Figuring out how to do hybrid work well isn’t always easy…
But that’s where the experts come in. We’ve put together a list of top hybrid work influencers to follow in 2025 — the researchers, authors, consultants, and business leaders who are helping shape the future of work — all in one place.
Top hybrid work influencers to follow in 2025
Liz Ryan
Liz Ryan is a former Fortune 500 HR leader who now helps people and companies create more human, kind, and flexible workplaces. She’s the founder and CEO of Human Workplace, a global community and coaching firm focused on bringing heart and humanity back into work. With over 3 million members around the world, Liz’s work inspires people to take control of their careers and helps businesses build cultures based on trust, empathy, and flexibility, especially in hybrid work environments.
Liz is also a popular LinkedIn Top Voice and the author of several books like Reinvention Roadmap and Righteous Recruiting. She writes and speaks about how we can shift the way we work to better fit today’s world — where people want meaningful work, more freedom, and the ability to grow.
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr.
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. is the President and CEO of SHRM, the world’s largest organization for HR professionals, with members in 180 countries. He’s a powerful voice in today’s world of work, especially when it comes to topics like hybrid work, leadership, and building healthy workplace cultures. Johnny regularly speaks to government leaders, writes a weekly advice column in USA Today called Ask HR, and is the author of the bestselling book RESET: A Leader’s Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval, which shares smart, practical tips for leading through big changes — like the shift to remote and hybrid work.
Before leading SHRM, Johnny held executive roles at major companies like Paramount Pictures and Blockbuster, and he brings a mix of legal, business, and people experience to his work. He believes hybrid work can really succeed when companies focus on flexibility, fairness, and inclusion. He’s also passionate about making sure everyone, regardless of background or gender, has an equal chance to grow at work.
Jacob Morgan
Jacob Morgan is a globally recognized voice on the future of work, leadership, and employee experience. He’s a keynote speaker, podcast host, and the author of five bestselling books, including The Future Leader and The Employee Experience Advantage.
Jacob works closely with top business leaders around the world through his platform, The Future Organization, and the global Future of Work Leaders community. He shares practical advice on how leadership needs to evolve in a world where people work from many locations, not just the office.
Nick Bloom
Nick Bloom is one of the most trusted voices in the remote and hybrid work space. He’s a professor at Stanford University and has spent over 20 years researching how flexible work affects both employees and companies. Nick co-founded WFH Research, a project that shares helpful data and insights about working from home. His goal is simple: to help people and businesses make hybrid work, well, work.
Nick’s research has shown that hybrid work can be a win for everyone — it helps people stay in their jobs longer, keeps performance strong, and can even boost productivity. One of his most well-known studies looked at 1,600 employees at Trip.com and showed that hybrid schedules had no negative effect on performance, and actually helped with retention. He’s also advised hundreds of company leaders on how to make hybrid work successful.
Lynda Gratton
Lynda Gratton is a professor at London Business School and one of the world’s top thinkers on the future of work. She’s spent years helping people and companies understand how work is changing, and how to make the most of it. Through her company, HSM Advisory, she works with businesses around the world to design hybrid work strategies that put people first. Her advice is all about creating flexible, fair, and productive ways of working that benefit both employees and employers.
Lynda has written ten books, including The Shift, The 100-Year Life, and most recently, Redesigning Work — a guide to making hybrid work well for everyone. Her work has been translated into over 20 languages and has won global awards. She’s also a trusted voice on the world stage, serving on expert councils at the World Economic Forum and advising global leaders on how to shape the future of work.
Heather E. McGowan
Heather E. McGowan is a top voice in the future of work and is known for helping leaders and teams navigate change with empathy, flexibility, and a forward-thinking mindset. She’s a bestselling author (The Adaptation Advantage and The Empathy Advantage), a keynote speaker, and a trusted guide for organizations adapting to hybrid work and digital transformation.
Described by The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman as “the oasis” of future work insights, Heather helps people prepare for a world that’s constantly shifting—what she calls a “VUCA” world (that stands for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous).
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is a well-known expert in hybrid and remote work strategy, helping companies around the world design flexible work models that actually work. He’s the CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, a future-of-work consultancy, and the author of books like Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams. Gleb is often featured in publications like Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fortune for his fresh, research-based take on how hybrid work can be successful when it’s designed with intention.
What makes Gleb stand out is his use of brain science and behavioral psychology to guide his advice. He helps companies understand things like “proximity bias”—where people in the office get more attention than those working remotely — and how to build strong team culture across distances. Gleb believes that hybrid work isn’t just about tweaking old office habits; it needs a whole new mindset, one that puts flexibility, fairness, and performance first.
Darren Murph
Darren Murph is one of the most well-known voices in remote and hybrid work. Called the “oracle of remote work” by CNBC, Darren helped shape how large companies can succeed without a traditional office. He led GitLab’s all-remote strategy, where over 1,700 people across 60+ countries worked together successfully, without a single company-owned office. At GitLab, he wrote the famous Remote Playbook, showing exactly how to build a strong, connected team using clear communication, documentation, and flexible schedules.
Now at Zillow, Darren continues to guide companies on how to create hybrid and remote work cultures that are intentional, inclusive, and productive.
