Inspire

The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others

Adam Galinsky · 2025

Columbia Business School's Adam Galinsky distills decades of research into what separates inspiring leaders from infuriating ones, and how to become the former.

Galinsky, a social psychologist at Columbia Business School, has spent decades asking why some leaders light people up while others drain them. His answer is that inspiring leaders reliably do three things: they embody their values, they paint a hopeful vision of the future, and they make people feel genuinely seen. Blending research with stories from business, sports, and his own family, he turns inspiration from a mysterious gift into a set of habits anyone can practice.

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Video · February 2026

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