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Adam Grant
Organizational Psychologist, The Wharton School
Organizational Psychology · Rethinking · Hidden Potential
Speaking Fee
$75,000 – $100,000
Based In
United States
Signature Topic
Rethinking & Organizational Psychology
Format
Keynote
About Adam
Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been the top-rated professor for a run of consecutive years. His research examines motivation, generosity, and what actually makes people and organizations improve.
He is the author of Give and Take (2013), Originals (2016), Option B (2017, with Sheryl Sandberg), Think Again (2021), and Hidden Potential (2023), several of them #1 New York Times bestsellers.
He hosts the TED podcasts WorkLife and Re:Thinking, and has advised organizations including Google, the NBA, and the United States Air Force on how they hire, motivate, and reconsider their own assumptions.
Grant is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School, where he has been the top-rated professor for several years running, and his research on giving, motivation and rethinking is published in peer-reviewed journals as well as in his books. Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential each sit on that research base, and Option B was written with Sheryl Sandberg.
The practical consequence for an event is that the material holds up under a skeptical audience, because the claims come with studies attached rather than anecdotes alone. He is most valuable where the brief is to change how a group thinks about a decision, hiring, or its own capacity to learn, and least valuable where the room simply needs lifting.
Keynote Topics
Think Again: The Power of Rethinking
Hidden Potential: Unlocking Overlooked Talent
Givers, Takers, and Building a Generous Culture
Originals: Championing New Ideas
Best For
- Executive and senior-leadership offsites
- Talent, HR, and people-operations conferences
- Innovation and strategy summits
- Company all-hands and learning weeks
- Higher-education and research events
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What is Adam Grant's speaking fee?
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What topics does Adam Grant speak on?
Think Again and the power of rethinking, Hidden Potential and unlocking overlooked talent, givers and takers and building a generous culture, and Originals on championing new ideas. The material is organizational psychology rather than motivation, and it suits audiences that want evidence.
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Adam Grant
Organizational Psychologist, The Wharton School
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