About the Author

HEIDI GRANT HALVORSON, PhD, is Associate Director of Columbia Business School’s Motivation Science Center and author of the international bestsellers Nine Things Successful People Do Differently, Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals, and Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence (with E. Tory Higgens).

She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, 99U, The Atlantic, and Psychology Today.

Heidi is also Senior Consultant at the NeuroLeadership Institute, where she works with organizations to develop strategies to break unconscious bias in decision making and to foster an organizational growth mind-set. She earned her PhD from Columbia University, working with Carol Dweck (author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success).

Heidi and her family live in Pelham, NY.

Visit her website: heidigranthalvorson.com.