Transforming Business Success

Adam’s biography

With a career spanning an impressive range of industries including media and entertainment, consulting and education, Adam Kingl has spent decades working in innovation, strategy, wellbeing, culture and leadership.

Adam is the author of Next Generation Leadership (HarperCollins, 2020), Sparking Success (Kogan Page, 2023), shortlisted for Business Book of the Year in the Smart Thinking category, and Executive Eats: The cookbook for a better working life (Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2026).

Adam is an adjunct faculty member at the UCL School of Management and Ashrdge-Hult International Business School, and is an instructor and programme director at Imperial College, Moller Institute – Churchill College – University of Cambridge and the Hanken-Stockholm School of Economics. Previously, Adam was the Regional Managing Director for Duke University Corporate Education, leading the organisation’s business in Europe, and advising clients on issues of adaptability, performance, creativity, and purpose. Adam was also the Executive Director of Thought Leadership and Learning Solutions at London Business School for a decade. He has served as an associate of Saatchi & Saatchi and the Management Lab research institute.

Adam is passionate about the future of work and the multi-generational workforce, and has authored a book on this topic, Next Generation Leadership. His second book, Sparking Success explores how companies in any industry can enhance their innovative, adaptable and inspirational capacity with lessons from prominent leaders in the creative arts. Adam’s third book, Executive Eats, examines how nutrition and wellness can improve a busy professional’s work life and performance.

Adam’s keynote presentations are an illuminating conversation that not only inspire new habits and innovations but also unlock issues within organisational culture. He speaks with warmth and compassion on paradigms of work and leadership, encouraging leaders to have different and better conversations, creating a simple and approachable path to transforming business success.

He contributes as a writer and expert interviewee to: The Financial Times, Sunday Times, Forbes, Fortune, The Guardian and Fast Company, among many others.

Adam holds degrees from London Business School, UCLA, and Yale. He was raised in Silicon Valley, California and now lives in London.