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Adam Markel's speaking fee falls within range: $20,000 to $25,000
Adam Markel, keynote speaker, workforce futurist and resilience researcher, guides individuals and organizations to tap the power of resilience to master the challenges of constant change. His work redefines resilience and engagement in the workplace and equips organizations to create healthier, happier high-performing work cultures that are truly Change Resilient.
Adam has much to share about resilience, culture and change from his 18 years as a trial attorney building a multi-million dollar enterprise and 20+ years as a CEO in the professional training and development space, as well as researching and consulting with organizations of all sizes and industries. Yet, some of his most enduring lessons came from his years as an ocean first responder – a life and death environment where Adam learned the importance of cultivating high performance capacity and impeccable teamwork.
In his latest bestselling book, Change Proof, Adam shows how those principles of resilience are equally relevant today for any business that wants to move beyond merely managing change to actively embracing it and using times of uncertainty, crisis, and chaos to create opportunities and stimulate individual and team growth.
As one of Huffington Post’s top speakers to see and the #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Pivot, Adam’s messages have inspired tens of thousands worldwide. His keynotes, corporate workshops, and consulting integrate practical business strategies, personal development insights and a unique delivery style to create a high-energy and impactful learning environment.
Adam is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Researcher of WORKWELL, a TEDx speaker and influencer, and host of The Change Proof Podcast, facilitating insightful discussions with business leaders and social innovators and sharing strategies to fully embrace an uncertain world and build Change Proof organizations.
Adam is continuously inspired by his wife of more than 30 years and their 4 amazing children.
Adapt to Win - Unlocking the Power of Strategic Resilience to Lead Change and Fuel High Performance
In a world defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), leaders and organizations must go beyond reactive responses to crises and instead build strategic resilience—a proactive, purpose-driven capability to absorb shocks, adapt intelligently, and emerge stronger. This keynote explores how cultivating strategic resilience and adaptability as core strategic assets enables leaders to navigate disruption, empower teams, and future-proof their organizations. Through a blend of real-world examples, research-backed insights, and actionable frameworks, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how to embed adaptive capacity into the culture, operations, and decision-making processes of their organizations.
Key Learning Objectives Include: - Differentiate Resilience Types: Gain clarity on operational vs. strategic resilience—and why mastering both is critical to long-term organizational success. - Lead with Adaptability: Explore leadership practices that build psychological safety, agility, and team-wide adaptability in the face of constant change. - Embed Resilience into Culture: Learn how to weave resilience into your organization’s culture and strategy to thrive during times of transformation and uncertainty.
This keynote delivers a strategic shift for leaders to embrace resilience not just as a reaction to disruption, but as a proactive driver of long-term success. By integrating strategic resilience into leadership, team dynamics, and daily operations, organizations can unlock greater consistency, adaptability, and impact across every level. With Adam’s powerful insights, attendees will leave inspired, equipped, and ready to lead with confidence—leveraging the strength of their people, the support of their teams, and the adaptability that drives performance across the organization.
Resilience by Design - How to Future-Proof Teams & Thrive Through Uncertainty
In today’s demanding and fast-paced workplace, employees are being asked to do more with less, meet continuously increasing goals, and navigate constant change—all while maintaining peak performance. The cost of this relentless pressure is staggering: burnout alone costs businesses an estimated $62 billion annually in health and safety expenses, not to mention the toll it takes on productivity, morale, and retention. The ability to sustain high performance in this environment isn’t just about skill or effort—it’s about developing “Change Resilience.”
Adam Markel brings a transformative perspective to resilience, drawing on a rich and diverse background that includes 18 years as a trial attorney, 9 years as a CEO, and even 7 years as a lifeguard on Long Island’s beaches. For organizations, resilience is the unsung hero of success, creating a culture where well-being and performance go hand in hand. Without resilience, employees cannot meet the rising expectations placed upon them, let alone thrive within them.
