Julia Dhar

Julia Dhar

Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group

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Julia Dhar is a Harvard-trained behavioral scientist and a managing director at Boston Consulting Group, where she founded and leads BCG’s Behavioral Science Lab. She has spent more than a decade applying experimental behavioral science — drawing from psychology, economics, and neuroscience — to large-scale organizational change, advising CEOs and leadership teams across industries and countries. Julia’s TED talks on productive disagreement and constructive conversations have been viewed more than 8.5 million times. She is a Forbes columnist and has written for The Financial Times and Harvard Business Review. She is also a member of the Aspen Institute’s Advisory Board on Social Trust and the National Advisory Board for Disagree Better. She is a coauthor of the book How Change Really Works: Seven Science-Based Principles for Transforming Your Organization

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