Thought Leadership: Talks

What Happens When You Are the Science You Study?
TEDxColumbiaUniversity, September 2023

The Anxiety That Comes From Being Treated Like An Outsider
TED’s “How to Deal with Difficult Feelings” Series, June 2021

Out of the Lab with Nilanjana Dasgupta
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, March 2021


Leadership Speaker Series: Professor Valerie Purdie-Greenaway in Conversation with Lisa Carnoy

Columbia Business School (Zoom), September 2020

The Science of Stereotypes and Unconscious Bias

The Tory Burch Foundation’s Embrace Ambition Summit, April 2018

How to Counter Bias and Stereotypes 

The Tory Burch Foundation’s Embrace Ambition Summit, April 2018


Friendships Are Key to Workplace Resilience and Performance

INSEAD, April 2018

Why Being Different at Work Is Risky Business: Diversity, Stereotyping, and Success

Big Think, December 2017

Stereotypes Threaten Your Brain's Well-Being: Memory, Anxiety, Motivation

Big Think, November 2017


Keynote Address: Strategies for Student and Faculty Mentors

Idaho Diversity Network Mentoring Conference, February 2017

A Conversation with Valerie Purdie-Vaughns

2016 Gender & Work Symposium, Harvard Business School, May 2016

Inverted Influence: Blacks, Whites, and Difficult Conversations about Race

2016 Gender & Work Symposium, Harvard Business School, May 2016


University Lecture

Columbia University, October 2015

Valerie Purdie-Vaughns on Unintentional Bias

Big Think, June 2014

Managing Schools to Improve Teacher Performance

Columbia Business School’s 2013 Social Enterprise Leadership Forum, August 2013