Lead People, Teams, and Yourself to Greatness
Adam Mendler is a top-rated leadership speaker and a nationally recognized authority on leadership, renowned for his unique ability to deliver perspective-shifting insights shaped by interviewing more than 500 of America’s most successful leaders.
As the creator and host of Thirty Minute Mentors, Adam regularly interviews Fortune 500 CEOs, founders of household name companies, Hall of Fame and Olympic gold medal-winning athletes, four-star generals, and major political leaders.
Adam has authored more than 70 articles published in major media outlets, including Forbes, Inc., and HuffPost; has led businesses across a variety of industries; has worked for prominent companies in finance, entertainment, and sports; has created corporate learning content used by executives around the world; and teaches graduate-level courses on leadership at UCLA.
As a leadership keynote speaker, Adam partners with a wide range of organizations and works closely with each client to deliver a highly customized experience grounded in two universal goals: that every person in the room walks away with new information that they can apply immediately to enjoy greater success in leading their own lives and leading others and that they are motivated and inspired to act.
Booking a keynote speaker is easy. Booking the right one is not.
Adam delivers more than just a keynote – he fosters transformational experiences that challenge, inspire, and elevate leadership at every level.
Adam’s leadership keynotes are designed to spark individual and collective growth and transformation. Adam blends captivating stories, engaging exercises, and perspective-shifting insights and strategies to enable leaders at all levels to lead themselves and others to elevated levels of performance.
Dive deeper into the strategies and insights that can allow you and your team to reach the next level of success through half-day and full-day workshops, leadership trainings, and leadership retreats. Adam leads highly interactive sessions that leave each attendee with a clear, personalized roadmap and better connected to and ready to thrive in collaboration with their colleagues.
Engage Adam and one of America’s most accomplished leaders in a highly customized, fireside-chat style session, focused on the topics most pertinent to your audience. Adam designs bespoke in-person and virtual experiences, offering organizations the ability to access the best thought leadership from top CEOs, founders, military leaders, political leaders, and athletes at their events.
The difference between a deeply-engaging, highly-memorable fireside chat or panel discussion and one that falls flat is often determined not by who is being interviewed, but by who is entrusted with the responsibility of conducting the interview. Having interviewed thousands of prominent leaders, thought leaders, and newsmakers across business, sports, entertainment, and government, Adam brings unique experience and gravitas to each engagement, conversation, and role. Whether as a leadership conference speaker, facilitator, interviewer, moderator, host, or emcee, Adam curates powerful conversations that galvanize audiences and focus on what matters most to the people in the room.
Adam kept [attendees] engaged with relevant content that was delivered in a way that they left empowered and ready to change the world. Adam was extremely flexible and willing to meet several times to ensure the speech was not only on topic but engaging and relevant. I highly recommend Adam for any speaking event as he has a unique ability to tailor the material to the targeted audience with immeasurable impact.
“Although Adam has years of experience in the business world, he is so humble and down to earth when he speaks. Adam is extremely approachable, and it feels as if he is speaking to close friends when he presents. He personally connects with each member of the audience, and he knows how to really listen, validate, and include everyone’s input. Adam willingly shares his advice and is happy to help others succeed. He is not afraid to talk about the difficulties he had to face, personal and professional, proving that failure is a part of success. Adam is extremely relatable, and because of this, he is able to foster a unique sense of trust and understanding with his audience when he speaks.”
Adam Mendler is one of the most unique public speakers I’ve had the pleasure of listening to! I’ve witnessed his stand-and-deliver style as well as when he uses visual aids. Whatever kind of talk he does, not only does he engage the audience with his charm, but he also makes the experience feel like a conversation more than delivering a ‘lecture.’ I can appreciate his ways of speaking because he doesn’t make himself sound like he is above everyone else, but that we all can learn something from one another. It’s rare to find a public speaker who is both humble and successful in his delivery.
Adam has a unique ability to synthesize high-level concepts on success and leadership and to present these in a fireside chat manner presentation style, approachable to any audience. Our group was spellbound and the feedback afterwards was uniformly positive. We hope to have him back soon for a ‘tune-up‘.
Adam was inspiring, insightful, and entertaining. He weaves together knowledge drawn from his hundreds of interviews and distills this into action items anyone can absorb and use personally and professionally. Highly recommend!
Adam’s presentation was, in a word, dynamic. He presented a leadership philosophy that was both easy to understand but also incredibly thought-provoking.