This dynamic presentation is designed for leaders and individual contributors alike, offering actionable strategies to build a resilient culture that prioritizes employee well-being while empowering individuals to excel. Through engaging stories, audience participation, and practical tools, Adam educates audiences about what resilience is …. And what resilience is not. By integrating resilience into the core of organizational strategy and personal practice, individuals and teams can rise to meet the demands of constant change that defines today’s workplace.
Through engaging narratives and practical strategies, Markel elucidates how resilience is not merely about enduring but about thriving—transforming adversity into opportunity and growth.
Key Learning Objectives Include: - Overcome Change Resistance: Break through the fear of change and challenge the status quo, empowering your team to embrace transformation and drive innovation. - Holistic Resilience: Understand how mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being are interconnected and essential for sustainable high performance. - Well-Being as a Performance Driver: Learn the most effective ways to cultivate workforce well-being and unlock creativity, productivity, and long-term employee success. - Energy Management for Peak Performance: Discover strategies to maintain energy and focus, ensuring individuals can meet demands without sacrificing their health or happiness. - Bouncing Forward: Shift the mindset from merely enduring challenges to leveraging them as opportunities for growth, adaptability, and innovation.
This keynote delivers a strategic shift for organizations and individuals to embrace strategic resilience as the foundation for sustainable success. By integrating well-being into the core of their strategy, leaders and contributors alike can create a workplace where people not only meet expectations but exceed them—thriving in every sense of the word. Adam’s insights will leave audiences inspired, equipped, and ready to embrace resilience as the ultimate performance advantage.
The Change-Proof Advantage - Equipping Teams to Embrace Change, Recover Smarter, and Create What’s Next
In a world where change is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, resilience and adaptability have become the cornerstone skills for thriving in the modern workplace. Adam Markel’s keynote on Change Proof resilience offers a transformative framework for equipping individuals and organizations with the tools they need to not only navigate disruption but to lead innovation and achieve extraordinary success. Drawing from his extensive experience as a resilience researcher, bestselling author, and business leader, Adam provides a roadmap for cultivating resilience as a proactive, multifaceted skill set—one that empowers employees to embrace uncertainty, adapt to evolving challenges, and drive meaningful innovation.
Through compelling storytelling and actionable strategies, Adam demonstrates how resilience is not just about enduring adversity but about leveraging it as a catalyst for growth and creativity. His latest bestseller, Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-term Resilience, underscores the importance of developing resilience before it’s needed, emphasizing its holistic nature across mental, emotional, physical, and even spiritual dimensions.
Key Learning Objectives Include: - Empower Innovation: Learn how to foster an environment where creativity and big thinking thrive, even in the face of challenges. - Combat Burnout: Strategies to recognize early signs of burnout and actionable steps to address and prevent it within your team. - Build Resilience: Techniques for developing individual and collective resilience, enabling your team to perform under pressure and adapt to change. - Drive Sustainable Success: Practical tools for sustaining a healthy, productive workplace that consistently achieves and exceeds goals. - Overcome Change Resistance: Break through the fear of change and challenge the status quo, empowering your team to embrace transformation and drive innovation.
This keynote offers a transformative perspective on Change Resilience, emphasizing the critical role of resilience to achieve and sustain success in today’s dynamic world. Through his compelling narrative and evidence-based strategies, Adam inspires a shift towards a more resilient, adaptable, and proactive approach to personal and professional challenges, leaving audiences energized, empowered, and ready to transform disruption into unprecedented success.
Re-Culture: The Got Your Back Blueprint - Building Trust-Driven Teams That Attract, Retain, and Thrive
In today’s fast-paced and high-pressure workplace, organizations face a critical challenge: how to create an environment where employees are there to stay, engaged and thriving. With talent shortages, rising turnover costs, and increasing burnout, the need for a workplace culture that fosters engagement, innovation, and resilience has never been more urgent. The solution? A Got Your Back (GYB) culture—one rooted in trust, collaboration, and mutual support.
