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Adam Braun
Adam Braun inspires leaders to build boldly, navigate change, and turn purpose-driven vision into real-world impact.
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Why book Adam Braun for your next event
- Delivers authentic, high-impact keynotes with real-world lessons leaders can apply immediately.
- Helps organizations navigate change, innovate effectively, and take calculated risks in uncertain times.
- Engaging speaker who connects purpose, leadership, and business results in a way that truly resonates.
Non-binding request for Adam Braun
Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author, and Visionary Voice on Leadership and Innovation
Adam Braun is a 3x award-winning entrepreneur, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and globally recognized keynote speaker on leadership and innovation. Known for blending powerful storytelling with actionable frameworks, Adam helps organizations prepare for what’s next by building for where the world is headed. From founding a global nonprofit with just $25 to leading technology companies serving trillion-dollar markets, his journey offers rare, first-hand insight into navigating change, taking strategic risks, and turning vision into measurable results. His keynotes inspire leaders and teams to think differently, act boldly, and create impact that lasts.
Adam Braun: Building for Where the World Is Headed
Adam Braun has built his career at the intersection of leadership, innovation, and purpose. As an entrepreneur who has founded and led organizations across nonprofit and for-profit sectors, he brings a unique perspective on how bold ideas become scalable, sustainable realities. His widely shared talks, viewed more than three million times, center on a clear and teachable framework that helps leaders anticipate change rather than react to it.
Through extensive global experience across 75 countries, Adam has studied how the world’s most effective leaders navigate uncertainty and shape the future. These insights form the backbone of his keynotes, which challenge conventional thinking while offering clear paths to action.
From a $25 Idea to Global Impact
Adam is the founder of Pencils of Promise, an organization he started with $25 that has since built more than 600 schools around the world. What began as a simple idea grew into a global movement, proving that ordinary individuals can create extraordinary change with focus, resilience, and clarity of purpose.
Today, Adam serves as Chairman of Pencils of Promise while also leading Clarasight as CEO, a technology company focused on company sustainability. Clarasight’s clients represent more than $1 trillion in market capitalization, reinforcing Adam’s credibility as a leader who understands both impact and scale.
Leadership Lessons Rooted in Real Experience
Adam’s presentations are grounded in first-hand lessons learned from building pioneering organizations alongside respected leaders at the frontlines of innovation. He speaks candidly about success, failure, and the critical decisions that define long-term outcomes.
Audiences gain practical insight into:
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How to create bold aspirations that mobilize teams
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How to innovate responsibly while driving performance
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How to take calculated risks in uncertain environments
These lessons resonate deeply with executives, managers, and emerging leaders alike.
Bestselling Author and Recognized Thought Leader
Adam is the author of The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change, an international bestseller that reached the #1 spot on What Corporate America Is Reading. His ideas have earned recognition across industries, with honors including Business Insider’s 40 Under 40, Wired’s 50 People Who Will Change the World, the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, and the Jefferson Award for public service.
His thought leadership has been featured widely, reinforcing his reputation as a trusted voice on leadership, innovation, and problem-solving in times of change.
Book Adam Braun for Your Event
Adam Braun has delivered keynote talks for some of the world’s most respected organizations, including Microsoft, Spotify, Meta, Google, and Coca-Cola. He has also spoken at The White House, Stanford and Harvard Business Schools, and leading industry associations and universities.
When you book Adam Braun for your event, you bring in a speaker who inspires action, equips leaders with modern tools, and challenges audiences to build organizations ready for the future. His keynotes leave teams energized, aligned, and prepared to turn vision into results.
Customer Reviews
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"Hi Adam, I can’t count how many people have stopped me throughout the day to share how impactful they found your keynote and subsequent session. We are incredibly grateful to you for sharing your thoughtful insights, wisdom, and perspectives. I couldn’t help notice that the conversations held all throughout the afternoon among our members were focused on action - your message was clearly uplifting, empowering, and already making a difference! With profound appreciation for you, your work, and your impact on our world."
MASBO
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"Adam was a perfect fit for our corporate 100th anniversary event. His manner and talk aligned with our company's purpose and sustainable growth strategy. He affected the audience and underscored our key message so well."
Phoenix Contact USA, Inc.
