Adam Smiley Poswolsky

Millennial Workplace Expert, Keynote Speaker, Author at Penguin Random House

San Francisco

Adam Smiley Poswolsky is a millennial workplace expert, internationally renowned 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’s inspired thousands of professionals to be more engaged at work, through speaking at companies like Facebook, Uber, IDEO, Unilever, Salesforce, Deloitte, Pinterest, MailChimp, Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and TED. His TEDx talk has been viewed over 1 million times, and he has done hundreds of speaking engagements, reaching over 50,000 people in 15 countries. Smiley’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc., Business Insider, Entrepreneur, CNN, and the World Economic Forum, among many others. 

In 2017, Smiley launched The Women Speaker Initiative, a community that aims to increase the number of women and people of color speaking at conferences and companies, as well as ensure that women and underrepresented speakers are paid competitively as compared to their colleagues. The group now has over 2,500 members.