adam grant

• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
  Grant makes the case that in a fast-changing world, the capacity to rethink and unlearn matters more than raw intelligence. He shows leaders how to build cultures of "confident humility" — arguing like they're right while listening like they're wrong.
• Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Success
  Drawing on his landmark research, Grant reveals how givers, takers, and matchers fare in organizations — and why, counterintuitively, the most generous people can become the most successful when generosity is paired with boundaries.
• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
  Grant explores how individuals champion new ideas and how leaders can fight groupthink — debunking myths about risk, timing, and creativity to show how organizations can surface and back original thinking.
• Motivation, Meaning, and Building Better Cultures
  Grant translates decades of organizational psychology into practical guidance on how leaders create motivation, meaning, and resilience — helping teams do their best work and recover from setbacks.

speaker Bio: 

Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and Wharton's top-rated professor for seven straight years — a leading expert on how we find motivation and meaning, rethink our assumptions, and live more generous and creative lives. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of six books, including Think Again, Give and Take, Originals, and Option B (with Sheryl Sandberg), which have sold millions of copies and been translated into 45 languages. Recognized as one of the world's most influential management thinkers and a member of Fortune's 40 Under 40, he was tenured at Wharton while still in his twenties.

Grant's TED talks have been viewed more than 35 million times, and his podcasts Re:Thinking and WorkLife have been downloaded over 100 million times. He earned his PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan in under three years and his BA from Harvard, and — in an earlier life — performed as a professional magician and competed as a Junior Olympic springboard diver. His speaking and advisory clients include Google, the NBA, Bridgewater, and the Gates Foundation, and he has served on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board.

Summary: Core Conviction

Grant's signature move is to take an intuition everyone holds and show, with rigorous evidence, that it's backwards. We assume takers get ahead — but his research shows the most successful people are often givers. We treat confidence as the goal — but he argues the real skill is the humility to think again, to treat our beliefs as hypotheses rather than identities. Across his work runs a single throughline: the people and organizations that thrive are the ones willing to question their own assumptions, stay open to being wrong, and design cultures where generosity and rethinking are rewarded rather than punished. What makes him exceptional on stage is the combination of academic rigor and genuine delight — he turns peer-reviewed science into ideas an audience can use on Monday morning.

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