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Adam Grant

Biography

Adam Grant

Adam Grant is a psychologist and the New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS and GIVE AND TAKE. His new book, OPTION B with Facebook COO and LEAN IN author Sheryl Sandberg, is now available.
 
As Wharton’s top-rated professor for five straight years, Adam is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers and received distinguished scholarly achievement awards from the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation.
 
Adam received his B.A. from Harvard University with Phi Beta Kappa honors and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He serves as a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times on work and psychology. His keynote speaking and consulting clients include Facebook and Google, the NBA, Teach For America, and the U.S. Army and Navy.
 
Adam is a former Junior Olympic springboard diver. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, their two daughters and their son.

Adam Grant

Books by Adam Grant

by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant - Memoir, Nonfiction, Self-Help

After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build. OPTION B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity.