Fernando Machado
Chief Brand Officer, Chipotle | Former CMO, Activision Blizzard & Restaurant Brands Intl | Forbes Top 3 Most Influential CMO | Creator, Dove 'Real Beauty Sketches'
Adam Markel
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Pivot & Change Proof | Resilience Researcher & Co-Founder of WORKWELL | Former Attorney & CEO | Expert on Change & Reinvention
Adam Markel is a #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author and one of the world's leading experts on resilience and reinvention. A former attorney and CEO turned researcher, he draws on data from more than 27,000 people to help leaders turn change into a competitive advantage. Author of Pivot, Change Proof, and Re-Culture and co-founder of the research firm WORKWELL, he gives audiences a science-backed framework for thriving through uncertainty.
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Adam Markel biography
Change management speaker Adam Markel is one of the world’s foremost authorities on resilience, reinvention, and leading through relentless change. A number one Wall Street Journal bestselling author and researcher, he argues that in an age of constant disruption, resilience is not a personality trait some people are lucky enough to have, but a learnable, buildable capacity, one that individuals and organizations can develop before they need it, and turn into a genuine competitive advantage.
Markel’s insight is grounded in an unusually varied career. He spent eighteen years as a trial attorney, building a multimillion-dollar law firm, before reinventing himself as the CEO of one of North America’s largest personal and business development training companies, and then again as an author, keynote speaker, and researcher. That firsthand experience of pivoting, more than once, and at high stakes, is the backbone of his work. Today he is Co-Founder and Chief Researcher of WORKWELL, a research and advisory firm focused on workplace resilience, culture, and sustainable performance.
The Science of Being Change Proof
Markel is the author of the number one Wall Street Journal bestseller Pivot: The Art & Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life, and of Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-Term Resilience, published by McGraw Hill, along with his newest book, Re-Culture. His frameworks are backed by real research, drawing on workplace resilience data from more than 27,000 participants, and are used by leaders at organizations including Citigroup, Home Depot, CVS Health, and Cisco. A TEDx speaker and host of The Change Proof Podcast, he has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Entrepreneur.
As a speaker, Adam Markel is energetic, practical, and refreshingly grounded, delivering not a motivational pep talk but a researched, actionable playbook that audiences can use the very next day. He speaks on building strategic resilience, leading through high-stakes change without triggering resistance, turning disruption into a performance advantage, reinvention and the art of the pivot, and preventing burnout while sustaining high performance. Audiences leave equipped to change their relationship with change, and to bounce forward rather than merely bounce back.
Adam Markel Speaking Videos
DOING THIS for 10 Seconds Can Change Your Life! | Adam Markel | TEDxSouthLakeTahoe
Adam Markel on Resilience - Professional Network Group
Adam Markel Keynote Topics
Drawing on his bestseller and his research with more than 27,000 people, Adam Markel reframes resilience not as a personal trait but as a strategic capability organizations can build, deliberately and before crisis hits. He shows leaders how to move beyond reactive "fire drills" toward a proactive capacity for absorbing shocks, adapting intelligently, and emerging stronger. Audiences leave with a practical, research-backed framework for turning constant change from a threat into a genuine competitive advantage.
Restructures, AI rollouts, and cost programs pile up, and the hidden cost shows up in slower decisions and disengaged teams long before it shows up in attrition. Markel gives leaders a clear playbook for guiding people through rapid transformation: how to align teams, reduce friction, and accelerate adoption of change, without creating burnout, fear, or resistance. Essential insight for any leader navigating disruption at scale.
Based on his number one Wall Street Journal bestseller and his own repeated reinventions, from attorney to CEO to author, Markel shows individuals and organizations how to reinvent themselves before circumstances force their hand. He shares the mindset and the concrete tools to spot when it's time to pivot, to let go of what no longer works, and to move forward with clarity and confidence. An energizing, deeply practical talk for anyone facing change or seeking a new direction.
Constant pressure without recovery quietly erodes judgment, creativity, and wellbeing. Markel unpacks the science of resilience across its mental, emotional, physical, and even spiritual dimensions, and challenges the "always outrun everyone" myth. He shows leaders and teams how to build the habits of regeneration, recovery, and sustainable high performance that let people thrive under pressure rather than break down. A vital talk for organizations serious about wellbeing and performance together.
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FAQs on Booking Adam Markel
Why Adam Markel?
Booking Adam Markel brings audiences a rare combination: the credibility of a bestselling author and researcher, and the hard-won perspective of someone who has actually led businesses through pressure and reinvented his own career more than once. Unlike a purely motivational speaker, he delivers a research-backed framework, built on workplace data from more than 27,000 people, that leaders can put to work immediately. Energetic, practical, and grounded, he helps organizations turn constant change and uncertainty from a source of stress into a competitive advantage. He is ideal for events on change, resilience, leadership, culture, and the future of work. To bring Adam Markel to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Adam Markel?
Adam Markel is a keynote speaker, resilience researcher, and number one Wall Street Journal bestselling author known for his work on resilience, reinvention, and leading through change. He is the author of Pivot: The Art & Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life, Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-Term Resilience, and his most recent book, Re-Culture, and is Co-Founder and Chief Researcher of WORKWELL, a firm focused on workplace resilience and culture. Before becoming a full-time author and speaker, he spent eighteen years as a trial attorney and later led one of North America's largest personal and business development training companies as CEO. A TEDx speaker and host of The Change Proof Podcast, he has worked with clients including Citigroup, Home Depot, CVS Health, and Cisco.
What is Adam Markel's book Change Proof about?
Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-Term Resilience (McGraw Hill, 2022) is Adam Markel's bestselling guide to thriving on uncertainty rather than merely surviving it. Markel argues that resilience is commonly misunderstood as simply the ability to "bounce back" after a setback, and that leaders and organizations should aim higher: to actually embrace change and find the creative opportunity within it. Drawing on research, real-world case studies, and his own experience mentoring executives, he lays out the mindset shift required to change your relationship with change, and three concrete actions that make individuals and teams "change proof", able to turn disruption and chaos to their advantage, again and again. The book builds on the ideas in his earlier bestseller, Pivot.
What topics does change management speaker Adam Markel cover?
Adam Markel speaks on building strategic resilience (Change Proof), leading through high-stakes change without triggering resistance, reinvention and the art of the pivot, and beating burnout while sustaining high performance. His keynotes suit events on change, resilience, leadership, culture, and the future of work. To book Adam Markel as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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