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, and he has consistently ranked among the top ten in subsequent editions.
He currently serves as Chair of The Good Jobs Institute and the I-Think Initiative, and sits on the board of The Nine Dots Prize.
Roger Martin holds a BA in Economics from Harvard College (1979) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (1981). In 2018, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the Royal Military College of Canada.
