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Manu Kapur is the Inagural Speaker of the 2025 Dean’s Speaker Series | February 18 and 19, 2025

Prof. Kapur is honored to be the Inaugural Speaker of the 2025 Dean's Speaker Series at the McGill Faculty of Education, McGill University! Find out more about the events on Productive Failure and Rethinking How We Learn.

Chat on #1 Negotiation Podcast | November 29

Embracing failure to enhance negotiation? Prof. Kapur had a fantastic chat with Kwame Christian, Esq., M.A., on «Negotiate Anything». Listen to the podcast Embracing failure to enhance your negotiation tactics. 

Podcast interview on «The Leadership Habit» | November 15, 2024

Failure isn’t the end—it’s a beginning. That’s the core message from the latest episode of «The Leadership Habit» podcast with Jenn DeWall. In this Episode, Prof. Kapur shares how intentionally designing for failure can enhance leadership…

Article in «Harvard Business Review» | November 6, 2024

Productive Failure in the workplace: Are you a manager or a team leader who wants to drive employee learning and growth? See Prof. Kapur's latest article in the «Harvard Business Review» on how Productive Failure might help you with that! Read…

Discussion at the Berlin Science Week | November 2, 2024

ETH Zurich hosts two events at this years' Berlin Science Week. Prof. Kapur will be talking all things Productive Failure, Embodied Learning, and the Future of Learning along with Dr. Chris Luebkeman, ETH Zurich, and Livia Leu, Ambassador of…

Podcast interview on «Blanchard Leader Chat» | November 1st, 2024

What is the difference between the learning zone and the performance zone? And how do you enter the learning zone? Hear Prof. Kapur explain on the «Blanchard Leader Chat« podcast how carefully curated failure can become a signal for deeper…