Adam Markel
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Adapt to Win: Unlocking the Power of Strategic Resilience to Lead Change and Fuel High Performance
The pace of disruption is now outpacing the pace of organizational adaptation — and the leaders who win are the ones who embed strategic resilience into the DNA of their culture. In this high-impact keynote, Adam Markel shows organizations how to move beyond reactive fire-drills and build a proactive capability for absorbing shocks, accelerating intelligent adaptation, and emerging stronger from every challenge. Drawing on insights from Re-Culture and two decades of research, Adam illustrates exactly how high-performing organizations operationalize resilience as a strategic advantage — across leadership, team dynamics, and decision-making.
Key Learning Objectives Include:
- Understand the critical difference between operational resilience and strategic resilience — and why long-term success requires both.
- Learn leadership practices proven to increase adaptability, psychological safety, and team-wide agility.
- Gain frameworks to embed resilience into culture, strategy, and operations for consistent high performance during transformation.
- Leave with a practical roadmap for building organizations that don’t just withstand change — they capitalize on it.
This keynote gives your people a clear, repeatable blueprint for building systems, habits, and cultures that thrive in uncertainty. Attendees walk away equipped to lead with greater confidence, elevate team performance, and future-proof the business in a world where the only constant is change.
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Books by Adam Markel
“Re-Culture: A Leadership Guide to Restore Connection, Collaboration, and Trust in Today's Disconnected Workplace” (2026)
Re-Culture: A Leadership Guide to Restore Connection, Collaboration, and Trust in Today's Disconnected Workplace
“Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-term Resilience” (2022)
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 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.
“The I Love My Life Challenge: The Art & Science of Reconnecting with Your Life: A Breakthrough Guide to Spark Joy, Innovation, and Growth” (2021)
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.
“Pivot: The Art and Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life” (2016)
The successful CEO of the internationally renowned Peak Potentials—who has trained thousands of people to find new jobs, careers, and directions—shares his practical and inspirational program for reinventing yourself, whether you are out of work or want to change your professional trajectory.What would you do in your life if you knew you could not fail?That’s the question answered in Pivot, a roadmap for embracing your true potential without abandoning your responsibilities or risking your future. As a transformational teacher and the CEO of Peak Potentials, which has trained more than one million 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, or 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.Success and personal fulfillment are within reach! Program your internal GPS to a destination of your wildest imagination—all it takes to change your path is one right turn.
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