Hi, I’m Adam Thomas
I am a coach, an advisor, and a leader. I help bring out the true nature of people and the best of them. I remove the cramped white noise of relationships in a few ways.
I take a different approach than other coaches in my field
I am not a life coach that tells you about a couple areas of your life, nor am I productivity expert that lets you squeeze everything out of all the time you’ve got. I just make sure you are executing on the right thing at the right time.
Instead of productivity, I offer self awareness, not the endless apps to maximize your time, but the honesty to admit your beautiful faults and imperfections. Then find a small win.
instead of constant menial tasks, and putting out fires, I show how to prioritize the most essential tasks greater than the 80/20 rule
Let’s get real here. We all heard of the “motivation guru’s”. Guess what? I’m not that guy, I’m here to give you the hard truth about leadership.
Interested in hearing about my leadership journey?
In college, I build a startup which, in action, taught me more of what not to do as a leader than what to do (Ever have half your staff quit on you?). My learnings building the tech behind the startup led to a great half decade in the Financial District of NYC. Working in finance and helping to manage a quad-trillion dollars of transactions was fun, but not the path for me, so in 2016 I quit.
A leader of one means that whether or not you are in a corporate firm or are the newbie intern on the team, but leader of one is an internal and an external leader. For example, an internal one is a mental game on the inside, and an external one is an infectious leader.
This blog began as a venting platform for me outside of work, but also was a way for me to write about my learnings as a leader. I wasn’t the boss, nor at the top of the organizational chart, but I was a leader of one. As I started my sabbatical, I jumped back into the startup world, got to coach in altMBA, and began to really explore the lessons I learned in both corporate america and the world of entrepreneurship.
HERE’S ANOTHER BLOODY TRUTH
Nobody has all the answers, and the answer to motivating my teammates wasn’t tattling to my coach. It was getting my teammates to see the same vision and buy the same vision I was buying.
I”d love to hear what you are working on, and how I can help. Shoot me a note In the meantime, check out these cool work tools I use to manage my own workfow.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 