In this dynamic session, Adam Markel reveals how cultivating a GYB culture can transform your organization into a magnet for top talent while boosting engagement and retention. By prioritizing employee well-being and fostering a sense of belonging, organizations can create a thriving environment where individuals feel empowered to innovate, adapt, and perform at their best. This isn’t just about keeping the talent you have—it’s about attracting the talent you need to grow and succeed in an ever-changing world.
Key Learning Objectives Include:: - Building Resilience: Equip your team with the tools to adapt to change, overcome challenges, and thrive under pressure. - Attracting Top Talent: Discover how a supportive and collaborative culture becomes a competitive advantage in recruiting the best and brightest. - Boosting Engagement: Learn strategies to enhance employee engagement by fostering trust, open communication, and a shared sense of purpose. - Preventing Burnout: Identify early warning signs of burnout and implement actionable steps to create a healthier, more sustainable workplace. - Driving Retention: Understand how a GYB culture strengthens loyalty, reduces turnover, and creates a workplace where people want to stay and grow.
This session offers a powerful blueprint for creating a workplace that not only survives disruption but thrives because of it. By embracing a Got Your Back culture, your organization can unlock the full potential of its people, driving innovation, resilience, and long-term success.
Turning AI Anxiety into Innovation: Build a Culture of Innovation & Future-Ready Workforce
AI is here to stay. Leaders who recognize its benefits and learn how to catalyze them to future-proof their teams will enhance productivity and retain a competitive advantage, regardless of the changes on the horizon. Embracing this transformative force for greater productivity, collaboration, stress mitigation, and overall employee well-being is critical.
However, AI also presents a multitude of challenges that must be addressed in order to fully realize its benefits. In this dynamic and compelling conversation, Adam guides organizations through the intricate adoption of AI in the workplace, sharing effective strategies to empower teams and leaders alike to foster learning, growth and innovation.
Key Learning Objectives Include:: - Understanding AI’s Role in the Workplace: Gain insights into how AI technologies, like machine learning and data analytics, are reshaping traditional workplace practices and employee interactions. - Enhancing Mental Health and Well-being: Learn about AI-driven solutions that help in monitoring and improving employee mental health, including stress management and emotional well-being programs. - Improving Work-Life Balance with AI: Discover how AI can streamline workflows and reduce workload, leading to a healthier work-life balance and preventing burnout. - Building Adaptive Capacity: Learn strategies to strengthen adaptability, ensuring long-term success in an ever-changing marketplace. - Transforming Adversity into Growth: Discover how resilience enables individuals and organizations to turn uncertainty around technology and other forms of disruption into innovation and sustained performance.
This session is a call to action for leaders and organizations to embrace the dual power of resilience and AI, crafting a future-ready workforce capable of thriving in any environment. Together, we’ll uncover how to navigate the currents of change with strength, adaptability, and purpose.
“It was great working with Adam. The feedback from the participants has been outstanding. One even described it as “life-changing.” His insights and perspectives were very timely for our team – at all levels. Moreover, I loved the roadmap of actionable advice he provided. Thanks again!” – Stephen P., US Bank
“Thank you immensely for your inspiring message at this year’s sales kickoff. Not only was it timely, it was well received by the group. I heard guys saying “I got your back” throughout the rest of the event. I look forward to where our team takes the message.” – John B., President, DuraServ
“Adam couldn’t have been a better choice for our event. His message was very well received, as was evidenced by the standing ovation at the end. He really delivered for us, providing a nice toolkit that we could put into action quickly. The attendees felt very resourced in ways to increase performance. It’s clear that Adam is a mature, experienced and well-rounded speaker whose authenticity and transparency ensured his message really resonated and left everyone feeling that we as a company have their back.” – Jack A., Service Corporation International (SCI)
“The feedback from all corners is OVERWHELMING. Thank you so much for sharing with us yesterday. I JUST came from yet another conversation where someone said you were the best keynote in the 7 years they’ve been attending. I’ve heard a dozen or more people who have started their day with one or more of your recommendations.” – Matt G. Valet Living
