Philip Mirvis is an organizational psychologist whose research and practice concern large-scale organizational change, the workforce and workplace, and business leadership in society. An advisor to companies and NGOs on five continents, he has authored or edited sixteen books including his latest How to Do Relevant Research: From the Ivory Tower to the Real World and Sustainability to Social Change: Lead Your Company from Managing Risks to Creating Social Value.

Mirvis has designed corporate “consciousness raising” experiences with theater and the arts, done team building in the Rockies, Pyrenees, Alps, and Himalayas, and led corporate journeys and community service efforts in the urban U.S., Paris, London, Dubai, and Sao Paulo, in India, China, Greenland, Tanzania, and Vietnam, and among aboriginal peoples in Borneo, Paraguay, and Australia, plus multistakeholder dialogues on environmental and socio-economic issues.

Mirvis is a fellow of the Academy of Management and received its career achievement award as “Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner”. He is a research fellow at the Babson social innovation lab and lives in Ranchos des Taos, New Mexico.