What gets him excited
Combining things that belong together, but that aren’t always.
Like what?
Personal and professional development; Physics and philosophy.
How did he end up at ReConsulting?
Ten years of searching for the human side of consulting.
Where has he been on the way?
Strategy consultancy, culture change, leadership and youth development.
Favourite activity
Too many to choose. Loves karate, sailing, surfing, singing and playing music.
Adam’s career has centred on helping people to combine theory and practice, and to learn from experience.
Having worked as a sailing instructor in summer holidays, Adam graduated in Physics and Philosophy and started his full-time career as a strategy consultant. Since then he has worked for a number of organisations in outdoor management training, leadership, youth development and change management consultancy.
Adam joined ReConsulting at the start of 2005. Before this he worked as an independent consultant to businesses and educational organisations. He ran a culture change project for ICI, using a combination of skills and methods to help the organisation through significant change. It was during this project that he identified his specialty and did a Masters in Change Management, sometimes billed as a human-focused MBA.
Prior to this Adam established regular contracts with Neilson Sailing and Thomas Cook, working with managers in Greece and South Africa. Identifying a leadership development opportunity with a difference, he also got involved with Bridge Management Training, combining leadership and youth development. Here he facilitated - and experienced - the profound personal and professional breakthroughs which laid the foundations for later work.
Adam spent three years with Mars & Co strategy consultants helping Pepsi sell cold drinks in Siberia. Providing the planning and research horsepower behind an ambitious start-up and seeing the project through from business plan to full scale operation, Adam loved living in Russia, eventually moving on to pursue the human side of consulting in warmer climes.
Adam loves sailing and surfing. He learned to sail in Malaysia, then spent his youth crashing fast dinghies and windsurfers around the South Coast of England, and teaching other people how to manage their comfort zones whilst afloat. Having sailed across the Atlantic as a teenager he crewed yachts professionally in the Mediterranean for a couple of seasons. He is a qualified yacht skipper.
After an amazing surf-trip to Australia, and realising that London was not near enough to the sea, Adam took up karate as a surfing substitute. He has since won medals in international tournaments, competing in the USA and recently Japan.
Adam fills gaps in his spare time singing and playing music.