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Biography
Caroline Webb (born 1971) is a British author, economist and executive coach. Her 2016 book How to Have a Good Day, argued that insights from behavioral economics, psychology and neuroscience can be used to improve working life. She is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, and has also written for Fast Company, WIRED, Quartz, Business Insider and the World Economic Forum. Her work has been featured widely in the media, including the Financial Times, The Economist, the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, and BBC Radio.
Education
Caroline Webb graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1992 with a first class Bachelor’s degree in economics. She received her MPhil from the University of Oxford in economics in 1997. From 1987 to 1989, she attended Atlantic College.
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. She was also one of the authors of the Bank of England’s “Inflation Report”.
In 2000, Webb joined McKinsey & Company, and was made a Partner in 2008. Her work centered on organizational change and leadership development, including executive coaching. She was one of the creators of McKinsey’s leadership service line in 2004. She also set up McKinsey’s Remarkable Women Program, a course for senior female executives.
In 2012, Webb founded Sevenshift, a coaching and consulting firm specializing in increasing workplace performance and wellbeing through application of insights from behavioral science. She remains an external Senior Adviser to McKinsey.
How to Have a Good Day
In 2016, Webb published How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life. In it, Webb explains how to apply findings from the behavioral sciences to daily tasks and routines, to more effectively navigate typical challenges of the modern workplace. The book has been published in over 60 countries and is being translated into 15 languages. It appeared on a number of “best of” book lists in 2016, including those in Forbes, Fortune and INC.
Personal
Webb lives in New York with her husband.