Caroline Webb
Caroline Michelle Christine Webb is a British author, economist and executive coach. Her book, How to Have a Good Day, argued that insights from behavioural economics, psychology and neuroscience can be used to improve working life. She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, and has also written on behavioural change topics for Fast Company, Wired UK, Quartz, Business Insider and the World Economic Forum. Her work has been featured widely in the media, including in the Financial Times, The Economist, The New York Times, The Guardian, Time, Inc., Forbes, Business Insider, The Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio and ABC Radio National.
Education
From 1987 to 1989, Webb attended UWC Atlantic College, one of the United World Colleges. She graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1992 with a first class bachelor's degree in economics, and received her MPhil from the University of Oxford in economics in 1997.Career
From 1992 to 1993, Webb was a research fellow at the Levy Economics Institute. From 1993 to 2000, Webb was an economist at the Bank of England, where her work covered a range of international and domestic public policy issues, including the UK government's support to reforms in central and eastern Europe, and forecasting of the US economy. From 1998 to 2000, she was one of the authors of the Bank of England Inflation Report.In 2000, Webb joined McKinsey & Company, where she was made a partner in 2008. Her work centred on organisational change and leadership development, including executive coaching.
In 2012, Webb founded Sevenshift, a coaching and consulting firm specialising in increasing workplace performance and well-being through application of insights from behavioural science. She remains an external senior adviser to McKinsey.
In 2017, Webb became a member of the Silicon Guild, a group of thought leaders and best-selling authors who write about the ideas and trends shaping business and society. In 2017, she joined the advisory board of Ethical Systems, a non-profit organisation dedicated to practical applications of research on the value of ethics in business.