Gianpiero Petriglieri

Author's details

Name: Gianpiero Petriglieri
Date registered: May 2, 2012
URL: http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/profiles/gpetriglieri/

Biography

Gianpiero Petriglieri is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. His interests bridge the domains of leadership, identity, adult development and experiential learning. He is the director of the Management Acceleration Programme, INSEAD’s flagship programme for emerging leaders. Gianpiero’s research explores how and where people engaged in mobile careers develop and sustain the personal foundations, supportive communities and systemic perspective that allow them to exercise leadership mindfully, effectively and responsibly. His work on the personal foundations of leadership development received the 2011 GMAC Award for the mostsignificant contribution to graduate management education. For over a decade, Gianpiero has contributed to refining a unique approach to experiential leadership development. He designs and directs customized leadership development programs for multinationals in a variety of industries. He also consults and speaks widely on the topic of how to develop and exercise mindful, effective and responsible leadership in fast-changing, uncertain and diverse workplaces. Prior to dedicating himself exclusively to executive education, Gianpiero taught the "Organizational Behavior I" core course in the INSEAD MBA for five years, receiving the students' Outstanding Teacher Award, and the Dean's Commendation for Teaching Excellence twice. He has held visiting professor appointments at Harvard Business School, and at Copenhagen Business School, where he received teaching awards in the MBA and Executive MBA. Prior to joining INSEAD, he contributed regularly to executive education programs and to the MBA at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Gianpiero received a Medical Doctorate and a specialization in Psychiatry from the University of Catania Medical School,Italy, and a diploma in Advanced Organizational Consultation from the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London. He has practiced as a psychotherapist and often serves on the staff of group relations conferences in Europe and the United States. He is past President of the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA) and a member of the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. You can also find him on Twitter: @gpetriglieri

Latest posts

  1. Getting Stuck Can Help You Grow — February 7, 2013
  2. Obama’s Inauguration and Why We Still Need Rituals — January 21, 2013
  3. Finding the Job of Your Life — December 18, 2012
  4. Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil? — November 15, 2012
  5. Moving Around Without Losing Your Roots — October 5, 2012

Author's posts listings

Getting Stuck Can Help You Grow

After an accident, there is often a second of calm when you realize that you are seriously hurt. Memory captures the scene in fine detail, as if you’re hovering outside your skin, before pain and confusion pull you right back in.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2013/02/getting-stuck-can-help-you-grow/

Obama’s Inauguration and Why We Still Need Rituals

I have a picture somewhere of my son and I playing in the living room the day of Barack Obama’s first inauguration as 44th President of the United States. My son was five months old, the ceremony on the TV behind us.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2013/01/obamas-inauguration-and-why-we-still-need-rituals/

Finding the Job of Your Life

Let’s face it. We all think about it. At times we think of little else — even if only rarely and in certain settings do we feel free to admit it. The conversation often begins furtively, the question murmured as if slightly shameful or out of place.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/12/finding-the-job-of-your-life/

Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil?

The last decade has been a one of soul-searching for business schools worldwide. Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down?… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/11/are-business-schools-clueless-or-evil/

Moving Around Without Losing Your Roots

Big questions always strike unexpectedly, when our guard is down. I was watching my toddlers splash in the pool last summer when a fellow dad plunged me into revisiting the meaning of home in a globalized world.
He didn’t mean to.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/10/moving-around-without-losing-your-roots/

The Art of Career Development

Do you want a great career? Build it like an artist. Gianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, explains how.

This video originally appeared on HBR.org… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/09/the-art-of-career-development/

The Perils Of Being Groomed For Leadership

A few weeks before the end of 2010, Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, surprised the financial world by naming a virtual unknown, Todd Combs, as his likely successor. As always happens with Buffett’s pronouncements, experts and commentators went haywire trying to decipher the reticent mogul’s rationale, poring over Combs’ background and the performance of the hedge fund he started and managed for the last five years.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/09/the-perils-of-being-groomed-for-leadership/

Who can teach leadership?

Mel’s hand went up precipitously and unexpectedly, like thunder on a clear day. I had barely begun introducing the leadership course I would be teaching over the coming weeks. “I have a question, Professor.” I gave him the floor.
“What makes you think you can teach us to lead?”
I looked around.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/09/who-can-teach-leadership/

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