Adam Smiley Poswolsky

About Speaker Adam Smiley Poswolsky…

Adam Smiley Poswolsky is a millennial workplace expert, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of The Quarter-Life Breakthrough (Penguin Random House) and The Breakthrough Speaker.

Smiley helps companies attract, retain, and empower millennial talent, and he has inspired thousands of professionals to be more engaged at work, through speaking at companies like ASAE, AMCI, Unilever, Salesforce, Facebook, Genentech, IDEO, Deloitte, SAP, Pinterest, and TED. An internationally renowned motivational speaker, Smiley speaks about millennials, employee engagement, and intergenerational collaboration at Fortune 500 companies, business conferences, associations, leadership trainings, and universities. His TEDx talk has been viewed over 750,000 times, and he has done hundreds of speaking engagements, reaching over 50,000 people in 14 countries.

Smiley’s writing has been published in The Washington Post, Fast Company, Time, and Business Insider, and his work has been featured in USA Today, Forbes, Inc., Mashable, CNN, CNBC, MarketWatchand the World Economic Forum, among others.

Smiley’s brings both expertise and a youthful energy and optimisim to his inspiring keynotes. Forbes says that “If you want to tap into the mindset of millennials, the person to talk to is Adam Smiley Poswolsky.” His work is motivational and adds value, as Smiley helps organizations:

• Increase employee engagement
• Attract, retain and engage millennial talent
• Understand generational differences and improve collaboration across generations
• Innovate HR and talent operations
• Build a purpose-driven people-first company culture that empowers employees through coaching, increased learning and growth opportunities in the workplace, and a values-based strategy

Smiley is frequently the highest-rated keynote speaker at conferences and events and one of the world’s top experts on multigenerational workplaces and generational differences.