This conversation between Adam Grant (The Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management at the Wharton School) and Rainn Wilson (actor, producer, and author of “Soul Boom”) took place on Wednesday October 4, 2023 as part of our Authors@Wharton Speaker Series. Launched by Prof. Grant in 2012 and hosted by the McNulty Leadership Program, the series seeks to enrich intellectual engagement and encourage dialogue between students, faculty, staff, and alumni outside of the classroom.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rainn Wilson is a three-time Emmy nominated actor best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office. Besides his many other roles on stage and screen, he is the co-founder of the media company SoulPancake and host of Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss on Peacock. Rainn is the author of The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy, as well as the coauthor of SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions, a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Oregon and California with his family and a lot of animals.

ABOUT THE BOOK
The trauma that our struggling species has experienced in recent years —because of both the pandemic and societal tensions that threaten to overwhelm us — is not going away anytime soon. Existing political and economic systems are not enough to bring the change that the world needs. In "Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution," Rainn Wilson explores the possibility and hope for a spiritual revolution, a “Soul Boom,” to find a healing transformation on both a personal and global level.

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