Adam Grant

Bringing in a business consultant can challenge you and your organization to think differently about your business. Whether you are a new leader seeking a renewed vision for your company or a seasoned C-Suite executive exploring new trends in the marketplace, they provide the deep, strategic insights and much-needed perspective to help you make confident and profitable decisions.

Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist and Wharton’s top-rated professor, is a deeply original thinker, a popular TED speaker, and one of the most influential advisors to American business today. He will help you to identify top talent and, in turn, to motivate your employees. An expert at developing teams and aligning them to achieve success, he’ll guide your organization’s executive leadership team and its people to excel at networking, collaborating, managing, and negotiating.

His advisory topics include:
- Improving Corporate Culture
- Leadership
- Leading Organizational Change
- Recruiting Top Talent

Culture is a key component of success, but many leaders struggle in managing the cultures of their teams and organizations.

Based on a decade of research and consulting with Fortune 500 companies – including recent projects at JetBlue, Goldman Sachs, Teach For America, and Warby Parker – Adam Grant argues that the highest-performing organizations are the ones that embrace an ethos of knowledge sharing, helping, and mentoring.

“The greatest untapped source of motivation is a sense of service to others; focusing on the contribution of our work to other people’s lives has the potential to make us more productive than thinking about helping ourselves,” he maintains.

In his New York Times bestselling book, Give and Take, Grant examines the way interpersonal behavior in the workplace can lead to success, depending on whether you’re a “giver” (generous, helpful), a “taker” (a me-first, dog-eat-dog type), or a “matcher” (trades favors evenly, quid pro quo).

“Givers succeed in a way that creates a ripple effect, enhancing the success of people around them,” he writes. “Giver success creates value, instead of just claiming it.”

In this dynamic presentation, Grant outlines the key strategies for building a culture of productive generosity. He urges companies to reward givers and get rid of takers, by making their reputation known to them and challenging them to new behavior. He also shares how leaders and organizations can improve practices around selection and hiring, recognition and rewards, and collaboration and coordination – to boost revenue, efficiency, and satisfaction.

To survive and thrive, organizations need original thinking. Yet most individuals stay silent instead of voicing their best ideas – and many leaders stifle dissent rather than encouraging it. In his #1 New York Times bestselling book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Grant set out to explore how to unleash original thinking.

“Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas, but take action to champion them,” says Grant. “They’re people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world.”

Many of Grant’s observations about how originals behave run counter to years of cultural canon in the business world. For example, he punctures the idea that failure is something to be feared or even avoided. “If you look across fields, the greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they are the ones who try the most,” Grant says.

In this talk, Grant reveals how to evaluate and pitch new ideas, how to create psychological safety, and and how friendly managers end up being the least supportive. He points out that businesses often listen to the person who is the most confident instead of the most competent. Grant also describes how the values that help organizations prosper early on are the same ones that thwart their growth later.

In an engaging and entertaining format, Grant helps audiences understand how to get better at recognizing and championing new ideas, and how to build cultures that welcome diverse perspectives and honest feedback.

Every organization faces hard times – from external disruption and internal errors to customer complaints and employee conflicts. Similarly, everyone in the workforce experiences professional challenges – from failure and rejection to disappointment.

In this intimate conversation, Adam Grant fields questions about how to build resilience in our teams and ourselves.

“Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity,” says Grant. “It’s a skill set that we work on throughout our lives,” he contends.

This conversation draws lessons from his #1 New York Times bestselling book Option B, co-authored with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, after the unexpected death of her husband. The book offers practical steps one can take to reimagine and rebuild their life when their first choice – Option A – is no longer on the table.

Like it or not, many of us are stuck working from a distance. What does the evidence tell us about how to be effective? Building on his chart-topping TED podcast WorkLife, organizational psychologist Adam Grant shares the latest evidence on how we can fight procrastination and maintain productivity, boost collaboration and creativity in virtual teams, and build the resilience in the face of adversity and uncertainty.

The past year has led us to rethink fundamental assumptions—where to work, how to manage remote culture and collaboration, whether to reimagine our strategy and our products or services. Yet too many leaders and employees are reacting to events instead of proactively looking for opportunities to think again. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant has spent the past decade studying this problem at organizations ranging from the NBA to Pixar to NASA, and he finds that the very skills that make us good at thinking and learning can make us worse at rethinking and unlearning. Building on his new book, Think Again—which has been called “a must-read” by Bill and Melinda Gates and “brilliant” by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman—Adam examines how we can update our own opinions, open other people’s minds, and build a learning organization in which people know what they don’t know and are eager to improve on the status quo. His eye-opening evidence and entertaining delivery will leave you determined to never again say “that’s the way we’ve always done it.”