From 1992 to 1993, Webb was a research fellow at the Levy Economics Institute. From 1993 to 2000, Webb was an economist at the Bank of England, where her work covered a range of international and domestic public policy issues, including the UK government's support to reforms in central and eastern Europe, and forecasting of the US economy. From 1998 to 2000, she was one of the authors of the Bank of England Inflation Report. In 2000, Webb joined McKinsey & Company, where she was made a Partner in 2008. Her work centered on organisational change and leadership development, including executive coaching. In 2012, Webb founded Sevenshift, a coaching and consulting firm specialising in increasing workplace performance and wellbeing through application of insights from behavioral science. She remains an external Senior Adviser to McKinsey. In 2017, Webb became a member of The Silicon Guild, a group of thought leaders and best-selling authors who write about the ideas and trends shaping business and society. In 2017, she joined the Advisory Board of Ethical Systems, a non-profit organisation dedicated to practical applications of research on the value of ethics in business.
''How to Have a Good Day''
On February 2, 2016, Crown Business published How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life in North America. In the book, Webb explains how to apply findings from the behavioral sciences to daily tasks and routines, to help readers more effectively navigate typical challenges of the modern workplace. How to Have a Good Day has been published in over 60 countries, in a number of English language editions and in several translations, including Brazilian Portuguese, Complex/Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish. It has appeared on a number of “best of” book lists, including those in Forbes, Fortune and Inc. How to Have a Good Day was nominated for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year. The second UK & Commonwealth edition of the book was published in 2017 by Pan Macmillan under the title How to Have a Good Day: The Essential Toolkit for a Productive Day at Work and Beyond. The first UK & Commonwealth edition was published in 2016 with the title How to Have a Good Day: Think Bigger, Feel Better and Transform Your Working Life.
