Biography

John D. Adams, Ph.D. – Professor, speaker, author, consultant, and seminar leader -- has been at the forefront of the Organization Development & Transformation profession for over 35 years. His early articulation of issues facing organizations has provided a guiding light for the evolution of organization and change management consulting.

John currently serves as the Chair of the Organizational Systems PhD Program at the Saybrook Graduate School ( San Francisco ); and is a guest faculty member at The Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute in the MBA in Sustainability program.

His latest book, Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered: The Rise of a Sustainable Consciousness, is the culmination of six year’s research, speaking, and writing. This project began while he was the chair of the sustainable development task force at The World Business Academy, and developed through numerous public presentations throughout the 90s. This book, and the speaking emanating from it, are dedicated to John’s grandson, as a representative of the next generation.

John is founder of Eartheart Enterprises, an international speaking, publishing, and consulting business. John has previously served as Manager of Organization Consulting at Blue Shield of California; a manager in executive education and workplace effectiveness at Sun Microsystems; Director of Professional Development at the NTL Institute; and as a Visiting Lecturer at The University of Leeds (U.K.). He has written prolifically in the areas of health and stress management, personal effectiveness at work, and change. John’s earlier books, Transforming Work and Transforming Leadership, are widely held as defining a new role for the Organization Development profession in a rapidly transforming world.