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MEDIA AND RESEARCH

My research and thought leadership on power, status, negotiation, and influence has appeared in organizational psychology’s most prominent academic journals as well as top media outlets. You can check it all out here.
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BOOK BUZZ

Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve is available now, and it’s popping up on recommended book lists everywhere:

GENDER GAP IN THE WORKFORCE WITH ALISON FRAGALE

Squawk Box CNBC

How Women Can Gain Status and Advance in the Workplace

with Katie Couric

How to be well-liked at work, according to science

TheStreet

HOW WOMEN CAN MASTER THE ART & SCIENCE OF NEGOTIATION

WGN Midday News

podcast appearances

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THE SECRET TO SUCCESS ISN’T POWER — IT’S STATUS
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Alison Fragale’s strategies for Status Building
The Chase Jarvis Live Podcast
Game-Changing Tactics to Elevate Your Status
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The Hidden Power of Weak Language
Hidden Brain podcast
How To Win People Over
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To Get What You Want, Be Both Assertive and Warm
This Sh!t Works podcast cover image with Julie Brown
How to Combine Power & Status
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How To Build
Your Status
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Crack the Code: Win Big at Work
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How to Get
What You Want
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Becoming a
Likeable Badass
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Getting to
Yes, and
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Be A Likeable
Badass
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Spread love in
Organizations
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How You Master the Science of Status for Success
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Becoming a Likeable Badass with Dr. Alison Fragale
Something You Should Know podcast
Why Status is Critical to Your Success
Radiate with Marya Stark
How to Be a Likeable Badass with Alison Fragale
I'd Rather Be Reading Podcast
How Becoming a Likeable Badass Will Lead Us to the Success We Deserve
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K&L Gates Client Conversations With Craig Budner: Alison Fragale
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Alison fragale’s Hacks to Being Likeable Without Being a Pushover
LinkedIn Presents Negotiate Anything
LinkedIn Presents: Building Trust for Successful Negotiations
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Strategy Skills: The Playbook for Winning the Status Game
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Unlock Your Likeable Badass: Power, Status, and Respect
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How to Elevate Your Status and Command Respect at Work
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How to Network Without Being Inauthentic

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How To Be A Likeable Badass And Why It Matters

ON THE RADIO

AirTalk with Larry Mantle

Tips, tricks and strategies for women to excel in the workplace and beyond

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John Williams and Kelly Leonard discuss Alison Fragale, Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve, and the relationship between humor and status.

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“It’s a form of social proof, which promotes competence. ‘I don’t think this, we think this.’ ‘We’ is always more persuasive than ‘I.’”

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PRINT & ONLINE

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“Seeking power has always been a maddening tightrope walk for women … Over time Ms. Harris has figured out how to navigate these double standards, and her playbook may help other women do it, too.”

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Wall Street Journal

“Maybe we missed the memo on what it takes to win at work … To get that next job or big, high-profile project, you have to be known for more than long hours. You have to change how your colleagues and bosses see you.”

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“If we can pursue status and we’re surrounded by people who respect, admire, and value us, then one, it doesn’t matter how much power we have, and two, getting power becomes a whole lot easier.”

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Katie Couric Media

“Gender is a status characteristic. We generally assign less respect to women, on average, than we do to men. So women have this extra challenge of building status, whereas men simply have to maintain it.”

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“In a negotiation, you are a detective; you are not a magician. A lot of people approach negotiation training as, you’re going to teach me some magic, Alison, and I will get people to do things they have no intention of doing.”

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“Whether you realize it or not, you’re constantly judging other people, and they’re constantly judging you. Here are the main ways we categorize each other — especially women.”

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“Your status affects how much influence you’re granted, how much attention you command, how people treat you — and how easy it is to acquire and use power.”

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Financial Times

“Modify your communication style to the characteristics that are demanded in a particular group or organisation. The subtle communicative behaviours do matter.”

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“…to help colleagues or people junior to be able to build their success, the most effective thing that you can do is to step in and be another promoter, or talk them up.”

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The Boston Globe

“Human beings are social animals, a fact that is central to how we as a species see the world.”

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Authority Magazine

“I love nothing more than bringing psychology into people’s lives to help them work, lead, and live better.”

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Fast Comoany

“When we’re deferential to a boss, we’re communicating, ‘I know you outrank me and I’m okay with that…”

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Financial Times

“The current generation of students, as well as professors of all ages, are increasingly comfortable with digital interaction.”

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Fast Comoany

“Differences in initial reputations, combined with confirmation bias, explain why we can behave just like the guy in the next office and get wildly different results.”

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The Washington Post

“Controlled experiments show that the status of the lawbreaker makes a huge difference in how we evaluate what happened.”

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“Your power is your control over resources — like money, authority, and a seat at the table where decisions are made. Despite decades of attention to closing the gaps, women continue to lag men on all these dimensions.”

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“Fragale delivers a refreshing set of life hacks, practical advice, and “kick-ass” stories to help women cultivate a workplace reputation as both warm and kind—as well as assertive and competent.”

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“Change in the workplace for women is not happening fast enough. By cultivating perceptions of warmth and assertiveness, women can get more power in their hands.”

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Inc. magazine

“Building a business today isn’t just about how you’re perceived. It’s about building influence, credibility, and trust. One of the most powerful ways to do that is by becoming a person whom others want to talk about in glowing terms.”

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“While there isn’t robust science around October-specific habit changes, the theory stems from the ‘fresh start effect.’ We like to start new goals on a day or date that feels like a new beginning or transition.”

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“When you’ve earned someone’s respect, they’re usually happy to support you, especially if it’s as simple as talking up the good work you’ve done in conversations where their opinion is respected.”

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“Fragale’s insight is that status — the esteem others hold us in — is the untapped channel many women can leverage. Unlike power, it’s something we can actively shape through warmth and likability.”

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BLOGS & NEWSLETTERS

Random Acts of Medicine

“Senior women leave at higher rates than junior women, because when you have power and you don’t have status, people mistreat you.”

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thinking in bets

“This is an experience I had many times as a woman playing poker for a living, and it used to aggravate the hell out of me.” – Annie Duke

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Practically deliberate

“You can have power without status. But be warned: this situation often leads to crankiness (see airport security agents and traffic cops).”

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Kat’s STACK OF READS

“So how did the Yankees elevate my status, at a time I was the youngest beat reporter, new to NYC and the only woman? 

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MEDIA INQUIRIES

I love translating academic research into easily digestible, tangible takeaways for non-academic audiences. I make reading science fun. Looking for a contributor for your next media piece? Reach out.

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