Adam Galinsky
Academy of Management Scholar Adam Galinsky is the vice dean for diversity, equity and inclusion and Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School.
Galinsky has published more than 300 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology. His research and teaching focus on leadership, negotiations, diversity, decision-making, and ethics.
Academy of Management Scholar Adam Galinsky is the vice dean for diversity, equity and inclusion and Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School.
Galinsky has published more than 300 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology. His research and teaching focus on leadership, negotiations, diversity, decision-making, and ethics.
Galinsky coauthored the best-selling book Friend & Foe (Penguin Random House, 2015). The book offers a new perspective on conflict and cooperation and has received positive reviews from The New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Economist. His latest book is INSPIRE:
The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others (HarperCollins, 2025). His Ted talk, How to Speak Up for Yourself, has logged more than 7.4 million views.
Poets and Quants selected Galinsky as one of the World’s 50 Best B-School Professors (2012). In 2022, Columbia University honored him with its prestigious Mentoring Award. Galinsky has served as a damages expert in numerous defamation trials involving reputational damage, including ominion Voting systems v. Fox News and Bacon v. Nygard. His expert reports and testimony have generated more than $1 billion in verdicts and settlements for clients.
He is the executive and associate producer of many award-winning documentaries, including two, Horns and Halos (2003) and Battle for Brooklyn (2011), which were short-listed (among the final 15 contenders) for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards.
Galinsky has consulted with and conducted executive workshops for hundreds of clients across the globe, including Fortune 100 firms, non-profits, and local and national governments.
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AOM Journals:
- Social Hierarchy: The Self‐Reinforcing Nature of Power and Status
- Enclothed Harmony or Enclothed Dissonance? The Effect of Attire on the Authenticity, Power, and Engagement of Remote Workers
- Learning Down to Train Up: Mentors Are More Effective When They Value Insights from Below
- Fashion with a Foreign Flair: Professional Experiences Abroad Facilitate the Creative Innovations of Organizations
- Whatever It Takes to Win: Rivalry Increases Unethical Behavior
- Multicultural Experiences: A Systematic Review and New Theoretical Framework
- On Good Scholarship, Goal Setting, and Scholars Gone Wild
- Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Overprescribing Goal Setting
- MOSAIC: A Model of Stereotyping Through Associated and Intersectional Categories
- First Encounters of the Cold Kind: Psychological Perspectives on Language-Based Inferiority in English-Medium Instruction and Student-Professor Interaction Dynamics
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