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Adam brings a pastor's heart and an operator's clarity to the stage, weaving disarmingly honest stories with practical frameworks that help high-achieving founders find a healthier, more sustainable way to lead.
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The Healed Hustle
HELPING LEADERS BUILD WHAT MATTERS WITHOUT LOSING WHAT MATTERS MOST
Too many mission-driven entrepreneurs are trapped in an unsustainable hustle. Your ambition is either fueling sustainability or pushing you toward chaos. Without a strategy to regulate it, many leaders end up exhausted, workaholics, and losing what they set out to build.
Imagine waking up with the peace of knowing your success isn’t costing you everything that matters most. What if you could impact lives without losing yours?
Drawing on 20+ years of leadership across church planting, Silicon Valley startups, and enterprise product work — plus a personal collapse that rebuilt him from the inside out — Adam delivers a talk audiences remember and teams act on.
What audiences will walk away with:
-A diagnostic for the seven core drivers of ambition and which ones are quietly eroding your leaders
-The "healed why" framework: how to reframe motivation without shrinking the vision
-Why 88% of mission-driven entrepreneurs burn out and the specific patterns that predict it
-A language for the tension every high achiever feels between traction and sustainability
-Practical rhythms teams can implement Monday morning not aspirational advice
“Adam has a unique way of sharing powerful truth with authenticity, humor, and practical takeaways. Our attendees walked away encouraged, challenged, and inspired. I cannot recommend Adam enough.””
— Ashley Sears
BOOKING AGENT @ BAREFOOT MEDIA
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Speaking testimonials— Ashley Sears
BOOKING AGENT @ BAREFOOT MEDIA
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— Brian Taylor
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & LEAD VISIONARY
THE VALLEY NETWORK
ABOUT ADAM
From pulpits to product teams, from church staff retreats to rooms full of venture backed founders, from the corporate leadership floor to the missional nonprofit ...
Adam shows up wherever mission-driven people are running on empty and hands them a better way to work: from grace, not for it.
Knowing firsthand the cost of unregulated ambition. Once a pastor, now a Silicon Valley design strategist, Adam built multiple ventures launching churches, tech startups and leading design at Intuit, contributing to $115M+ in ARR — while nearly losing everything to relentless hustle.
Adam is a great fit for
Founder Communities & Entrepreneur Events
There are endless speakers on how to 10x this and 10x that Adam teaches high achieving leaders, who are succeeding on the outside and running on empty underneath, how to last.
Faith-Driven Leaders & Ministry Staff
As a former pastor, Adam understands leaders whose work is a calling and how calling can burn them out. He brings honest, practical tools that helps keep leaders in the game.
Leadership Conferences
Adam gives leaders a diagnostic for spotting unsustainable ambition, in themselves and their teams, and an 8-step process to realign it before high performers quietly break.
High-Growth Tech & Product Organizations
From Silicon Valley design strategy to the founder's chair, Adam knows the cost of shipping at all costs. He helps tech teams sustain velocity without sacrificing the people producing it.
Executive Teams Offsites
Adam works with leadership teams whose top performers leave with a shared language for pace, motivation, and what sustainable high performance actually requires.
Professional Associations & Member Organizations
Adam’s keynote treats burnout as a strategy problem, not a self-care problem, and sends members home with a framework they'll actually use.
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