Adam Josephs, Managing Partner
Celerity Consulting Group
February 14, 2025
Hybrid work, digital transformation, and AI have upended organizations, while partnerships and ecosystems have displaced traditional vertical integration. Many institutions have lost the trust of their people. Leaders and influencers have embraced transactional leadership, breaking commitments, betraying partners, and reducing employees to numbers in layoff announcements. Given this uncertainty, complexity, and conflicting messages, it can be hard to know where to start building high-performance organizations.
Drawing on two decades of coaching teams at global technology companies and advising CEOs, Adam Josephs will explore how organizations can build resilience by rigorously and systematically engineering four foundational principles into their culture: Integrity (do what you say), Transparency (shared understanding of reality), Accountability (singular ownership of a result), and Commitment (it will be so even in the face of circumstances). These principles create a constructive tension that forces risks to surface early and leads to commitments being kept—giving teams the clarity and confidence to act decisively.
This talk isn’t about reaffirming aspirational ideals. Instead, it will focus on specific, actionable ways to deploy these principles to upgrade the performance of your teams and organizations. You will leave this session equipped with practical structures and strategies that create meaningful change and drive measurable improvements in how your teams operate and deliver results.
Adam Josephs is a Managing Partner at Celerity Consulting Group, where he helps global organizations accelerate innovation and transformation. His experience includes senior roles at Apple and Microsoft, where he led product development and organizational change initiatives. A graduate of Stanford and Oxford Universities, he is the co-author of Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World and has taught at NYU and UC Berkeley. His approach to organizational effectiveness combines deep technology industry experience, academic rigor, and practical frameworks for building high-performing organizations.