POWER:
Why a Good Argument is Never Enough; Acting With Power is Better

Date and Time: Tuesday, May 22, noon-1:15pm (lunch will be provided)
Location: TBA

Presenter:
   Professor Deborah Gruenfeld,
   Moghadam Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior and
   Co-director of the Executive Program for Women Leaders,
   Stanford Graduate School of Business

You've focused on developing strong academic and presentation skills but do you know that you can increase your effectiveness in working with others (advisor, lab mates, future boss) by your tone, posture, and eye contact? Research shows that judgments about competence are made in less than 100 milliseconds. In this lunchtime session, you'll learn how non-verbal behavior affects your status and develop strategies to maximize your power.

Open to all Stanford graduate students. Sign up here by May 14, 2012

Deborah Gruenfeld is a social psychologist whose research and teaching examine how people are transformed by the organizations and social structures in which they work. The author of numerous articles on the psychology of power, and on group behavior, Professor Gruenfeld has taught popular courses on these and related topics to MBA students and executives at Stanford and at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. She co-directs the Stanford Executive Program for Women, the Stanford Faculty Women's Forum Workshop on Leadership, Management and Influence, and the Women Do Lead program for GSB alumni.

Professor Gruenfeld joined the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Cornell University in 1983, her master's in journalism from New York University in 1985, and her PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois in 1993. Before starting her academic career, she worked as a journalist and public relations consultant.

Read about Professor Gruenfeld's research.