Originals (Grant)

Author Bio
• Birth—August 13, 1981
• Where—West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA
• Education—B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Currently—lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Adam M. Grant is an author and a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is considered both the youngest-tenured and the most highly-rated professor at the Wharton School. He is a former junior Olympic springboard diver and a professional magician.

Academic career
Grant is a researcher on success, work motivation, and generosity. He received his B.A. from Harvard University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan, completing it in less than three years. He worked as an adjunct professor at Michigan, then as an assistance professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. At the age of 29 he was became a tenured professor at Wharton.

Books
His first book, Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success (2013), was a New York Times bestseller, translated into twenty-seven languages, and named one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, Apple, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal—as well as one of Oprah's riveting reads, Fortune's must-read business books, Harvard Business Review's ideas that shaped management, and the Washington Post's books every leader should read.

His second book, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (2016) has also been a bestseller and was published to solid reviews.

Other
Grant has presented for leaders at organizations such as Google, the NFL, Merck, Pixar, Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, The United Nations, The World Economic Forum, and the US Army, the US Navy, and the US Air Force. He writes regularly about work and psychology as a LinkedIn Influencer.

Grant's research has been featured in bestselling books, including Quiet by Susan Cain, Drive and To Sell Is Human by Daniel Pink, and The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor, as well as hundreds of media outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, USA Today, Financial Times, Oprah Magazine, and Freakonomics blog.

His call-center study has been credited with changing perspectives on workplace motivation. In 2011, Fortune Magazine named him one of the Top 40 Business Professors Under 40. BusinessWeek then named Grant one of their favorite professors in 2012, and Susan Cain cited Grant's research on introverts as one of the 23 biggest ideas of the year. (FromWikipedia. Retrieved 2/21/2016.)