Lynda Gratton is one of the best-known names in UK business. She teaches at the prestigious London Business School, leading the school’s executive programme ‘Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Organisations’, and is a consultant to several multi-national companies. She is also recognised as one of the UK’s best-known experts in human resource strategy, and has written several highly influential business titles.

What led her to be interested in business, and to HR specifically? Gratton says that she came to teaching through an interest in ‘helping people understand and reach their own potential’, an enthusiasm that first began during her university study of psychology.

‘Basically I have always been interested in the idea of self-actualisation, and in human potential. The core of that is learning – I believe that we can all become lifelong learners’, she says. Of course, ‘lifelong learning’ is just one of many phrases that is used about the learning and development world, but Gratton goes further to explain. ‘To me, that means being the best that you can be. I always say that every person has a potential that can be engaged with and developed into something worthwhile that they can continue to develop throughout their life’.

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