Adam Galinsky
Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Dean's Office
Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics
Management Division
B.A. Harvard University; M.A. and Ph.D., Princeton University
Joined CBS in 2012
Office:
397
Kravis
E-mail:
[email protected]
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Adam Galinsky is the Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics and at the Columbia Business School.
Professor Galinsky has published more than 200 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.
Professor Galinsky co-authored the best-selling book, Friend & Foe (Penguin Random House, 2015). The book offers a radically new perspective on conflict and cooperation and has received uniformly positive reviews from the New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist. His Ted talk, How to Speak Up for Yourself, is one of the most popular of all time with over 7.2 million views.
His research has received numerous national and international awards from the scientific community. In 2016, he received Career Trajectory Award given to one researcher each year for “uniquely creative and influential scholarly productivity at or near the peak of one's scientific career.” Poets and Quants selected Professor Galinsky as one of the World’s 50 Best B-School Professors (2012). In 2022, Columbia University honored him its Mentoring Award for demonstrating “an exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring through their work with tenure-track and mid-career faculty in developing their careers.” He has received teaching awards at the Kellogg School of Management and Princeton University.
Professor 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.
Professor Galinsky was the sole expert witness in a 2006 defamation trial in which the plaintiff that he represented was awarded $37 million in damages. He has served as a legal expert in multiple defamation and worker rights lawsuits.
He is the Executive and Associate Producers on many award-winning documentaries, including two, Horns and Halos (2003) and Battle for Brooklyn (2011), which were short-listed (final 15) for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards.
Teaching
Spring 2021
Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
(MBA)
Summer 2021
Spring 2020
Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
(MBA)
Summer 2020
Fall 2020
Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
(MBA)
Spring 2019
Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
(MBA)
Executive Ethics
(MBA)
Executive Ethics
(EMBA)
Summer 2019
Fall 2019
Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
(MBA)
Spring 2018
Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
(MBA)
NYC Immersion Seminar: Leadership
(MBA)
Summer 2018
Fall 2018
In The Media
Channel Your Main Character Energy with the Rom-Com Core Fashion Trend
Widen Your Idea Lens to Generate Worthwhile Ideas
Spotify's CEO Sent a Memo Announcing Layoffs. It Also Contained 'a Powerful Example of Toxic Positivity.’
Is That Co-Worker Really ‘Off to a New Adventure’?
What Fed Interest-Rate Hikes Mean for Your Mortgage, Loans and Savings in 2023
Press Releases
Awards And Honors
Given to the most highly cited Annals paper published in the last 10 years, 2018. Magee & Galinsky, Social hierarchy: The Self-Reinforcing Nature of Power and Status.
Given to one researcher each year for a uniquely creative and influential scholarly productivity at or near the peak of one's scientific career.
Society of Personality and Social Psychology.Given annually to one mid-career scholar whose work has added substantially to the body of knowledge in social psychology 2016.
Personality and Social Psychology (Cao, Galinsky, Maddux), Does travel broaden the mind? Breadth of foreign experiences increases generalized trust, 2015.
Co-author of Friend and Foe (Crown, 2015) which argues that the foundation of all human interaction lies in cooperation and competition. The key is to balance the tension between the two.
Poets and Quants, 2012
2012, Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University and the Society for Business Ethics
(Godart, Maddux, Shipolov, & Galinsky), Academy of Management Meetings, Conflict Management Division, Boston, August 2012
Worlds 50 Best B-School Professors, Poets and Quants,2012.
2009. Leung, K., Y, Maddux, W. W., Galinsky, A. D., & Chiu, C. Y. (2008). Multicultural experience enhances creativity: The when and how.
Kellogg School of Management, 2007-2008
(Maddux, Mullen, & Galinsky), Academy of Management Meetings, Conflict Management Division, Philadelphia, August 2007.
Kellogg School of Management, 2005-2006
(Diekmann, Tenbrunsel, & Galinsky), Academy of Management Meetings, Conflict Management Division, Denver, August 2002.
(Kray, Galinsky, & Thompson), International Association for Conflict Management Meetings, Paris, France, June 2001.
2000-2003, Academy of Management, Conflict Management Division. Kray, L. J., Thompson, L., & Galinsky, A. D. (2001). Battle of the sexes: Gender stereotype confirmation and reactance in negotiations.
(over the two-year period of 1999 and 2000), International Association for Conflict Management, Awarded in 2001.
Finalist (1 of 3), Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 1999.
(Seiden, Galinsky, Kim, & Medvec), International Association for Conflict Management Meeting, San Sebastian, Spain, June 1999.
1997-1998
1997 (Inaugural recipient)
1996-1998
1994-1997
Princeton University, 1993-1994
Harvard University, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91