ADAIR LEADERSHIP

Consultants can get caught in a number of traps, mostly of their own devising. Since so much of good consulting involves understanding where leadership opinion is divided, building alignment where possible, and developing momentum behind an action plan, one trap is to get very focused on what others think, and not really develop a distinctive point of view. Clients call this trap ‘borrowing your watch to tell you what time it is.'... I was raised in North Carolina, the oldest son of a trained classical pianist and a Marine Corps fighter pilot, each of whom was the first in their respective families to go to college. I was sent to prep school in the Northeast at Phillips Academy-Andover (plucked out of public school in Durham by my music teacher, who had sent her sons to Andover), and my life took one of those lucky turns that makes all the difference…... I received my undergraduate degree in English and American Literature from Harvard, an MBA from Boston University's Questrom School..

Also known as: Adair Leadership Consulting LLC

Primary location: Chestnut Hill United States