# Winning at Work: Why it Pays to be a Status Seeker

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**Date:** March 14, 2026 · 10:30 PM  
**Location:** Hilton Austin Downtown / Salon B  
**Format:** Presentation  
**Track:** Workplace track  
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## Speakers

- **Alison Fragale** — Professor, Organizational Psychologist, And Author Of Likeable Badass: How Women Get The Success They Deserve

Status - one of the biggest determinants of our quality of life and career success - is poorly understood and rarely discussed. Professor Alison Fragale, organizational psychologist and bestselling author of Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve, sheds light on the science of status and its relationship to power in the workplace: what it is, why it matters, and how we leverage it for individual and collective success.

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