Angela Duckworth
Professor at UPenn, author of GRIT, co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, co-founder of Character Lab
- Role
- Co-founder at Character Lab
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Angela Duckworth
Angela Duckworth is co-founder, chief scientist, and a board member of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. She is also the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change For Good Initiative, and faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics. A 2013 MacArthur Fellow, Angela has advised the White House, the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs. Prior to her career in research, Angela founded a summer school for low-income children that was profiled as a Harvard Kennedy School case study and, in 2018, celebrated its 25th anniversary. 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. 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.Angela\'s TED talk is among the most-viewed of all time. Her book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is a #1 New York Times best seller. She is also co-host, with Stephen Dubner, of the podcast No Stupid Questions.
Experience
Co-founder
Jan 2015 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US
Character Lab is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2013 by one scientist and two educators: Angela Duckworth, author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance and the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania; Dave Levin, co-founder of the KIPP public charter schools; and Dominic Randolph, Head of School at Riverdale Country School.
Education
Harvard University
AB
1988 — 1992
University of Pennsylvania
MA and PhD
2002 — 2006
University of Oxford
Msc
1994 — 1996
Skills
- Accounting
- Secondary Education
- Research
- Academia
- Powerpoint
- New Home Sales
- Interviews
- Educational Technology
- Management
- Team Building
- Budgets
- Smartboard
- New Home Construction
- Finance
- Commercial Real Estate
- Compensation & Benefit
- First Time Home Buyers
- Recruiting
- Teacher Training
- Staff Development
- Teaching
- Real Estate Transactions
- International Business Experience
- K-12
- Curriculum Design
- Editing
- Real Estate Marketing
- Educational Leadership
- Banking
- Elementary Education
- Writing
- English
- Curriculum Development
- Lesson Planning
- Human Resources
- Workers Compensation
- Real Estate
- Special Education
- Residential Homes
- Training
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