Speaking & Workshops
Adam speaks and facilitates for conferences, founder communities, leadership teams, and organizations navigating the parts of growth that rarely show up on a strategy deck.
What Makes This Different
That may mean telling a story, naming a pattern the group has been avoiding, shifting into reflection, or turning an idea into a conversation people can actually use. The work is designed to land in the room, not just sound good from the stage.
Who This Is For
Conferences & Summits
Keynotes, panels, and interactive sessions for audiences navigating leadership, growth, culture, and change.
Founder Communities & Accelerators
Talks, workshops, and cohort sessions for founders building companies while also becoming the leaders those companies require.
Executive & Leadership Teams
Focused sessions for teams working through communication strain, trust, decision-making, transition, or group dynamics under pressure.
Formats
Talks for conferences, leadership summits, founder gatherings, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Story-driven, practical, and designed around a clear idea audiences can carry into their work.
Typical length: 20–60 minutes
A 60–90 minute or half-day working session built around a real leadership challenge. More participatory than a talk, with reflection, discussion, and practical application.
Works well for
A series of facilitated sessions for founder cohorts, leadership programs, or communities that want learning to build over time. Can also be structured as an accelerator or portfolio-wide partnership.
Possible focus areas
Deeper sessions for teams or groups that need more than a talk. These may include executive-team work, retreats, place-based sessions, or field-based leadership experiences.
Sample Topics
Leadership
What changes when the person who started the company can no longer hold every decision, relationship, and layer of leadership themselves.
Group Dynamics
Why capable individuals do not automatically become a capable team, and what leaders can do when trust, communication, and coordination start to break down.
Communication
What happens to honesty when the stakes rise, and how teams build the ability to have the conversations they keep postponing.
Culture
Why culture starts long before a company writes down its values, and how early choices become norms that are difficult to unwind later.
Co-Founders
How trust, roles, expectations, and unresolved tension at the top shape the rest of the company.
Identity & Leadership
A workshop exploring how ancestry, identity, place, and responsibility shape the way we lead, belong, and make meaning.
Facilitation
For leadership teams, founder groups, and organizations working through something real, Adam also facilitates sessions designed around the dynamics already present in the room.
These sessions can stand alone or become part of a longer offsite, cohort program, or leadership immersion.
Explore Class IV in the FieldThat may include
20+
Years in leadership development and facilitation
30+
Countries where Adam has guided programs
5x
Founder and operator
Berkeley
Trained executive coach
Adam has also guest lectured and facilitated in university and professional learning settings.
Bring Adam Into the Room
Whether you are planning a keynote, workshop, leadership session, or multi-part program, start with a conversation about the audience, the moment, and what you want to make possible.
