Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Economist and author
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist and author who founded the Center for Talent Innovation. She wrote Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit and Success.
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Born 1946
About Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist and author. She founded the Center for Talent Innovation and Hewlett Consulting Partners LLC. Her work on talent management has focused on women, minorities and other groups that were once excluded from the workplace. Hewlett studied at Cambridge University as a Kennedy Scholar and earned a PhD in economics at London University. She has taught at Cambridge, Columbia and Princeton universities. In the 1980s she became the first woman to lead the Economic Policy Council, a nonprofit group of business and labor leaders. Her books include When the Bough Breaks, which won a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award, and Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit and Success.