Christopher Meyer

Chief Executive, Monitor Networks

Christopher Meyer is Chief Executive of Monitor Networks, a new addition to The Monitor Group. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Monitor Group is a family of professional service firms comprising management consulting, financial services, and capital and advisory services. Monitor Networks is a "human capital intermediary," providing Monitor and its clients access to leading thinkers in business and science, and offering these individuals attractive opportunities.

Chris also writes and speaks about the trends shaping business and economic developments. His most recent book is It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business. He has also co-authored Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy and Future Wealth with Stan Davis, and contributed to publications such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Fast Company, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Business 2.0.

Chris' recent research and consulting have focused on the development of the Adaptive Enterprise, helping companies create the capacity to sense, respond, learn, and adapt to changes in their business environments. Related projects include assessing the feasibility of reducing the risk of financial fraud using an approach modeled on the immune system; recruiting a highly diverse advisory board for a health care company; and creating an immersive conference for an innovation group to help keep them focused on weak signals from the future.

Prior to joining The Monitor Group, Chris was the Director of the Center for Business Innovation at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, from 1995 until its closing in December 2002. The Center's mission was "to anticipate and shape the future of business." The CBI accomplished this work by conducting research, fostering the conversation of leading issues among the business community, developing public conferences, establishing new services and businesses, and sharing what it learned with the marketplace.

Before joining Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, he was a Vice President and Group Head at Mercer Management Consulting, where from 1984 to 1995 he founded and built the firm's practice in the information industries, comprising telecommunications, hardware, software, and information services and media. He led relationships with several of the firm's leading clients-some spanning ten years-helping corporations pioneer concepts of capability-based strategy, horizontal and process management, and the nature of business in the information economy. His group won awards for service excellence from AT&T and Texas Instruments.

Chris holds a B.A. in both Mathematics and Economics from Brandeis University and a M.B.A. (with Distinction) from The Harvard Business School. In addition, he held a University Predoctoral Fellowship in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.