Gianpiero Petriglieri

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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