Rethinking Leadership, Innovation & Change

Speaker Themes

Adam brings unparalleled insights into the evolving landscape of leadership, combining academic rigour with real-world application to help human-centric leaders navigate a turbulent world. 

  • Proven Results

  • Engaging Delivery Style

  • Immediate Impact

  • Academic Excellence

  • Research-Backed

  • Tailored Presentations

Next Generation Leadership

Master the art of leading across generations. Adam's pioneering research reveals how to connect with, engage and retain talent from Baby Boomers to Gen Z, creating aligned teams that leverage diverse perspectives for breakthrough results.

Strategic
Innovation

Business model innovation is one of the most disruptive and sustainable sources of competitive advantage that a company can undertake. We apply a simple framework for the questions to ask about our strategy and how to challenge the assumptions implicit in our answers.

Leading
Change

Discover how to align the organisation in a world where adaptability is the norm rather than episodic change management. Adam shows leaders how to create meaning and engagement that resonates with modern workers, driving engagement and performance to new heights.

Innovation
& Creativity

Unlock your organisation's creative capacity by learning leadership habits from highly successful leaders from the arts that can be applied to any industry or function. Adam's unique approach utilises highly practical creative methodologies to foster innovation, adaptability and breakthrough thinking.

Nutrition
& Wellness

Look after ourselves with better understanding of the effects of our lifestyles.  Nutrition,  recipes and food tips for peak performance, emotional resilience, sustained energy and concentration. 

Selected
Industry Experience

  • Next Generation Leadership for the pharma and healthcare sectors.

    Empowering pharma and healthcare leaders to navigate rapid innovation, manage diverse talent and build resilient organisations.

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  • "Interactive and engaging session with strong relevance to current challenges and practices."

    — Tremco Illbruck

  • "Thanks for the wonderful session. It was well received and an eye opener!"

    — CGI, India

  • "Let me first say that our group is a tough one and are very critical of speakers from the outside. HOWEVER, our group loved Adam’s talk. They felt it was relevant, to the point, and everyone could relate to what was covered. I received compliments on Adam all day."

    Baker Tilly

  • "I am getting excellent feedback from your presentation, you were fabulous!! That was an absolutely brilliant opening session! Extremely engaging and sets the tone for the summit!"

    — IQVIA

  • "Adam had excellent delivery and was very engaging. His talk was useful, interesting and thought-provoking. The Q&A session was valuable too. His insights on generational leadership have fundamentally changed how we approach talent management."

    Executive, Fortune 500 Company

  • "I found the session very interesting, and I am applying your model to think outside the box, so very well done!"

    PCMA Conference, Frankfurt

  • "Your presentation last year is probably the most engaging and entertaining one I've seen in a workplace."

    DB Cargo

  • "Very clever and highly entertaining!"

    — Future Talent Conference, London

  • "Adam’s role as a facilitator and the MC of our company-wide conference has been one of the highlights. He kept the event vibrant and consistent, also adding interesting new perspectives on change and how organisations should react, adapt and remain successful."

    — EXA Infrastructure

  • "Adam delivered a tour de force presentation to City Lit’s annual staff conference this year. Addressing over 400 staff, Adam captivated the theatre with an exceptional mixture of insight and analysis delivered in an engaging and fun way."

    Mark Malcomson CBE, Chief Executive, City Lit

  • "Adam had highly intellectual content which we enjoyed and a positive energy. He was a great choice of speaker for our event."

    — CEO, EMEA, Eisai

  • "Many thanks for your excellent session today. Really engaging, and I've already heard some really good feedback. Seriously, a great session. Thank you."

    — Royal Caribbean Cruises

Leadership
Books

Adam brings unparalleled insights into the evolving landscape of leadership, creativity, innovation, adaptability, wellness and the future of work. He combines research rigour with real-world application to help human-centric leaders navigate a turbulent world. 

Executive
Eats

From sustained energy to improved focus and mood, each chapter in this extraordinary cookbook pairs the latest nutritional research with practical culinary applications, offering readers scientifically backed recipes designed to address the challenges they face in their day-to-day lives.

Sparking
Success

Discover the spark of innovation that will transform your leadership. Almost 80% of CEOs identify innovation and creativity as a top-three priority, yet 94% of employees report that their companies are poor in those areas. Shortlisted for the Business Book of the Year Awards, Smart Thinking Category

Next Gen
Leadership

Next Generation Leadership: How to Ensure Young Talent Will Thrive with Your Organization. Employers who refuse to adapt to the expectations of younger generations are losing out on top talent, as they leave for positions at companies with more modern practices.

Meet Adam

Adam is a globally recognised expert in leadership, innovation and wellness, all contributing to improving performance.  He brings together academic excellence with practical business acumen. His unique perspective combines insights from prestigious academic institutions with real-world consulting experience across diverse industries.

Academic & Professional Excellence

  • Adjunct Faculty of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University College London School of Management

  • Executive Director of Learning and Thought Leadership at London Business School

  • Lecturer at Imperial College Business School

  • Associate Faculty at the Moller Institute, Churchill College, University of Cambridge

  • Faculty at Hult International Business School

  • Associate with Saatchi & Saatchi