Adam Markel

Today, constant and never-ending innovation is the key to creating sustainable success. And what is innovation? Simply put, innovation is the reinvention of something in a progressive, forward-moving direction. Therefore, our ability to reinvent – or pivot – is critical to lasting and meaningful change and success. No one knows more about pivoting, reinvention, and personal and business transformation than Adam Markel.

Adam Markel is a #1 Wall Street Journal best-selling author, attorney, renowned international speaker, entrepreneur, transformational trainer and program designer, and a business leader who inspires, empowers and guides people to achieve massive and lasting personal and professional growth. Adam was most recently CEO of North America’s largest human potential development company and now leads international program development for Success Global Media, the global market leader in education and success event management.

Since 2008, Adam has trained and led programs for more than 100,000 people around the globe, including Australia, Asia, Europe, Canada, and the United States, in the areas of business and entrepreneurship, finances, health, spirituality, and relationships. Some of the topics covered in Adam’s programs include: the Art and Science of a Successful Pivot, High Impact Presenting & Speaking, Creating Heartspace in the Workplace, Unstoppable Team Development, Creating Heart-Centered Company Culture, Creating Codes of Honor in Business and Life, Mastering the Mind, Winning the Inner Game of Money, Negotiation Mastery, The 7 Rituals of Highly Fulfilled People, The Art of the Enrollment Conversation (a training on authentic selling), Change Management and the Case for Pivotability, Overcoming Fear of Change, Disruptive Thinking and the 10x Factor, The 7 Pillars of Ultimate Relationships.

Adam’s powerful and practical talks offer a unique bridge between self-development and business mastery, crafted to inspire, empower, and guide people to achieve a greater impact through a higher level of awareness, authenticity, and action. He’s been a keynote speaker for groups and conferences including: Harvard University, Infusionsoft, California Chiropractors Association, American Gemologists Association, National Achievers Congress, and Get Motivated. He’s shared the stage with the likes of Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, and Robert Kiyosaki and was honored to become a member of the prestigious Transformational Leadership Council.

Adam’s extensive experience on global stages translates into a powerful experience for any audience. He is known as one of the most charismatic speakers you’ll ever see. His talks are interactive, engaging, high energy, and inspirational. As important, he delivers substance to an audience: skills, tools, strategies, and practices they can use outside the event setting to achieve sustainable results. Adam employs “accelerated” learning techniques to ensure that the substance of what is being taught is learned faster and participants retain more of what they learn.

As the WSJ and USA Today Best-Selling Author of PIVOT: The Art & Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life, Adam is a recognized expert in the integration of business and personal development. He’s been interviewed by many outlets, including: Fox News, Entrepreneur, INC., American Express, Forbes, Newsday, The New York Post, The Observer, and The Wall Street Journal.

Prior to his work with New Peaks and Success Global Media, Adam founded a multi-million dollar law firm specializing in finance, commercial and employment litigation. Over the course of his 20-year practice, Adam represented over 1,000 matters with hundreds of clients including Citibank, Wachovia and HSBC. Adam holds a BS in English and began his career as a public school teacher. Adam has tremendous and diverse experience in business, leadership, mentoring, and facilitation of experiential programs for large and small groups–and knows what it takes to thrive as an entrepreneur, business owner, and corporate leader.

Adam has reinvented what it means to be a heart-centered and authentic leader. He’s admired for his refreshing and inspiring impact on entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and leaders
Worldwide.

For more on Adam, visit AdamMarkel.com.

The Conscious Pivot: Creating Greater Impact Through Greater Vision

Why is it that 88% of Fortune 500 companies existing in 1955 were gone by 2015? Because these businesses couldn’t effectively adapt to change. Today, constant innovation is the key to sustainable success. Innovation, simply put, is the reinvention of something in a progressive, forward-moving direction. Therefore, our ability to reinvent – or pivot – is critical to lasting and meaningful change and success. Pivoting well requires agility, resilience, and the ability to manage change consciously. And, Pivot Innovation is about managing a process, not a plan for a better result.

What does it take to get a better result? It requires a broader vision; a more holistic approach to innovation and performance management. With greater “vision”comes greater “impact” in the world. Adapting to change and continuously innovating requires pivot “alchemy” – taking what is in front of utilizing it to create a greater result. Adam shares this and other top strategies and tools for successfully pivoting and producing massive positive transformation over time in your business.

Adam’s experiential teaching brings to life the concepts presented in his latest book, the best-selling PIVOT: The Art & Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life, including:

• 3 Keys to the Conscious Pivot
• The Windshield: 6 Steps to Creating Clarity (aka “Vision”)
• 5 Principles of Momentum: How to Create and Sustain it!
• How Failing Faster Leads to Succeeding Faster
• The Necessity of Being “Offense-Minded”
• Using Disruptive Thinking to Create 10X versus 2X Results
• Creating and Utilizing a Team “Code of Honor”
• The Power of Rituals
• Applying these strategies to creating an Unstoppable Team

The Leadership Quotient

Leadership has been defined in many ways over the years. For the most part, it is associated with a person that holds a position of authority – or someone with the ability to influence others irrespective of their hierarchical title. However, businesses that are the most successful are those that recognize that successful leadership is, first and foremost, rooted in personal responsibility. Great teams are made up of great leaders.

However, Adam contends that as a society, we all too often look for leadership and problem- solving in other individuals, governments, and/or politicians. By doing so, we are abandoning self-accountability, and thereby, abdicating leadership and perpetuating a culture of mediocrity with an actual lack of leadership.

A company, team, or organization with a powerful “leadership quotient” is one in which all members are leaders of themselves first. They are self-directed and self-motivated because they are actively taking responsibility and accountability for themselves. Leadership also involves being a good follower.

How does one achieve this holy grail of management? It requires a focus on the principles of self-accountability and a mindset of ownership. Adam shares strategies and tools to create a culture of effective leadership and an exponentially stronger team, such as:

• Personal Leadership Awareness and Impact
• Assessing your team ownership quotient (phases) – and where need to focus (hierarchy of leadership)
• The 3 keys to enrollment: creating buy-in and commitment vs. consensus
• Cultivating a culture of personal leadership through personal accountability
• Creating Codes of Honor in Business
• Structuring for empowered leadership: Balancing leadership, turf, and accountability
• How to creating a high-performing leadership context

The Art of the PIVOT

Have you ever wished you could make a significant change in your life or career, but been uncertain how to begin, or perhaps simply found the process too difficult to sustain?

It happens to everyone, but Adam Markel – author of Pivot: The Art and Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life – has a few proven methods for success. You’ll learn from Adam about the power of creating conscious change in your life through small changes.

A recognized expert on personal and professional reinvention, Adam reveals his top strategies and tools for creating a new path towards happiness, fulfillment, and whatever personal or professional goal you’ve set your sights on, including finding your big “why” for living, and shares inspirational stories of people who have made small changes in their lives to produce massive transformation over time.

Adam’s experiential teaching brings to life the concepts presented in his latest book, the best-selling PIVOT: The Art & Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life, including:

• The PIVOT Process vs. The Plan
• 3 Principles of a Successful Pivot
• Pivoting by Default vs. Pivoting by Design
• 5 Principles of Momentum: How to Create and Sustain it!
• Debunking the Myths of Change
• The Recipe for Resilience
• The Power of Rituals