About the Author

Heidi Grant, PhD, is Global Director of Research and Development at the NeuroLeadership Institute, and Associate Director of Columbia University’s Motivation Science Center. She is the author of the international bestsellers Nine Things Successful People Do Differently, Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals, No One Understands You and What to Do about It, and Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence (with E. Tory Higgins).

She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, strategy+business, Fast Company, 99U, The Atlantic, and Psychology Today, and has been listed as one of Thinkers50’s top thought leaders in management.

Heidi 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: http://www.heidigrantphd.com/.