Megan Reitz

Megan Reitz is a leading consultant, who specialises in leadership, mindfulness and dialogue as the Founder and Director of Reitz Consulting. Focusing her research on the connection of mindfulness practice to leadership capacities, Megan is an expert on how leadership and dialogue are constructed within organisations – making her an expert on workplace culture and organisational behaviour. Megan is now highly sought after as a speaker for a range of corporate events, hired to share her influential perspectives on leadership, mindfulness, change, culture and ‘speaking truth to power’.

Now leading a highly prosperous career, Megan entered the working world as a Consultant for The Kalchas Group and a Director of Supplier Strategy for Boo.com. In 2000, Megan began working as a Manager in the People and Change Service Area of Deloitte, with whom she worked for six years learning the inner workings of the workplace culture of a large organisation. In 2009, Megan returned to education to study for an MRes in Leadership and a PhD in Leadership and Dialogue from the Cranfield School of Management, along with duties as a Doctoral Researcher at Cranfield University. With her newfound expertise in leadership and dialogue, Megan was appointed as the Professor of Leadership and Dialogue for Ashridge Executive Education at Hult International Business School – a role that she has dedicated almost two decades to.

Since 2012, Megan has dedicated her career to the research of how we meet, hear, see, learn and speak with each other in organisational settings, along with how workforces can encourage dialogue that is more humane and empowers people to flourish in corporate settings. Her most recent work has been with John Higgins on Speaking the Truth to Power, research in which she studies perceptions of power and how they can both enable or silence people. This research has been the subject of her TEDx Talk How Your Power Silences the Truth and her bestselling book Speak Up: Say What Needs to Be Said and Hear What Needs to Be Heard – a book that saw Megan shortlisted for CMI Management Book of the Year 2020. In addition, Megan has authored two other books titled Mind Time: How Ten Mindful Minutes Can Enhance Your Work, Health and Happiness and Dialogue in Organizations: Developing Relational Leadership. Megan’s revered work has also seen her featured in Forbes and in the Harvard Business Review.

Listed as one of the Top 50 Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 and one of HR’s Most Influential Thinkers 2021, Megan is now highly sought after to share her expertise on all things leadership, management, dialogue and change management at corporate events. In addition to her commitments to Reitz Consulting, Megan has also been an Associate at Mindfulness Works with Michael Chaskalson, an Executive Coach with The School of Coaching and is qualified by the British Psychological Society to deliver psychometric instruments. Dedicated to initiating generative change, Megan empowers action, inquiry and reflection on making dialogue more humane. Having also delivered the TEDx Talk How to Lead in the New Era of Employee Activism, Megan is a seasoned speaker who is perfectly positioned to cover the topics of mindful leadership, speaking the truth to power, dialogue, engagement, resilience and leadership in the 21st Century. When looking for an expert on leadership and dialogue to speak at your next event, hire Megan Reitz today!