Adam Braun
NYT bestselling author and social entrepreneur, inspires audiences to pursue bold visions that align profit, innovation, and meaningful impact.
Why you should book Adam Braun for your next event
- CEO of Clarasight, guiding sustainability strategies for companies worth more than $1 trillion, Adam provides leaders with cutting-edge tools to integrate innovation and sustainability. His keynotes empower organizations to secure long-term relevance and competitive advantage.
- Founder of Pencils of Promise, building over 600 schools worldwide from just $25, Adam Braun shares the remarkable journey of transforming a small idea into a global movement. He equips organizations with strategies to scale bold visions into measurable results.
- Raised over $100 million for pioneering ventures across industries, Adam reveals proven frameworks to mobilize resources, inspire teams, and achieve ambitious goals. He shows organizations how to accelerate growth by aligning purpose with performance and impact.
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From Bold Vision to Global Impact: Lessons in Leadership and Innovation
A bestselling author and award-winning entrepreneur, Adam Braun delivers powerful keynotes on leadership, innovation, and purpose-driven growth. With proven strategies from building $100M+ ventures and 600+ schools, he equips organizations to embrace change, inspire teams, and drive lasting impact.
Keynote Speaker Adam Braun is recognized worldwide as a pioneering entrepreneur, bestselling author, and transformative voice on leadership, innovation, and purpose-driven business. He is the founder of Pencils of Promise, a nonprofit that has built over 600 schools globally, and the CEO of Clarasight, a sustainability technology company advising clients representing more than $1 trillion in market capitalization. With his unique ability to translate bold visions into measurable outcomes, Adam has helped organizations raise over $100 million and guided leaders in navigating complex challenges with clarity and confidence.
When you book Adam Braun for your event, you bring in a speaker who not only inspires but equips audiences with practical tools to lead with purpose, embrace change, and innovate in uncertain times. His bestselling book, The Promise of a Pencil, reached #1 on “What Corporate America Is Reading” and his insights have been shared at the White House, Stanford, Harvard, and Fortune 500 companies worldwide.
Adam’s keynotes are engaging, actionable, and tailored to business leaders seeking to motivate teams, foster resilience, and align profitability with impact. With experience across more than 75 countries, he distills universal lessons from top global leaders into strategies organizations can apply immediately.
Book Adam Braun for your event and empower your audience to think bigger, act boldly, and drive sustainable success in the future of work.
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
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