Adam was recently a speaker for our cohort. Everyone was blown away by not only his breadth of knowledge but his ability to use relatable examples to drive home the concepts he discussed. The members asked a wide range of questions about their companies and Adam took the time to carefully address and ensure they fully understood the concepts. Adam’s delivery was professional, yet highly relatable to members in our program at all stages of growth.
I would highly recommend Adam as a caring, collaborative, and impactful speaker that will resonate with attendees at your event! Adam’s one quality that really stood out to us was his willingness to go the extra mile and really take the time to get to know who our audience was and what was important to them, not just professionally, but also as it pertained to our cultural nuances. It would have been easy for him to simply dust off and recycle a presentation that he has used in the past, but instead, he spent time with our Speaker Committee doing his due diligence and researching our audience so that he could tailor his remarks and really connect with attendees. Adam is professional and prepared, and he has a checklist to work from that helped us to ensure his session went smoothly. If you are looking for a speaker who will put in the time, and when it is time, will stand and deliver, Adam is a great choice for your event.
Adam’s top-rated podcast, Thirty Minute Mentors, is a go-to resource for listeners around the world looking to attain next-level success personally, professionally, and as a leader. Each episode offers an inside look into the mind of one of America’s top CEOs, founders, athletes, celebrities, and political and military leaders, filled with actionable takeaways in just 30 minutes. Each week, Adam and one of America's most prominent and successful people deliver fresh insights and strategies highly applicable to listeners across all levels of their leadership journeys - from emerging leaders to CEOs.
Adam shares lessons learned from his conversation with a fifteen-time Emmy Award winner on Open Sesame’s ICON series.
Adam covers a wide range of topics, including how to ignite success, on Ignite Humanity.
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While Adam speaks to a wide range of audiences, he approaches every keynote and workshop with the same two goals. First, that every person in the room walks away with new, practical leadership insights they can apply immediately to be more effective. Second, that every person leaves motivated and inspired to act on what they learned.
As a leadership keynote speaker, Adam focuses on tangible ideas rooted in real-world leadership challenges, not abstract theory or motivational hype. Each session is designed to help leaders at all levels better understand what it actually takes to lead today and how to translate that understanding into better decisions, stronger performance, and more meaningful impact at work and beyond.
The best way to understand what you can expect from one of Adam’s keynotes or workshops is through the words of those who have attended past events, shared in the testimonials.
Most likely, yes. Adam has been hired to speak to organizations across an extraordinarily wide range of industries, in part because he has conducted in-depth interviews with top leaders in virtually every industry. That firsthand exposure allows him to identify what carries across sectors and what must be adapted to each specific setting.
Those insights are further informed by Adam’s own experience working within large organizations and building and leading entrepreneurial ventures. As a business leadership speaker, Adam has extensive experience working with corporate teams, non-profit organizations and associations, and universities, and he customizes each keynote or workshop to reflect the audience, context, and leadership challenges at hand.
Absolutely. While the core principles of effective leadership are universal, every audience is different. Adam approaches each keynote and workshop with a clear understanding of who the audience is and what matters most to them.
In the same way he meticulously prepares for every Thirty Minute Mentors interview, Adam takes the time to understand the organization, the context, and the specific topics and challenges facing the audience. That preparation allows him to tailor each session to the realities leaders are navigating.
Absolutely. Adam brings extensive experience from interviewing thousands of prominent leaders and thought leaders across business, sports, entertainment, politics, and the military, and he applies that experience as a facilitator, moderator, host, and emcee at live and virtual events.
Depending on what will add the most value for your audience and program, Adam can support your event in a single role or across multiple formats. Organizations regularly engage him as a leadership keynote speaker, a panel moderator, a fireside chat interviewer, a host, or in a combination of roles within the same event.
Adam is happy to travel to any city, state, or country that is not sanctioned by the U.S. government. He is based in Los Angeles, but regularly travels across the United States and has spoken internationally in countries as close as Canada and as far as Bulgaria.
In addition to in-person events, Adam also delivers virtual keynotes and workshops, allowing organizations to engage him regardless of location.
Adam prides himself on his accessibility. Clients are encouraged to contact him directly on his cell phone or via email at any time, before booking, during the planning process, and after the event. At events, Adam shares his contact information with all attendees, giving them a direct way to stay connected beyond the event.
Adam is typically the last person to leave after the session ends, making himself available to anyone who wants to continue the conversation.
There is no wrong time to reach out. Speaking opportunities can be discussed at any stage of your planning process.
That said, earlier is always better, as Adam’s schedule often fills up well in advance. Whether your event is two years away or two weeks out, it is always worth getting in touch. Contact us today to explore availability.
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