Bill Adams

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Bill brings thirty years of leadership development experience to his clients – the CEOs of major Fortune 500 corporations, non-profits and private equity start-up businesses. As a consultant, trusted advisor and coach, he works with senior executives in the areas of strategy, alignment, performance and leadership effectiveness. Bill’s expertise is working with clients to lead large-scale change and cultural transformation within their organizations.

Paramount to his success is his ability to partner with senior executives to create lasting change. Together, they focus on total participation and creating employee populations willing to invest their discretionary energy in the work while assuming personal responsibility for the results they produce.

During his career, Bill has worked with executives in many different industries including energy, utilities, telecommunications, travel and finance. Clients include: Commonwealth Edison (ComEd), DTE Energy, Unico Properties, Cbeyond Communications, McDonald’s, Carlson Companies, Westin Hotels, Kaiser Permanente, StarTek, Ameritech, Intermedia Communications, GOJO Industries, Michigan Consolidated Gas Company (MichCon), First Security Inc. (Wells Fargo), American Express Travel Related Services, First National Bank & Trust of Rockford, Kemper Insurance, 3M Health Information Systems, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Tupperware Worldwide, Equitable Life & Casualty, Beneficial Life Insurance, US Express Leasing, Tygris Commercial Finance Group, Global English World Headquarters, Visible Customer and Yale University.

With over thirty years of business experience, Bill is a leader, consultant and entrepreneur and has worked in internal corporate staff and line positions. Bill co-authored the books, The Whole Systems Approach: Involving Everyone in the Company to Transform and Run Your Business and The Quest for Quality: Prescriptions for Achieving Service Excellence. He contributed to two editions of The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future as well as to Managing Quality in America’s Most Admired Companies. Bill has also led the joint venture conferences Self-Organizing Systems: The New Science of Participation.^TM

Bill has a master’s degree in interpersonal and organizational communication from the University of Montana. He loves to travel and enjoys the outdoors, especially his lodge, Deer Hollow.