2025 Annual Torrance Lecture: Teresa Amabile
Thursday, October 2 at 4 PM
UGA Chapel
https://coe.uga.edu/events/torrance-lectures/
Please register to attend this free event: https://forms.gle/h6yf42QWNFuYbGQ29
“A Labor of Love – Insights from a Creativity Research Program”
Teresa M. Amabile is an internationally recognized researcher, writer, speaker, and emerita professor at Harvard Business School, most widely known for her pioneering research on creativity, everyday work life, and retirement. Her 45-year program of research on how the work environment can influence creativity and motivation yielded a theory of creativity and innovation; methods for assessing creativity, motivation, and the work environment; and a set of prescriptions for maintaining and stimulating innovation.
Her books include Growing Up Creative, Creativity in Context, The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work, and Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You. Her honors include being inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame (2024), being named within the top 50 scholars in business/management by the journal PLOS Biology (2020), receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the BI Norwegian School of Management in Oslo (2019), winning the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, and receiving the 2017 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association.
The 2025 Torrance Lecture is preceded by Creativity & Motivation: A cross-disciplinary mini-conference.