Speaking & podcasts
Keynotes, panels, workshops, and podcast appearances on gaming and leadership, leading in change, and nonprofit and organizational excellence.
Topics
Adrian’s analytics career began in World of Warcraft, where she ranked in the top 25 of her class among more than 13 million active players and raided competitively to multiple realm-first kills. The talk makes the case that collaborative games build real technical and leadership skill — data fluency, recruiting under pressure, and strategy that has to change every week.
Change is no longer a moment you lead through. It is the new normal we lead in. Gaming and leading in technology both taught Adrian that change is constant, and that it asks for a different approach than traditional leadership development prepares anyone for. Drawn from a remote-work rollout that took days instead of months, a $1.5 billion campaign that needed its systems rebuilt underneath it, and an agency scaled to the Inc. 5000.
Strengths-based leadership, data teams that hold together, and the operational discipline that lets mission-driven organizations do more with what they already have. For boards, executive teams, and sector convenings.
Formats
Thirty to sixty minutes, tailored to the audience and the moment. Works as an opener to set a frame for the day, or a closer to send people out with something to do on Monday.
As a panelist, or moderating — a role that draws on the same listening the coaching does, and keeps a conversation moving without flattening it.
Half-day or full-day, built around CliftonStrengths for a leadership team or a staff group. Participants leave having named and claimed their own strengths, with a plan for aiming them.
Adrian hosts the Leading in Change podcast and appears as a guest on shows covering leadership, philanthropy, technology, and the case for play.
Selected appearances
Send the event, the audience, and the date. Adrian will come back with availability and a shape for the session.
