Michael B. Horn strives to create a world in which all individuals can build their passions and fulfill their potential through his writing, speaking, and work with a portfolio of education organizations. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns; Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools; Choosing College; Goodnight Box, a children’s story; and the forthcoming
From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)creating School for Every Child, which will be released in July 2022.
Michael is the co-founder of and a distinguished fellow at the
Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a non-profit think tank. He cohosts the top education podcasts
Future U and
Class Disrupted. He is a regular contributor to
Forbes.com and writes the
Substack newsletter
The Future of Education. Michael also serves as an executive editor at
Education Next, and his work has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and NBC.
Michael serves on the board and advisory boards of a range of education organizations, including Imagine Worldwide, Minerva University, the
LearnLaunch Institute, and
Guild Education, and is a venture partner at
NextGen Venture Partners.
Michael was selected as a 2014
Eisenhower Fellow to study innovation in education in Vietnam and Korea, and
Tech&Learning magazine named him to its list of the 100 most important people in the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education. Michael holds a BA in history from Yale University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
