Adam Grant
Organizational Psychologist, The Wharton School
Malcolm Gladwell
Staff Writer at The New Yorker & Co-founder of Pushkin Industries
Innovation · Social Dynamics · Decision-Making
Speaking Fee
Fee on request
Based In
United States
Signature Topic
Innovation & Social Dynamics
Format
Keynote
About Malcolm
Malcolm Gladwell was born in Fareham, England in 1963 and has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. Two articles he published there that year, "The Tipping Point" and "The Coolhunt", became the seed of the book that made his name.
The Tipping Point (2000) has sold more than two million copies in the United States. Blink (2005) followed on rapid cognition, and Outliers (2008) held #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for eleven weeks with its argument that success is far more circumstantial than the people who achieve it tend to believe. What the Dog Saw (2009), David and Goliath (2013), Talking to Strangers (2019), The Bomber Mafia (2021), and Revenge of the Tipping Point (2024) followed.
He created the podcast Revisionist History in 2016, which reopens a settled story each episode and asks whether the received version holds, and co-founded the podcast company Pushkin Industries in 2018. TIME named him one of its 100 most influential people in 2005, and he was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2011.
Keynote Topics
What Really Drives Social Epidemics
Outliers: The Hidden Circumstances Behind Success
Talking to Strangers: Why We Misread People
Rethinking the Story Everyone Agrees On
Best For
- Executive leadership summits
- Innovation and strategy conferences
- Financial and professional services events
- University and think-tank programs
- Annual conferences seeking a headline thinker
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What really drives social epidemics, Outliers and the hidden circumstances behind success, Talking to Strangers and why we misread people, and rethinking the story everyone agrees on. The talks are narrative rather than prescriptive: audiences leave with a changed frame rather than a checklist.
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