Angela Duckworth

At a time when burnout threatens workplace culture, Angela teaches leaders 
how to create sustainable passion and perseverance in their teams – rather than short-term intensity that fizzles fast.

Angela’s mesmerizing PSA on grit – and her fascinating approach to researching it – remains one of the highest viewed TED Talks of all time.

Angela Duckworth is the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. A 2013 MacArthur Fellow, Duckworth has advised the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs. Prior to her career in research, she founded a summer school for underserved children that was profiled as a Harvard Kennedy School case study. She has also been a McKinsey management consultant and a math and science teacher in the public schools of New York City, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. 

Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.

Angela completed her undergraduate degree in Advanced Studies Neurobiology at Harvard, graduating magna cum laude. With the support of a Marshall Scholarship, she completed an MSc with Distinction in Neuroscience from Oxford University. She completed her PhD in Psychology as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her TED talk is among the most-viewed of all time. Her first book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, is a #1 New York Times best seller.