“Adam’s message really resonated, so much so that it set the tone for the rest of the week, becoming a theme of every presentation and the hallway chatter. It was exactly what we needed at this moment. People were so excited after the event and even told us that this was the best meeting! The takeaways had real impact and, most importantly, fulfilled an important purpose of the meeting – to get buy-in on the future of our organization. You were a big part of that.” – Samantha O., Medtronic
“Adam JUST spoke to our group and I’ve already had people come up and tell me he is the BEST speaker that we have had of all of our sessions…and we’ve been doing this for over 30 years! He was dynamic and wonderful and we have really appreciated him being here. Thank you, Adam!” -Shelly A., The Imaging Network Group (INg)
“We express our gratitude for such an amazing and inspiring session. We will of course take all of your advice and suggestions to make us more resilient. On top of being an amazing speaker, you and your team are also some of the nicest people that I’ve had the chance to work with. Thank you for that.” – Jean T., Mars Wrigley
“The unthinkable and impossible become logical and attainable when you listen to the inspirational messages Adam delivers. He’s a guy with big dreams for the world and the passionate personality to inspire to share in his dreams and to dream bigger themselves. If you want to transform the lives within your organization through personal development, Adam is a guy who can help make it happen.” – Steve Olenski, Director of CMO Content & Strategy, Oracle
“Hearing Adam Markel speak is a life changing experience. With so many voices in the realm of personal development, Adam’s message stands out. His humor, heart centered caring about his audience, and his offering of real world tools for transition and transformation make him the best speaker I have ever encountered.” – Vivian Nesbitt SAG/AFTRA, Sol Acting Academy & Host of Art of the Song heard nationwide in public radio
“We enjoyed having Adam as the keynote speaker at our District Manager Engagement Conference. Adam’s talk provided a great foundation for the conference, inspiring attendees to engage in a productive learning experience throughout the week. His presentation was insightful, relevant, and reinforced our key messages and goals. The way Adam engaged our District Managers kept them invested, as well as ensured they got meaningful and actionable takeaways.” – Jack in the Box, Leadership Team
“Adam is awesome! The principles [he presents] are easy to understand, implement, and follow! I think everyone like me has wanted to make life changes but may have focused on “where do I start?” This talk has motivated me to get going and embrace change! Thank you Adam Markel. This talk and your book, PIVOT, has changed my life, attitude, and focus. WOW!!!” – Amy S., PIVOT Talk Attendee
“Having Adam Markel speak at Athena’s Signature Series program to talk about Pivoting and Resilience as it applies to personal and career reinvention was perfect for members looking to reframe their thinking. Adam is an effective communicator with a defined delivery style that’s highly engaging. Our members gained a great deal from Adam. I recommend Adam and his book for anyone looking to gain perspective on their life journey.” – Cheryl K Goodman, Exec Director of Athena Founder, SoGloMo LLC
“Adam is an engaging speaker with a very interesting and relevant message. Adam’s presence is that of a polished professional, with an authentic and relatable charisma. Audience members commented that his keynote was visionary.” – Gerhard Gschwandtner, CEO, Selling Power
“Through the art of storytelling Adam delivers a powerful life changing message opening your eyes to the possibilities life can offer. I felt it was like having a conversation with a best friend. Through his journey and trials and tribulations you learn that achieving your dream is possible as long as you don’t give up on the way, and there will be challenges – many speakers fail to mention that part. And Adam gifted us with his “21 day challenge” which I’m excited to do to keep my momentum going. It’s time to Pivot!” – David O., PIVOT Talk Attendee
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Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-term Resilience
Learn how to thrive on uncertainty instead of merely managing it―from the resiliency expert and author of PIVOT
In his #1 bestselling guide to resilience, Pivot, business and personal development expert Adam Markel showed how building resilience can supercharge your life and career. Now, in Change Proof, he shows how you can move beyond managing change to actively embracing it―and actually using times of uncertainty, crisis and chaos to create opportunities and stimulate positive growth.
