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Siri Chilazi Keynote Speaker
- Co-author of Make Work Fair (HarperCollins, 2025) with Iris Bohnet
- Leading authority on workplace gender equality and inclusive leadership
- Contributor to Harvard Business Review, BBC, Forbes, and The New York Times
Siri Chilazi's Biography
Siri Chilazi is an author, academic researcher, and internationally recognized expert in promoting gender equality in the workplace. As a Senior Research Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School (since 2017), she examines what works—and what doesn’t—to design workplaces where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. Her life’s work blends rigorous academic research with practical applications, advancing fairness through data-driven design and behavioral science.
Siri specializes in translating cutting-edge research into actionable strategies that leaders and organizations can implement right away. Her expertise spans multiple dimensions of workplace equity, including women’s advancement, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), unconscious bias, the gender pay gap, parental leave, flexible and remote work, and talent processes such as hiring, performance evaluations, promotions, retention, and compensation.
She is the co-author, with Iris Bohnet, of Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results (HarperCollins, 2025), which provides individuals and organizations with proven, evidence-based approaches to create fairer, smarter, and more effective workplaces. As an advisor and keynote speaker, Siri collaborates with a diverse range of organizations—from start-ups and professional services firms to multinational corporations, governments, nonprofits, and academic institutions—helping them build inclusive cultures and better systems.
Her insights and research have been featured in BBC, Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and The New York Times. She has delivered hundreds of talks at global conferences and corporate events, earning acclaim for her engaging, research-grounded, and practical approach to workplace design.
Siri holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College.
Siri Chilazi's Speaking Topics
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Beyond the AI Hype: The Human Factors That Drive Performance in the Workplace of the Future
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how work gets done, but its impact is often misunderstood. As organizations ask leaner teams to achieve greater results, ineffective management practices can undermine performance more than ever before. This talk explores why fairness, inclusive leadership, and strong decision-making processes are becoming critical competitive advantages in an AI-enabled world. Drawing on research and real-world evidence, it provides leaders with practical strategies to build more effective, resilient, and high-performing organizations.
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Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results
Siri shares how to embed fairness into our everyday work using a three-part, data-backed framework and actionable solutions anyone can apply—regardless of role, seniority, or location.
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Behavioral Science for Better Decision-Making
How can leaders, teams, and organizations make smarter, fairer, and more effective everyday decisions? In this talk, Siri reveals how small, science-backed shifts in choice architecture can help.
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Busting the DEI Myths That Hold Us Back
Despite lots of talk and well-intentioned activity, our current approaches to creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces have not always translated into measurable results, nor progress at the pace many of us would like to see. In this paradigm-shifting discussion, we dive into why that is and discover a new, evidence-based roadmap for the way forward so that we can finally focus our efforts on what works to create better and fairer workplaces.
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What Works: Behavioral Science for Talent Diversity
In this engaging talk, Siri shares evidence-based, behaviorally informed strategies to hire more objectively. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she shows how leaders can redesign hiring practices for better outcomes—often quickly, effectively, and at low cost.
Why Book Siri Chilazi as a speaker?
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She helps organisations build fairer, higher-performing workplaces by translating rigorous behavioural science and data into practical strategies that improve talent, culture and business outcomes.
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She combines cutting-edge research with real-world application, equipping leaders to design more effective systems for hiring, promotion, retention and workplace inclusion.
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As a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, she specialises in evidence-based approaches to gender equality, diversity and organisational effectiveness, helping organisations move beyond intention to measurable results.
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She is the co-author of Make Work Fair, demonstrating how data-driven workplace design can create more equitable opportunities while strengthening performance, innovation and employee engagement.
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Her keynotes equip leaders with practical, research-backed tools to reduce bias, improve decision-making and build inclusive organisations where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
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