Gianpiero Petriglieri
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Academic Director, Initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence
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Additional Information
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Research Areas
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- Leadership Development
- Identity Dynamics
- Systems Psychodynamics
- Personal and Professional Learning & Development
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Teaching Areas
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- Leadership
- Team Dynamics
- Personal and Professional Development and Change
- Coaching and Group Facilitation Skills
Biography
Gianpiero Petriglieri is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and an expert on leadership and learning in the workplace. He directs the Management Acceleration Programme , the school’s flagship Executive Education programme for emerging leaders, and is the Academic Director of the INSEAD Initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence.
Gianpiero's award-winning research and teaching focus on what it means, and what it takes, to become a leader. The intent of all his 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, soulful as well as insightful, purposeful as well as portable. He is particularly interested in the development of responsible leadership in the age of "nomadic professionalism," in which people have deep bonds to work but loose affiliations to institutions, and authenticity and mobility have replaced loyalty and advancement as hallmarks of virtue and success.
Gianpiero's research has appeared in leading academic journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Relations, Organization Studies, and Organization Theory. He also writes essays regularly for the Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review . His work has been featured in a range of media including the BBC, Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Le Figaro, El Pais, and he is listed among the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 .
Building on this research, Gianpiero has refined a unique approach to leadership development that helps people and groups clarify their leadership intent, claim it, commit to it, and forge relationships that sustain it. He 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. He also speaks widely on at management conferences and corporate gatherings on the value of humanising leadership at work and beyond.
In the INSEAD MBA, Gianpiero teaches the core course "Ethics: Lead for Good," for which he has received the Aspen Institute "Ideas Worth Teaching" award. Prior to that, he taught the "Leading People and Groups" core course for five years. He has received the students' Outstanding Teacher Award for both courses and earned numerous Dean's Commendations for Teaching Excellence in MBA and Executive Education, as well as for mentoring and collegiality. His executive programmes have received industry-wide awards for excellence and innovation in executive education. And in 2023, Gianpiero received the Dominique Hèau Award for Inspiring Educational Excellence, a recognition for INSEAD professors whose work has strengthened the school’s institutional fabric and community.
A Medical Doctor and Psychiatrist by training, Gianpiero has worked as an executive coach, practiced as a psychotherapist, and served on the staff of group relations conferences in Europe and the United States. He has held Visiting Professor positions at the Harvard Business School and at the Copenhagen Business School. You can learn more about Gianpiero's work on his webpage or connect with him on LinkedIn .
Gianpiero's award-winning research and teaching focus on what it means, and what it takes, to become a leader. The intent of all his 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, soulful as well as insightful, purposeful as well as portable. He is particularly interested in the development of responsible leadership in the age of "nomadic professionalism," in which people have deep bonds to work but loose affiliations to institutions, and authenticity and mobility have replaced loyalty and advancement as hallmarks of virtue and success.
Gianpiero's research has appeared in leading academic journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Relations, Organization Studies, and Organization Theory. He also writes essays regularly for the Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review . His work has been featured in a range of media including the BBC, Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Le Figaro, El Pais, and he is listed among the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 .
Building on this research, Gianpiero has refined a unique approach to leadership development that helps people and groups clarify their leadership intent, claim it, commit to it, and forge relationships that sustain it. He 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. He also speaks widely on at management conferences and corporate gatherings on the value of humanising leadership at work and beyond.
In the INSEAD MBA, Gianpiero teaches the core course "Ethics: Lead for Good," for which he has received the Aspen Institute "Ideas Worth Teaching" award. Prior to that, he taught the "Leading People and Groups" core course for five years. He has received the students' Outstanding Teacher Award for both courses and earned numerous Dean's Commendations for Teaching Excellence in MBA and Executive Education, as well as for mentoring and collegiality. His executive programmes have received industry-wide awards for excellence and innovation in executive education. And in 2023, Gianpiero received the Dominique Hèau Award for Inspiring Educational Excellence, a recognition for INSEAD professors whose work has strengthened the school’s institutional fabric and community.
A Medical Doctor and Psychiatrist by training, Gianpiero has worked as an executive coach, practiced as a psychotherapist, and served on the staff of group relations conferences in Europe and the United States. He has held Visiting Professor positions at the Harvard Business School and at the Copenhagen Business School. You can learn more about Gianpiero's work on his webpage or connect with him on LinkedIn .
Publications
Case Studies
30 Oct 2023
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G.
16 Jan 2023
By Lockhart J., Petriglieri G.
16 Jan 2023
By Lockhart J., Petriglieri G.
07 Dec 2021
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G.
07 Dec 2021
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G.
26 Jul 2019
By Solal I., Snellman K., Petriglieri G.
23 Apr 2019
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
23 Apr 2019
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
23 Apr 2019
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
23 Apr 2019
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
22 Aug 2018
By Askin N., Lockard J., Petriglieri G.
Google and Project Maven (B): An Eventful Week in June
Award Winning
30 Jul 2018
By Petriglieri G.
28 May 2018
By Stettin J., Petriglieri G.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
12 Mar 2018
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Wood J. D.
25 Sep 2017
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G., Obodaru O.
Tony Hsieh at Zappos: Structure, Culture and Change
Award Winning
26 Aug 2016
By Askin N., Lockard J., Petriglieri G.
27 May 2013
By Petriglieri J., Petriglieri G.
18 Feb 2008
By Maddux W., Petriglieri G.
18 Feb 2008
By Maddux W., Petriglieri G.
18 Feb 2008
By Maddux W., Petriglieri G.
18 Feb 2008
By Maddux W., Petriglieri G.
18 Feb 2008
By Maddux W., Petriglieri G.
18 Feb 2008
By Maddux W., Petriglieri G.
18 Feb 2008
By Maddux W., Petriglieri G.
03 Jan 2006
By Petriglieri G., Petriglieri J.