Broken down into four parts, Change Proof explores the dynamics of change and provides a model of how to create the mindset that embraces it fully. Using case studies, current research and his years of experience as an expert in the integration of business and personal development, Markel uses real-life scenarios to illuminate the lessons in engaging chapters that include:
– The Myth of Balance – The Resilience Bank Account – Recovery vs. Burnout – Even Michael Jordan Paused – Get Out of Your Head – A Little Failure Goes a Long Way – Calm Is Contagious – What Change-Proof Culture Can Do for You
You’ll learn how to choose change before it chooses you, what it takes (and what it means) to become truly change proof, and how to leverage your relationship to change. You’ll also find practical strategies in the change-proof model (pause, ask, choose). With a combination of mindset recalibration and specific, hands-on ways to make it work, Change Proof will help you take the art and science of resilience to the next level―and look forward to future and all the changes it will bring, with full confidence.
Pivot: The Art and Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life
Adam Markel, a top international keynote speaker, bestselling author and CEO, shares his practical and inspirational program for reinvention. A successful transformational teacher and former CEO of one of the world’s largest personal and business development companies, Adam Markel has trained thousands worldwide to rediscover themselves, find new directions, jobs, careers and businesses. Whether you want to change your professional trajectory, find work or build a new business, Adam Markel can help you leap out of your comfort zone and into the destiny you’ve always dreamed of.
What would you do in your life if you knew you could not fail?
That’s the question answered in Pivot, a road map for embracing your true potential without abandoning your responsibilities or risking your future. As a transformational teacher and CEO, who has trained thousands of people worldwide, Adam Markel can help you leap out of your comfort zone and into the destiny you’ve always dreamed of.
Whether you are transitioning your career, have been downsized, or believe that your true potential has yet to be fully tapped, Pivot is a guide to reinvention for anyone at any age. With clear-eyed compassion and frank assessments, Adam shares the secrets that will guide you away from fear and toward a powerful new vision for your life. The uplifting stories; introspective prompts; clear, step-by-step exercises; and energizing calls to action throughout this remarkable book will guide you through the process of personal and career transformation, from creating a vision and clearing space for change to building a supportive environment and establishing daily rituals that will regenerate your soul.
Soul Over Matter: Ancient and Modern Wisdom and Practical Techniques to Create Unlimited Abundance
Combine ancient Eastern and modern Western wisdom, mix in proven techniques from both a CEO and a legendary soul healer, and you get Soul Over Matter. Designed for readers at every level of economic experience, this book gives you a unique and powerful path to financial abundance.
Adam Markel, bestselling author, attorney, and CEO of New Peaks, North America’s largest personal and business development company, shares inspiring life lessons and strategies to create abundance. World-renowned miracle soul healer, Dr. & Master Zhi Gang Sha reveals sacred and practical wisdom, including universal laws that everyone can apply to create abundance in every aspect of life: personal finances, business, relationships, and more.
Destined to be the Think and Grow Rich of the 21st century, Soul Over Matter shares practical wisdom and easy-to-implement, proven techniques. In addition, Master Sha provides two new calligraphies that carry extraordinary power to remove blockages to achieving lasting abundance. With these simple techniques, you’ll learn how to focus on your unique challenges and conquer them.
Soul Over Matter is the first financial advice book to focus on the role of soul in creating abundance. Whereas other books have hinted at the importance of connecting to universal laws to create abundance, Soul Over Matter is the first book to deliver the techniques to do so.
The I Love My Life Challenge: The Art & Science of Reconnecting with Your Life: A Breakthrough Guide to Spark Joy, Innovation, and Growth
In times of dramatic change, burn out, fear, and stress―the idea of coming into each day with energy, let alone positivity, seems impossible. However, Adam Markel has the tools to make it so. What Adam discovered through his work with individuals and teams, is that choosing to love and be grateful for one’s life is critical to staying resilient in business and life.
The I LOVE MY LIFE CHALLENGE is an active challenge against yourself, to make changes for the better and push beyond the day to day struggles. In addition to stories and prompts for promising change, this work includes simple, repeatable 10-second actions that readers can use personally and professionally to center themselves in the face of change.
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