The Insightful Leader Live
A series of live, virtual events providing an hour of critical leadership and business insights from a Kellogg professor.
Archived Webinar
Thursday, February 26, 2026
The Insightful Leader Live: Can Business Negotiation Strategies Work with Friends and Family?
Negotiation skills are essential for your career, whether in asking for a raise or brokering a deal. But they’re not just useful in the workplace. Effective negotiation strategies can also be applied outside of the office for the many negotiations that happen in your daily life and with the people you care about. Join Leigh Thompson, J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations, as we discuss real-world negotiation situations and the principles that can help you reach satisfying results in almost any situation.

Leigh Thompson is the J. Jay Gerber Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. Thompson’s research focuses on negotiation, creativity, virtual communication, and teamwork.
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Insight Unpacked Season 3: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?
We look at the business of climate change, asking what happens when corporate leaders, investors, policymakers, and technologists try to make changes—and why they keep hitting a wall.