Adam Grant To Headline Trinity’s 2026 Flora Cameron Lecture

What can we learn from what we don’t know?

Trinity University will welcome Adam Grant for the 2026 Flora Cameron Lecture on Politics and Public Affairs to discuss this question. Grant will present his lecture “Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know” on Wednesday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Laurie Auditorium.

Many visions, strategies, and best practices were created in a world that no longer exists. The faster our environment changes, the more critical it becomes to rethink our assumptions. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant finds that the very skills that make us good at thinking and learning can make us worse at rethinking and unlearning. Building on his No. 1 New York Times bestselling book, Think Again (called “brilliant” by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman), Grant examines how we can update our own opinions, open other people’s minds, and build a learning organization in which people know what they don’t know and are eager to improve on the status quo. His eye-opening evidence and entertaining delivery will leave you determined to never again say “that’s the way we’ve always done it.”

Tickets are required for the lecture, which is free and open to the public. Tickets are open to the public beginning January 19. 

Grant examines the science of motivation, generosity, rethinking, and human potential. A celebrated professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Grant has been the School’s top-rated faculty member for seven consecutive years. He has been recognized as the world’s No. 2 most influential management thinker and as one of Fortune’s “40 Under 40.”

Grant hosts the TED podcasts Re: Thinking and WorkLife, which have been downloaded over 90 million times. His TED Talks on languishing, original thinkers, and givers and takers have accumulated more than 35 million views. His speaking and consulting clients include Google, the NBA, Bridgewater, and the Gates Foundation. He writes on work and psychology for the New York Times, has served on the Defense Innovation Board at the Pentagon, and has been honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

The Flora Cameron Lecture on Politics and Public Affairs is made possible by an endowment gift from the Flora Cameron Foundation and Mrs. Flora C. Crichton. This lecture brings world leaders, heads of state, and politicians to Trinity to discuss their careers, historic events, and the modern political climate.

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