Biography

John D. Adams, Ph.D. – Professor, speaker, author, consultant, and seminar leader – has been at the forefront of the Organization Development and Transformation profession since 1969. His early articulation of issues facing organizations has provided a guiding light for the evolution of organization and change management consulting. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer (PINCC) and also serves as Administrative Director for PINCC-India. He has recently served on the Board of Directors and as Director of Education for The Foothill Collaborative for Sustainability (FoCuS), an educational nonprofit that promotes sustainable living and community self-reliance in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties.

John is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Systems, and was for many years the Chair of the Faculty and the Chair of the Organizational Systems Ph.D. Program at the Saybrook Graduate School (San Francisco). He was also as 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 several years' research, speaking, and writing. This project began while he was the chair of the sustainable development task force at The World Business Academy (1990), and developed through numerous public presentations throughout the 90s.

John is founder of Eartheart Enterprises, an international speaking, publishing, and consulting business. His clients have come primarily from the health care and high tech areas, including work with (Health Care) the NIH, the NHS in the U.K., Holy Cross system, Sisters of Mercy system; and (High Tech) Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Sun Microsystems, Naval Air Systems Command.

John has also previously served as Manager of Organization Consulting at Blue Shield of California; a manager in executive development and in 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, sustainable development, 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.