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.
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
THE SECRET TO SUCCESS ISN’T POWER — IT’S STATUS
Alison Fragale’s strategies for Status Building
Game-Changing Tactics to Elevate Your Status
The Hidden Power of Weak Language
How To Win People Over
How to Combine Power & Status
How To Build
Your Status
Crack the Code: Win Big at Work
How to Get
What You Want
Becoming a
Likeable Badass
Getting to
Yes, and
Be A Likeable
Badass
Spread love in
Organizations
How You Master the Science of Status for Success
Becoming a Likeable Badass with Dr. Alison Fragale
Why Status is Critical to Your Success
How to Be a Likeable Badass with Alison Fragale
How Becoming a Likeable Badass Will Lead Us to the Success We Deserve
K&L Gates Client Conversations With Craig Budner: Alison Fragale
Alison fragale’s Hacks to Being Likeable Without Being a Pushover
LinkedIn Presents: Building Trust for Successful Negotiations
Strategy Skills: The Playbook for Winning the Status Game
Unlock Your Likeable Badass: Power, Status, and Respect
How to Elevate Your Status and Command Respect at Work
ON THE RADIO
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
“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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“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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“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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“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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“Human beings are social animals, a fact that is central to how we as a species see the world.”
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“I love nothing more than bringing psychology into people’s lives to help them work, lead, and live better.”
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“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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“The current generation of students, as well as professors of all ages, are increasingly comfortable with digital interaction.”
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“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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“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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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.