Adam Markel

In today’s business environment, change happens quickly. The challenge is that most company cultures reward conservative thinking and may even penalize those who attempt to implement innovative, but unproven ideas. The result is often a creeping mediocrity which threatens an organization’s long term profits and even its very survival. In this engaging and practical presentation, Adam shows his audience how to create a culture that stimulates innovation from the inside out through proper accountability, effective feedback, authenticity and transparency, and safe spaces for creative thought and community.

The traditional model of sales is to “always be closing”, but the fact is that high pressure tactics no longer work in today’s sophisticated marketplace. Rather than concentrate on simply closing deals, organizations should emphasize meaningful interactions that effectively increase sales through strong word-of-mouth referrals and repeat business. In this interactive and engaging talk, Adam demonstrates how to deliver authentic and powerful enrollment conversations that create new customers and help retain existing ones.

Stress in a major factor in organizational failures. It affects everything from decision-making capability, to employee turnover and the bottomline. And the pace of disruption, competition and expectations from customers and stakeholders continues to escalate. With this ever present level of stress, it’s vital that leaders develop the ability to not only perform under stress, but to thrive in the face of it. In fact, a Harvard Business Review study comparing high performance athletes to high performance executives found that a key characteristic of high achievers was their able to recover more quickly from stress. In this engaging and experiential keynote talk, Adam will share the critical factors necessary in building high performance capacity and resilience.