Adam Smith is an executive coach, facilitator, and organizational consultant for global corporate, multilateral, federal, nonprofit, and higher education institutions. He is also a team coach, coaching supervisor, writer, and educator. Adam earned an MBA in Organization Development at Johns Hopkins University, is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, has completed advanced studies in Coaching Supervision at Oxford-Brookes University in England, and serves on the Board of Directors and the Research Committee with the Graduate School Alliance for Education in Coaching.

He possesses over 25 years of experience in leadership roles in management consulting, Fortune 500 corporations, and as a Board Director and Board Chair in the nonprofit sector. Adam views leadership coaching as a sacred, dialogic, learning partnership that is highly complex and dynamic, and involves the courageous exploration of affect, attention, cognition, motivation, overt behavior, perception, emotion, and capabilities.

Adam is frequently requested for leadership coaching engagements focusing on leadership presence, influence, leading and developing high performing teams, career advancement, thriving in senior leadership roles, scaling as a strategist leader, executive communications and presentations, leading innovation and change, stakeholder management, thought leadership, building professional brands and portfolios, and leading in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous contexts. Adam’s approaches are grounded in research and evidence-based practice to enable leaders to gain insight, explore, ideate, develop a meta-systemic vision to bring their best to the world, and to transcend themselves and elicit the best from those whose lives they touch.