Tracy Brower, PhD
Tracy Brower is a sociologist and workplace expert who helps people and companies make work more meaningful, especially in the age of hybrid work. She’s the Vice President of Workplace Insights at Steelcase, where she uses research and data to understand how office spaces can support connection, collaboration, and well-being — whether people are in the office full-time, part-time, or working remotely. Tracy believes that the way we design our workplaces plays a big role in how happy and productive we are at work.
She’s also a speaker, author, and regular contributor to Forbes, Newsweek, and Fast Company. Her two books — Bring Work to Life and The Secrets to Happiness at Work — share ideas on how we can bring more joy, purpose, and balance to our work lives.
Jeanne Meister
Jeanne Meister is a leading expert on the future of work and a big name in the world of workplace strategy. She’s the founder of Future Workplace, and she’s spent years advising top HR and learning leaders on how to create work environments that support both business success and employee well-being. She believes hybrid work should give people choice, but also come with clear expectations — what she calls “guardrails.”
Jeanne has written for top publications like Harvard Business Review and Forbes, and co-authored the book The 2020 Workplace. She often talks about how flexible workspace technology, coaching, and smart leadership can make hybrid work more effective. On top of that, she’s received several big awards for her work in workplace learning and talent development. Jeanne now works as an independent consultant, helping companies and universities understand the changing world of work.
Prof. Dr. Johanna Bath
Johanna Bath is a hybrid work expert based in Germany who helps senior leaders and companies design smarter, more people-focused ways of working. With over 15 years of experience in consulting and corporate roles, Johanna now leads Talentista Now, a company that supports tech startups and large businesses in creating hybrid work models that improve performance, employee satisfaction, and retention. She’s also a business school professor, speaker, and trusted advisor to executives navigating workplace change.
Johanna believes that hybrid work isn’t just a leftover from the pandemic — it’s a powerful opportunity to rethink how we work. She helps leaders move away from crisis mode and build clear, strategic hybrid models that work for the long term.
Sacha Connor
Sacha Connor is a true pioneer in the world of hybrid and remote work. She’s the CEO and founder of Virtual Work Insider, a company that teaches leaders how to manage and support teams that aren’t all in the same place. Sacha has over 18 years of experience leading large business teams, including eight years working fully remotely at The Clorox Company. In fact, she was the first remote member of a leadership team there and even co-founded Clorox’s first virtual workforce group, which grew to include hundreds of employees around the world.
Today, Sacha helps big companies like Cisco, Sephora, and Toyota build stronger, more connected hybrid teams.
Sara Sutton
Sara Sutton is a longtime champion of remote and hybrid work. She’s best known as the founder and former CEO of FlexJobs, a job platform that’s helped millions of people find flexible, remote-friendly careers — well before remote work became mainstream. Because of her early and passionate support for work-from-home options, she’s often called the “queen of remote work.” Sara also launched other helpful platforms like Remote.co and 1 Million for Work Flexibility to spread awareness and share best practices for flexible work.
For over 25 years, Sara has been leading at the intersection of technology, innovation, and the future of work. She believes that remote and hybrid work can improve people’s lives by offering better work-life balance and opening up more career opportunities, no matter where someone lives.
Laurel Farrer
Laurel Farrer is a global expert on remote and hybrid work, with nearly 20 years of experience helping companies and governments build smarter, more effective ways to work virtually. She’s the founder of Distribute Consulting and the Remote Work Association, both of which focus on making remote and hybrid work better for businesses and employees alike. Laurel works with big names like Zoom, Microsoft, and GitLab, and she’s been featured in major media like BBC, NPR, and The New York Times.
What makes Laurel stand out is her deep understanding of how to make hybrid work successful, not just with tools and tech, but with strong people strategies too. She helps companies build better onboarding, improve team communication, support inclusion, and create long-lasting virtual work cultures. She also writes regularly for Forbes and speaks at events around the world, sharing practical advice for leaders who want to get hybrid work right.
Nola Simon
Nola Simon is a leading expert in hybrid and remote work who’s been helping companies get it right for over a decade. She’s worked with global businesses, managed relationships worth over $1 billion, and learned firsthand that hybrid work isn’t just about where people work — it’s about how they stay connected and supported.
Recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice in 2024, Nola is praised for being “the voice of the unheard employee” and for helping leaders build trust and clarity in the changing world of work. She hosts the popular Hybrid/Remote Centre of Excellence podcast and speaks at top conferences, sharing smart, down-to-earth advice on how to make hybrid work better for everyone.
Prithwiraj Choudhury
Prithwiraj Choudhury is a leading expert on flexible work and a professor at Harvard Business School. He’s been studying how people work for over 10 years, and he’s best known for helping shape the idea of “work from anywhere.” Prithwiraj believes that where you live shouldn’t limit where you can work, and his research shows that giving people this freedom can actually help companies perform better.
In one of his best-known studies, Prithwiraj looked at the U.S. Patent Office and found that letting employees work from anywhere led to a 4% boost in productivity. He also wrote an influential article in Harvard Business Review called “Our Work-from-Anywhere Future,” which showed how big companies can succeed even with globally distributed teams. Prithwiraj is a strong supporter of hybrid and borderless work models, where businesses hire the best people, no matter where they live, and give them the flexibility to do their best work from wherever they are.
Berenika Teter
Archie's Content Manager, fueled by filter coffee and a love for remote work. When she’s not writing about coworking spaces and hybrid workplaces, you can probably find her exploring one.
