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Adam Kingl

Adam Kingl is a leadership expert, author and speaker. Multi-talented, Adam’s career has spanned many different industries, including entertainment, consulting, and education. He has spent decades working in innovation, strategy, culture and leadership.

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About Adam Kingl

Adam Kingl’s keynote presentations are truly enlightening and not only encourage strategic innovation but also inspire creativity and explain issues within organisational culture. He presents with warmth and empathy on paradigms of work and leadership, encouraging organisations to have different and more constructive dialogues, creating a simple and approachable path to transforming business success.

Adam Kingl works with a variety of prestigious academic institutions. He is an adjunct faculty member at the UCL School of Management and Ashridge-Hult International Business School and is an instructor and programme director at Imperial College, Moller Institute – Churchill College – University of Cambridge, Hanken-Stockholm School of Economics, Headspring (FT and IE Business School joint venture) and Sauder Business School – the University of British Columbia.  Previously, Adam was the Regional Managing Director for Duke Corporate Education, leading the organisation’s business in Europe, and advising clients on issues of adaptability, performance, creativity, and purpose. Adam was also the Executive Director of Thought Leadership and Learning Solutions at London Business School for a decade. He has been an associate of Saatchi & Saatchi and the Management Lab.

Adam is passionate about the future of work and has authored a book on this topic, “Next Generation Leadership,” (Harper Collins; February 2020).

He contributes as a writer and expert interviewee to: The Financial Times, Sunday Times, Forbes, Fortune, The Guardian and Fast Company, among many others.

Adam holds degrees from London Business School, UCLA, and Yale. He was raised in Silicon Valley, California and now lives in Surrey, UK. He is a dual British-American citizen.

To book Keynote Speaker Adam Kingl, contact The Speakers Agency on +44(0)1332 810481 or email enquiries@thespeakersagency.com 

Speech Topics

Generation Y Paradigms of Work & Leadership

There has been plenty of literature and discussion on ‘how to manage Gen Ys’. If their paradigms of work and ‘how to be led’ are indeed very different to those of their managers of earlier generations, then surely how Gen Ys will lead their organisations in the near future will look and feel new. Therefore, the nature of work and leadership is about to change in fundamental ways.

 

Strategic Innovation: Disrupting Your Industry with New Business Models

We often hear about innovation in the context of inventing new products or services.  One of the innovation levers of senior executives, one which can be even more powerful in transforming business success, is reinventing one’s business model. While the implications of strategic innovation can be profound, the process of identifying the industry-disruptive idea that reinventing one’s business can be very simple and approachable – it’s a matter of having different and better conversations.  We will explore how to do so.

 

Management Innovation: Are Your Management Principles Fit For The 21st Century?

Over the last century, business has modernised it almost every way except for how it organises, leads, coordinates and motivates its people. Yes, those organisations who have innovated their act of management are celebrated as pioneers and leaders in their respective industries. It is possible for every business to develop a formal method for reinventing its management, just as it has done for products and processes for decades. Management breakthroughs can deliver incredibly powerful competitive advantages that are more sustainable and of a larger scale than any other creative act.

 

A Return to Human-Centric Leadership

In company life, we are returning, on a several-hundred year cycle, to the pre-eminence of humanity at the centre of what it means to lead.  ‘Focusing on humanity’ implies recalling what followers notice first in their leaders – their behaviours.  Then, we have to ask if those behaviours provide clarity, inspiration, engagement, coherence and enable creativity.  The Renaissance was a flowering not only of the arts but of commerce, and the interdependency of those two forces.  Are we in the midst of a new Renaissance of leadership that is asking us what it means to be human?

 

The Evolution of Capitalism: From Shareholders to Stakeholders

In August 2019, Chief Executives from the Business Roundtable, including those from Apple and JPMorgan Chase, argued that companies should no longer advance only the interests of shareholders. The shift comes at a moment of increasing distress in the corporate world amidst global discontent over income inequality, sustainability and substandard quality of work-life.  Business as usual is no longer acceptable. Though this shift seems unique, history shows us that capitalism has evolved numerous times over the centuries.  At this inflection point, what can businesses do to survive and thrive, and who are the bellwethers to listen to within our organisations?

What sets our speakers apart is not just their credentials, but their ability to engage and captivate.

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Here you can find links to books by Adam Kingl. For bulk book orders for your event please speak with a member of the team.

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Testimonials

"I am getting excellent feedback from your presentation, you were fabulous !! That was an absolutely brilliant opening session! Extremely engaging and sets the tone for the summit!"

IQVIA

"Adam’s role as a facilitator and the MC of our company-wide conference has been one of the highlights. He kept the event vibrant and consistent, also adding interesting new perspectives on change and how organisations should react to adapt and remain successful."

EXA Infrastructure

"Thanks for the wonderful session. It was well received and an eye opener."

CGI Inc, India

"Your presentation last year is probably the most engaging and entertaining one I've seen in a workplace."

DB Cargo

"Let me first say that our group is a tough one and are very critical of speakers from the outside. However, our group loved Adam’s talk. They felt it was relevant, to the point, and everyone could relate to what was covered. I received compliments on Adam all day."

RGL Forensics

"Interactive and engaging session with strong relevance to current challenges and practices."

Tremco Illbruck

"Adam delivered a tour de force presentation to City Lit’s annual staff conference this year. Addressing over 400 staff, Adam captivated the theatre with an exceptional mixture of insight and analysis delivered in an engaging and fun way."

City Lit, London

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