Positive Links Speaker Series
#14328359
Monday, November 19, 2018
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Robertson Auditorium - R1100
Positive Links Speaker Series
Authoring a Good Life in America: Narrative Identity and Redemptive Life Stories
Dan P. McAdams
Monday, November 19, 2018
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234
Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.
Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.
About the talk:
In this talk, McAdams will describe recent psychological research on narrative identity, with an emphasis on stories of personal redemption (triumphing over adversity and suffering) and their strong connections to mental health, psychological well-being, and positive societal engagement.
In various forms such as narratives of upward mobility, atonement, recovery, and personal liberation, the redemptive life stories told by American men and women today, especially in their midlife years, reprise important cultural ideals that have traditionally been associated with living a good life in America.
About McAdams:
Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Author of nearly 300 scientific articles and chapters, numerous edited volumes, and seven books, McAdams works in the areas of personality and life-span developmental psychology. His theoretical and empirical writings focus on concepts of self and identity in contemporary American society and on themes of power, intimacy, redemption, and generativity across the adult life course.
McAdams is the author most recently of The Art and Science of Personality Development and The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By. He also wrote a psychological biography entitled George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological Portrait. In 2016, The Atlantic commissioned him to write an extended psychological essay on the life and mind of Donald J. Trump, which appeared as the cover article for the June 2016 issue of that magazine.
Host:
Julia Lee, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations
Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ’87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2018-19 Positive Links Speaker Series.
Register here:
http://myumi.ch/aXyqR
| Sponsor: | Center for Positive Organizations |
| Contact: | Jacob Feinberg |
| Audience: | Ross Community, All Current Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, PhD, Executive Education, Public, Media, Full-time MBA: First Year, Full-time MBA: Second Year, Tauber MBA: First Year, Tauber MBA: Second Year, Weekend MBA: First Year, Evening MBA, MAcc, MSCM, BBA Sophomore, BBA Junior, BBA Senior, BBA Preferred Admits, Minor in Business: Senior, Executive MBA, Minor in Business: Junior, Master of Management, Weekend MBA: Second Year, Minor in Business: Sophmore, Tauber Engineer: First Year, Tauber Engineer: Second Year, BBA Freshmen |
| Career Interest: | None specified |
| Web Tags: | Business Communication, Business Networks, Center for Positive Organizations, Entrepreneurship, Event, Global Business, Leadership, Management and Organizations, Marketing, Positive Business, Ross Thought in Action, Social Impact, Strategy |
