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Meet ​Gianpiero Petriglieri

Authority on Value-Based Leadership and Experiential Learning Who Helps Managers Craft Workplaces That Foster Sustainable Performance, Vital Culture and Well Being; Award-Winning Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD; Named Among the Top 50 Management Thinkers in the World in 2023, Thinkers50; Past Chair Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership, World Economic Forum. 

​Gianpiero Petriglieri is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD.

​Gianpiero Petriglieri is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and an expert on leadership and learning in the workplace.

His award-winning research and teaching focus on what it means, and what it takes, to become a leader. He is particularly interested in the meaning and practice of leadership in the age of “nomadic professionalism,” an age in which people have deep  bonds to work but loose affiliations to organisations, and authenticity and mobility have replaced loyalty and advancement as hallmarks of virtue and success.

The intent of all of Gianpiero’s 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, purposeful as well as portable. This work has earned him a spot among the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world.

Building on his research, Gianpiero has refined a unique approach to developing the art of leading. This approach aims to help people and groups clarify their leadership intent, claim it, commit to it, and forge relationships that sustain it. Gianpiero collaborates with multinationals in a variety of industries to bring this approach to life in bespoke leadership development initiatives, usually tied to a broader effort to transform the organisation. Besides numerous INSEAD accolades, these initiatives have received industry-wide awards for excellence and innovation in executive development.

An insightful and engaging speaker, Gianpiero presents widely at management conferences and corporate gatherings on the value of humanising leadership at work and beyond. At INSEAD, he directs the Management Acceleration Programme, the school’s flagship executive programme for emerging leaders, and chairs the initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence.

Gianpiero Petriglieri Suggested Speaking Topics

How can leaders be more trustworthy and foster meaning and commitment in the workplace? Why do some organizations keep people’s loyalty after they are gone, while others struggle to attract mobile talent? How do you nurture a common culture while honouring the voices of a diverse workforce? These are the challenges that Gianpiero’s insights and advice will help you tackle.

He speaks regularly at professional and management conferences, as well as at private corporate events. An energetic, thoughtful, and engaging speaker, Gianpiero builds interaction into every talk, regardless of duration and audience size. He combines cutting edge research with attentive pre-work to deliver deep insights and practical advice most relevant to the challenges and aspirations of each audience.

Recent keynotes have focused on the topics of:
  • Competence is not enough: Leading and learning in the age of nomadic professionalism
  • Humanizing leadership in the digital age
  • What makes (you) a leader?
  • Leading in – and out of – a climate of mistrust
  • Developing trustworthy leaders: the role of HR
  • Attracting and developing leadership talent
  • How to make work more meaningful and leaders more responsible
  • Authenticity in midair
  • Self awareness is a contact sport

SAMPLE TALKS

Empowering Leaders: Transformation Starts with You
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.

Humanizing Leadership: How to Lead with Care
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.

Bring Your Organization to Life with Value-Based Leadership
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.

Competence is not enough: Leading and learning in the age of nomadic professionalism
We live in times of great turbulence in business and society at large. We blame bad or absent leadership for our afflictions, and invoke new or better leadership as our only hope. How should we select, develop, and exercise leadership in a world that longs for leaders and mistrusts them at the same time? To answer that question, we must rethink the meaning and practice of leading—and learning—for the contemporary workplace. And we must realise that our obsession with leaders’ competence and effectiveness is insufficient, if not detrimental, to foster trustworthy leadership and meaningful work in our companies and communities.

In this interactive masterclass, you will learn about the differences between the ages of corporate citizenship and nomadic professionalism; the sources of, and potential solutions to, the erosion of meaning and trust in the workplace; the history of successful, but no longer adequate, leadership images and development practices, and; the images and practices that foster the development of trustworthy leadership.

What makes (you) a leader?

This keynote will invite you to explore two related questions, a broader social  and a deeper, more personal one. The first one concerns the nature of leadership—what it is, and how one gets it and loses it. The question of who gets to lead—and who doesn’t—is never settled easily when people keep moving around. Despite copious investment in leadership development, organizations claim to suffer from a shortage of leaders. And those who lead often struggle to connect with potential followers, facing resistance and mistrust. We shall reach below superficial models and tales to address the questions—what makes a leader in our times, what does it mean to lead well, and what does it take for you, in your company, today? You will come out from this interactive session with a deeper understanding of leadership, of your own leadership, and of what you can do to make it most impactful and trustworthy.

Learning for a living
In an era of workforce mobility and relentless change, there are still leaders organisations that evoke deep commitment from their employees, sometimes even after they have moved elsewhere. What do those leaders and organisations do differently? In a nutshell, they make, and keep, the promise of learning. They help people develop in ways that make them better at their current jobs and more prepared for their future ones. In return, they get a more motivated and innovative workforce. Keeping the promise of learning, however, is not just a matter of setting up a few courses and workshops. It requires putting learning at the centre of everyone’s daily work, and challenging our current obsessions with performance and alignment. Drawing on research and expertise on leadership and learning, this interactive session elaborates on why learning is the new currency of loyalty in a mobile global economy and how if affects careers and corporations. It will then offers concrete steps that organisations can take to provide the ongoing development that will attract and retain top talent, and increase their capability for ongoing transformations.