Henry Timms

Henry Timms is Chief Executive Officer of Brunswick Group, the world’s leading critical issues advisory firm.

Henry has a proven track-record leading and transforming major organizations, as well as advising CEOs and Boards on the complex issues emerging today. He is a bestselling author, and his work on the impact of social media and artificial intelligence has featured in Harvard Business Review. His book ”New Power” was named as a Book of the Year by Bloomberg, Fortune, FT and CNBC.

Before joining Brunswick, Henry served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Over five years, he transformed the Lincoln Center, both commercially and creatively, with the 65-year-old organization named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. In the face of the pandemic, Henry reimagined the organization, completing the $550 million David Geffen Hall project two years early, and building an outdoor performing arts center to serve the city during such challenging years.

He is the creator and co-founder of “Giving Tuesday”. Designed as a philanthropic counterpoint to Black Friday, it has generated over $13 billion for good causes in the US alone, and now takes place in 100 countries. 

Henry was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Arts and to Philanthropy. He is a Hauser Leader at Harvard Kennedy School, a Senior Fellow at both Stanford University and the United Nations Foundation, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.