Publications

"Nancy Koehn on Leadership Lessons from Rep. John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement"
Harvard Kennedy School's Journal GrowthPolicy
October 25, 2021
"We need a COVID-19 D-Day—and the leadership to execute it"
Fast Company
Nancy Koehn and Dutch Leonard
September 24, 2020
"History teaches 3 essential leadership lessons for our current crisis"
Fast Company
June 2, 2020
"How History's Great Leaders Managed Anxiety"
Harvard Business Review
May 11, 2020
“What FDR, Churchill, and Shackleton can teach us about leadership during the coronavirus crisis”
Fast Company
April 3, 2020
“Real Leaders Are Forged in Crisis”
Harvard Business Review
April 3, 2020
“Leadership Forged in Crisis”
Leader to Leader
September 13, 2018
“How to Lead Like Abraham Lincoln According To A Harvard Historian”
Quartz at Work
July 30, 2018
“The Leadership Journey of Abraham Lincoln”
McKinsey Quarterly
May 31, 2018
"Conversation: Nancy Koehn, PhD '90"
Colloquy, Harvard Magazine for Alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
February 1, 2018
“Here’s what a leader should never do…”
Pasadena Star-News
January 26, 2018
“Here’s what a leader should never do…”
The Orange County Register
January 26, 2018
“Here’s what a leader should never do…”
The Los Angeles Daily News
January 26, 2018
“America is seduced by ‘leadership bling’ and lacks true leaders”
CNN
November 9, 2017
"How leaders are shaped"
Harvard Gazette
November 2, 2017
"Nancy Koehn: Best Selling Author, Harvard Historian, Speaker, & Leadership Coach"
The Native Society
October 17, 2017
"How Five Great Leaders Dealt With Crisis And What We Can Learn From Them"
Quartz
October 8, 2017
“How deep personal crises turned a president, an escaped slave, a polar explorer, an environmental crusader, and a Nazi resister into iconic leaders”
LinkedIn
October 6, 2017
“Five Leaders Forged in Crisis, and What We Can Learn From Them”
HBS Working Knowledge
October 4, 2017
Forged In Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
Scribner
October 3, 2017