Speaking up is hard to do, even when you know you should. Learn how to assert yourself, navigate tricky social situations and expand your personal power with sage guidance from social psychologist Adam Galinsky.

He is currently the chair of the management division at Columbia Business School. With Maurice Schweitzer, he co-authored the critically acclaimed and best-selling book, Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both (Crown Business 2015), which distills his two decades of research on leadership, negotiations, diversity, decision-making and ethics. The New York Times says the book performed “a significant public service” and the Financial Times declared that Friend & Foe “fulfills its promise of handing the reader tools to be a better friend and a more formidable foe.”

Adam has received numerous national and international awards for his teaching and research. He is only the second psychologist to ever to receive the two most important mid-career Awards in Social Psychology. In 2015, he was named one of the top 50 Thinkers on Talent by Thinkers50. In recognition of the quality of his teaching and research, he was selected as one of the World’s 50 Best B-School Professors by Poets & Quants (2012).

He has consulted with and conducted executive workshops for clients across the globe, including Fortune 100 firms, non-profits and local and national governments. He has served as a legal expert in multiple defamation lawsuits, including a trial where he was the sole expert witness for a plaintiff awarded $37 million in damages.

Outside of his professional life, Adam is the associate producer on four award-winning documentaries, including Horns and Halos and Battle for Brooklyn, which were both short-listed for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards.

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