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# Lynda Gratton

**Profile.** Lynda Gratton is a **professor of management practice at [[entity-org-london-business-school|London Business School]]** and the author of the research study distilled in this vault. Her scholarship focuses on the *future of work, longevity, organizational behavior, and career design*. Her London Business School faculty profile is the canonical institutional reference.

**Role in this source.** Primary author and researcher. She designed and piloted the [[entity-midcareer-pilot-program|10-week midcareer pilot program]] and authored the [[entity-org-harvard-business-review-d110|Harvard Business Review]] article 'Research: As Careers Get Longer, Midcareer Work Needs to Change' (May 2026). She is also author of the forthcoming book [[entity-living-100-year-life]] (September 2026).

**Attributed contributions in this vault.**
- Core claims: [[claim-systemic-cohort-burnout]] · [[claim-identity-over-performance]] · [[claim-midlife-change-paradox]] · [[claim-reflection-alters-trajectory]] · [[claim-midcareer-burnout-peak]]
- Framework: [[framework-midcareer-recalibration]]
- Concepts: [[concept-pivotal-40s]] · [[concept-50-60-year-career]] · [[concept-capacity-for-calm]] · [[concept-identity-laboratories]] · [[concept-horizontal-stretch]]
- Quotes: [[quote-gratton-systemic-cohort]] · [[quote-gratton-midlife-paradox]]

**Adjacent work (from enrichment).** Her MIT Sloan Management Review essay argues the three-stage life is giving way to a *'multistage life'* with more transitions and discontinuity — the closest adjacent frame for the [[concept-pivotal-40s]] argument.

> Related: [[entity-org-london-business-school]] · [[entity-living-100-year-life]] · [[entity-midcareer-pilot-program]]