Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at Wharton, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. He is an expert in how we can find motivation and meaning, and lead more generous and creative lives. He is the No. 1 New York Times best-selling author of four books that have sold over a million copies and been translated into 35 languages: “Give and Take,” “Originals,” “Option B” and “Power Moves.” His books have been recognized as among the year’s best by Amazon, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal, and been praised by J.J. Abrams, Richard Branson, Bill and Melinda Gates, Malcolm Gladwell and Malala Yousafzai.

Grant’s TED talks have been viewed more than 16 million times. He hosts the TED original podcast “WorkLife,” which has spent two weeks as the No. 1 show on the Apple chart, and writes for The New York Times on work and psychology. His speaking and consulting clients include Google, the N.B.A. and the Gates Foundation. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers, Fortune’s 40 under 40 and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and received distinguished scientific achievement awards from the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation. He serves on the Lean In board and the Department of Defense Innovation Board. He received his B.A. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and he is a former magician and junior Olympic springboard diver.