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Gianpiero Petriglieri

Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD Leadership and Learning Expert | Recognized by Thinkers50
About

Gianpiero Petriglieri is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and an expert on leadership and learning in the workplace. He directs the Management Acceleration Programme , the school’s flagship Executive Education programme for emerging leaders, and is the Academic Director of the INSEAD Initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence.

Gianpiero’s award-winning research and teaching focus on what it means, and what it takes, to become a leader. The intent of all his work is to humanise leadership, that is, to account for the complexities and contradictions within and between people and organisations, and to help leaders be grounded as well as flexible, sustainable as well as effective, soulful as well as insightful, purposeful as well as portable. He is particularly interested in the development of responsible leadership in the age of “nomadic professionalism,” in which people have deep bonds to work but loose affiliations to institutions, and authenticity and mobility have replaced loyalty and advancement as hallmarks of virtue and success.

Gianpiero’s research has appeared in leading academic journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Relations, Organization Studies, and Organization Theory. He also writes essays regularly for the Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review . His work has been featured in a range of media including the BBC, Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Le Figaro, El Pais, and he is listed among the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50.

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Why Should You Listen
to Him?

What You’ll Learn

How to lead humans, not hierarchies. Why culture beats control. Why the best leaders stay learners.

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Why You’ll Love Him

He makes leadership feel human again - no jargon, no ego, just truth.

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What’s Unusual

Gianpiero turns leadership into a love language: rigorous, honest, deeply human.

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A Keynote by Gianpiero Petriglieri

Cultures That Learn: Bringing Humanity Back into Organizations

Exploring how leaders can build learning cultures that honor identity, connection and humanity, where reflection and growth are as valued as performance.

Gianpiero Petriglieri in a formal photo
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A Global Voice in Leadership

Internationally recognized and award-winning.

Recognized among the Thinkers50 global ranking of leading management thinkers, Gianpiero contributes regularly to global forums and publications on leadership, culture, and the future of work. He was recently honored with the Dominique Héau Award for inspiring educational excellence at INSEAD.

“Leaders must build workplaces not with rhetoric, but with actions. Leadership doesn’t exist, leaders do. What matters is not the leadership models that managers claim to follow, but the care they demonstrate while leading. In a time of societal turbulence, we expect a lot from business leaders but trust them little because we think that a leader is just someone who gets their way. Until we change that image of leadership, we won’t be able to practice a more humane, trustworthy, and ultimately more effective way of leading.”

Gianpiero Petriglieri Professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD
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