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About Gianpiero Petriglieri
Gianpiero Petriglieri is an authority on how value-based leadership fosters engaging workplaces in which people need not trade off well-being for high performance. Such workplaces, he contends, are the best cure for the current epidemic of disengagement, loneliness, and mental distress at work. Building them requires leaders who truly care.
Gianpiero's Keynote Topics
What does it mean to bring an organization to life? According to INSEAD professor of organizational behavior Gianpiero Petriglieri, value-based leadership is the key. “Business is not a machine, but an organism that must be continuously nurtured to be healthy and grow,” he says, and in this presentation, he teaches how value-based leadership, as well as personal investment by those leaders, transforms organizations. By employing a mindset of personal responsibility and urging leaders to pay attention and be willing to listen, Petriglieri shows how leaders are already in charge of their most significant leadership tool: themselves. He’ll illustrate how performance isn’t just about metrics and analytics, but by putting people at the center of their strategy, “performance” also becomes a cultural exercise, as if through the eyes of an artist or actor. This session will enable leaders to see that to bring an organization to life, they must come alive.
Despite executives’ best efforts to create visions of transformation, many strategic initiatives fail to move from intention to reality. Why is this often the case and what can be done to make sure positive change happens? To be skillful cultural conductors, says leadership expert and INSEAD professor of organizational behavior Gianpiero Petriglieri, leaders need to be visionaries who will embody a new vision, bring a new culture to life, and align people, as well as connectors who will build bonds of clarity and trust, freeing people to thrive in the new culture. In this interactive presentation, he shares his three-point blueprint for achieving transformational leadership. Following this session, leaders will be empowered with the knowledge of what they can do to make sure healthy change happens, ultimately bringing positive transformation initiatives from conception to reality.
Leadership is neither a position nor a possession. It is a relationship that makes others feel committed but not captive. So, how do leaders employ authenticity for good to earn the trust and commitment of individuals within their organization? In this interactive session, Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD professor of organizational behavior and an expert on humanizing the workplace, shares important principles about caring leadership and how managers can support, encourage and remind employees of the capacities they have and the value they bring. Following this session, leaders will be equipped with the tools to connect with individuals in their organization and cultivate cultures that see the office not just as a physical place, but also as a positive shared experience that will keep employees happy and productive by making them feel both committed and free.
Articles by Gianpiero Petriglieri
How Leadership Anxiety Derails Transformation
September 2026INSEAD KnowledgeHow to Lead Like No One Has Led Before
May 2025Harvard Business ReviewThree Ways to Lead Learning
January 2025LinkedInGianpiero Petriglieri Wins the Dominique Héau Award for Inspiring Educational Excellence
May 2024MIT Sloan Management ReviewHow to Make Better Friends at Work
February 2024Harvard Business ReviewDriving Organizational Change — Without Abandoning Tradition
April 2023INSEAD KnowledgeLeading Change in Turbulence: Case of Discovery Inc.
January 2023European Group for Organizational StudiesTheorizing Gets Personal: Management Academia in the Mirror of Independent Work
2023Gianpiero PetriglieriHumanizing Leadership: Principles, Practices, And People - Annotated Remarks from the 2022 Academy of Management Annual Meeting
August 2022The Tavistock InstituteThe Work is Alive! Systems Psychodynamics and the Pursuit of Pluralism Without Polarization in Human Relations
2022Academy of ManagementStranger Leaders: A Theory of Marginal Leaders' Conception of Learning in Organizations
2021Harvard Business ReviewMake Space for Grief After a Year of Loss
December 2020Gianpiero in the Media
Beyond the heroic leader
The Beautiful Problem With Gianpiero Petriglieri
The 2025 Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts
How Leaders Can Encourage Learning
Are You the Cause of Your Team’s Change Fatigue?
INSEAD's Gianpiero Petriglieri - Leadership is an Art
Leadership: The Quintessential Human Art
Put People Before Purpose and Humanize Leadership With Gianpiero Petriglieri
The Need To Humanise Leadership & Work
Leadership and Social Defenses
Showing the Love As a Science Leader: The Emotional Side Of Empowering and Inspiring Others
Elon Musk’s Memo Didn’t Just Demand a Return To Offices. It Promoted Overwork
How Gianpiero Works with Organizations
Each engagement is built around your goals and audience.
01 · WORKSHOP“Leadership Doesn’t Exist, Leaders Do.”
INSEAD professor Gianpiero Petriglieri’s customized workshops offer leaders and their teams a unique opportunity to discuss and apply his methodologies related to value-based leadership and leading with care. To empower and inspire workers at every level of an organization, attendees bring their challenges and goals and work toward solutions in a collaborative setting. Petriglieri employs modules that allow for question-and-answer periods and extended discussions focused on how to humanize leadership to build trust and encourage collaboration. Participants will walk away from this workshop understanding how to think like a genuine leader who sees the business as a living organism that requires nurturing for growth, as opposed to an analyst who sees the business as only a machine.
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