Professor Scott Snell is the Eleanor and Philip Rust Professor of Business Administration and former Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business. He teaches courses in strategic management and works internationally with senior executives to help their companies align strategy, execution capability, and organizational transformation. His research has been published in a number of top journals, and he is an author of several books, notably The CEO Playbook for Strategic Transformation (Stanford Press, 2024), Strategic Execution: Driving Breakthrough Performance in Business (Stanford Press, 2019), and Managing Human Resources (Cengage, 2022). He currently serves on the board of directors for SHRM, and has served on the boards of the Strategic Management Society’s Human Capital Group, HRPS, the SHRM Foundation, the Academy of Management’s HR Division, the Academy of Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review.