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“The best speaker I've ever seen in the history of our company's offsite events.”
General CounselCoca-Cola HBC
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“In the case of Adam’s keynote address, “perfect” is applicable... humble, intelligent, purposeful, kind, and disarmingly humorous.”
ChairAll Bonaventure Read, St. Bonaventure University
Rated 5.00/5 based on 4 customer reviews
Keynotes
Keynote by Adam Braun:
The Innovator’s Edge: Building a Future-Ready Organization
In a world characterized by rapid change and uncertainty, the ability to anticipate future trends is a critical leadership skill. This speech explores the strategies and techniques that the most successful leaders employ to gain a competitive edge.
In this riveting presentation, Braun delves into the art of foresight, discussing how to identify emerging trends, analyze potential disruptions, and assess future scenarios. He then explores the importance of cultivating a culture of innovation and experimentation, which enables organizations to adapt and thrive in a dynamic environment. Through storytelling, science and audience engagement, every attendee will gain valuable insights into how to develop their own foresight skills and inspire their organizations to build for the future, today.
Audience Takeaways:
- Unleash your visionary spark by discovering your next groundbreaking idea
- Transform vision into action: Implement tactical steps to bring your idea to life
- How to engage others to build a movement around your ideas
- How to convert early wins into sustained and enduring progress
Keynote by Adam Braun:
Build For Where The World Is Headed
How The Best Leaders Navigate Uncertainty To Shape The Future
How do the world’s most successful leaders navigate uncertainty in a rapidly changing world? Through a teachable four-step framework, Adam Braun shows you how great companies anticipate tomorrow’s reality, today. In this call-to-action of a talk, Braun shares enlightening examples of how others have navigated through unprecedented rates of change to find enduring success, the emerging trends that will shape where we’re headed next, and how to embolden your team to take the concrete actions that will unlock their next big breakthrough.
Drawing from two decades of research and first-hand experiences that come to life in this riveting talk, Braun will have you on the edge of your seat and ready to take action so that you too are prepared for where the world is headed next.
Audience Takeaways:
- Learn the science of how organizations and individuals best navigate change
- Discover how to make bold, calculated decisions to enhance trust and success
- Remove fear and restore a sense of optimism in your people
- Define a course of action rooted in anticipation of what’s next
Keynote by Adam Braun:
The Mindset of Compounding Greatness
The Five Essentials That Drive Repeatable Success
What’s the difference between a one-time success and those that build a culture that produces an enduring legacy?
In this keynote, NY Times bestselling author and award-winning entrepreneur Adam Braun shares the five keys that the most successful teams in the world have imbued into their mentality and processes to create repeatable, resounding successes that power year-over-year growth and evolution.
Through engaging storytelling filled with simple memorable phrases and proven frameworks that teams can start implementing right away in their daily rhythms and habits, Braun elevates not just every attendee’s intentions, but inspires and enables teams to immediately convert their boldest aspirations into the small calculated bets that will drive your most powerful ambitions to become reality.
Audience Takeaways:
- Learn how to instill a mindset of compounding greatness within teams, focusing on incremental improvements that drive sustained success
- Gain tools to enhance daily routines and processes that support individuals to navigate change and achieve consistent peak performance
- Develop your tangible steps to convert ambitious goals into practical actions with every team member contributing to compounding successes
Keynote by Adam Braun:
Ordinary Person, Extraordinary Change
How Every Person Has The Power to Affect The Masses
Most people believe one person can’t make a difference. Adam Braun proves otherwise by captivating audiences with his story of being an ordinary person, creating extraordinary change, something he believes everyone can do. In this inspirational presentation, Braun shares his journey from an ordinary intern to becoming a 3x entrepreneur starting organizations that have raised over $100M and impacted millions of lives.
Rooted in a compelling round-the-world story with humorous twists and turns, Braun anchors this speech around several key learnings that can serve as guideposts when facing the most challenging moments in our careers and lives.
Audience Takeaways:
- How to discover your next big idea
- Tactical steps to turn that big idea into action
- Best practices to engage those around you to build a movement
- Lessons to convert inspiration into enduring growth
Adam Braun Keynote Speaker Demo Reel
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The Five Phrases That Can Change Your Life: Adam Braun at TEDxColumbiaCollege
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