How to Empower Drive, Engagement and Growth 

Why Our Fear of Failure Fails Us

We’ve got the balance wrong.

A healthy fear of failure is essential. It reminds us of our accountability and emboldens the threat of consequence.  But excessive emphasis on failure can paralyze productivity and stop us from achieving our best work.

Risk aversion, inner-resistance, self-sabotage, procrastination, anxiety and perfectionism are all signs that we hold an unhealthy fear of failure.

Successful teams and organizations require a healthy relationship with failure. Too much fear – or too little – signals future disaster. Managing your fear of failure effectively allows for individual authenticity and reclaimed confidence.  And we need both for sustained success and performance.

It’s time to reframe our fear of failure.

Learn Key Lessons to Empower Drive, Engagement and Growth:

-How an inaccurate conception of failure cripples engagement, growth and abilit

-How to separate self-worth from past success and failure

-Differentiate between blameworthy failure and praiseworthy failure-

-Reclaim lost confidence: the action-growth connection

-Big dreams and small steps can increase your capacity for achievement

Strong Teams, Shared Leadership 

Strengthen team culture, improve communication and energize staff. 

An incredible power is released when we work effectively together. When teams function optimally, they can be excellent tools to ensure resiliency, manage risk, and maximize achievement.  When the whirlwind takes over, busyness gains priority and stress levels run high. In a fast-paced environment, we often let communication and team dynamics suffer, and the costs are significant.

Strong team culture is essential to sustain success. How can we foster authentic and lasting team culture? Reunite your team under a higher goal. Embolden the professionals on your teams to lead from within. Adam combines inspiring stories with an interactive presentation to share the concept of Shared Leadership with teams across sectors.

Learn Key Lessons to Empower Shared Leadership:

-Why we must have clear roles in our teams

-Why it is important to “debate ideas not people’

-How airing our grievances in the Sahara Desert created a stronger Ocean Rowing Team

-How disagreements can be overcome by focusing on shared objectives

-Communication tips for better teamwork and team leadership

Inches: Creating and Sustaining Peak Performance 

It’s not Sexy and it’s True: Slow and Steady Separates the Best from the Rest.

At the Beijing Olympic Games, my team’s goal was to gain one inch over our competition with every stroke. We won Olympic Gold by just over one second—or 220 inches. That’s one inch for every stroke.

The inches add up.

The same is true in business, entrepreneurship, career and life: quick fixes do not drive excellence.

Too often, we race for quick fix solutions, clinging to claims of easy success: “If only we could fail faster, schedule smarter or work harder”.  We maintain unsuccessful strategies at all costs to evade slowing down, re-strategizing and regaining our focus.

The truth is, it takes focus and consistency to establish effective habits. We achieve peak performance when we prioritize the inches: powerful habits, strategies and tools that drive results.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result.  It’s time to take time. Step back and implement the inches that will create and sustain peak performance.

Learn Key Skills for Sustained Results, including:

-Focus on what you can control

-Embrace a growth mindset: inspire intrinsic persistence

-Reject instant gratification: find happiness in effort, drive and process

-Harness the power of authenticity

-Capitalize on the value of active listening

-Do the work

Fortify Your Safety Culture for Success 

For Professionals who make Safety a priority. *Popular with front line professionals, and organizations with a strong focus on safety.

When disaster strikes, its too late to plan. Jobs, bottom lines, and lives can be at stake. In the Bermuda Triangle 800 miles from land, Adam was trapped inside a flooding cabin when his ocean-rowboat flipped. Exceptional Safety preparation allowed his crew to survive this ultimate disaster without injury, and in many ways, better off.

Top professionals plan for safety. Safety encourages professionals to communicate more effectively and align their priorities under this higher goal. Professionals who care for the health of their teammates engage the power of reciprocity, creating a domino effect where more organizational goals are achieved.

Safety Matters. Embolden your safety management culture. Start Today.

Manage Change and Overcome Obstacles 

A Healthy Dose of Inspiration, Entertainment, and Education.  

Stress, change and perceived obstacles can help us when we use them as intended: to motivate action. Failure in the mid-Atlantic? A crippling back injury months before the Olympic Games? Volatile markets while building a businesses? I’ve been there and will share my first-hand experience on overcoming adversity.

It’s time to hit the refresh button and boost your energy. I believe that we can use my story to empower your team to navigate current and future uncertainty with confidence. My narratives are compelling and supported by relevant research, which enables me to effectively teach key lessons of high performance that apply to shifting work environments. Participants will gain my best practices for managing change, and the tools that are necessary for consistent self-improvement. With the right tools, we can transition from current practices to future desired states. We can act as professionals and adopt an ethic of positive realism to all areas of life.

Learn Key Lessons to Overcome Obstacles and Manage Change:

-Learn the correlation between energy and positivity in the face of change

-Understand the change curve to stop resisting change

-Learn to let go of the past

-Remember that we must focus on what we can control

FREE: Conference Fitness Program with Adam *Offering with a keynote or workshop booking 

Join Adam for a fun and invigorating early morning fitness session at your next conference.  All abilities welcome and encouraged to attend!

At no additional cost, we offer all keynote clients the option of booking Adam to lead a pre-breakfast outdoor fitness session. This option is guaranteed to refresh, energize and kick off the conference day for all.

Most importantly, this session is all inclusive: all age, all body shapes, all fitness levels are welcome. If the only people who show up are the three exercise freaks training for their next seven marathons, Adam will sweep the halls knocking on room doors. He looks forward to meeting the mother of four who hasn’t put on her running shoes in three years, and the manager who knows his beer gut needs to shrink.  Get out of bed and get moving: 6:29 am, rain or shine.

Adam’s outdoor fitness session is inspired by his local November Project. Adam will provide participants with fun, motivation and exercise that will renew energy, increase confidence and be the best start to your conference day.