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You can make a difference.

Invite Lori to speak at your next event and discover how her career in global leadership development, her ability to speak 6 languages, and work in Silicon Valley, Asia, Europe and South America can dramatically improve your team Performance, Commitment, Collaboration, Culture and Leadership.

Lori Speaks Globally

Lori has spoken at conferences across the US, in Asia, Europe and South America in multiple languages.

Lori can help you and your organization grow by developing leaders and including more perspectives to speak into the internal and external obstacles that you face. Lori uses research-based tools from over 20 years of global experience of leading international teams and developing global change makers around the world. Lori’s M.A. in Intercultural Studies, her ability to speak 6 languages, and her multicultural methods take leadership development to the next level and help you be a leader ready for the rapid changes happening in leadership all around the globe. The future of work is here, and Lori helps you and your team be ready for it.

“Teams make their best decisions when there are as many different types of brains around the table as possible.”

-Lori Adams-Brown

After over 20 years of professional international experience of working in nonprofits and business while living in Central & South America, Asia and the San Francisco Bay Area, Lori has vast experience in global leadership development that is based in the latest research at the cusp of how leadership is changing around the world. She will help you make an impact and show you and your team how to take what is working and add what is missing so that what is great becomes superb.

Lori’s Background

“Not all great minds think alike, and that is such a good thing for all of us.”

— Lori Adams-Brown

Lori’s career has taken her around the world. During her years in Southeast Asia, she led global teams to do work in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Brunei. She speaks Indonesian and Malay.

Lori is an engaging conference speaker.

Lori is a connector who puts people first and values the lasting partnerships she builds. Lori is an active listener who cares about the stories people share and is energized by communication and teamwork. She is a lifelong learner and known for bringing innovative perspectives and questions to the decision-making table.

She is deadline and results-driven, passionate about creating better processes, systems, and best practices that help her teams, clients and partners do their best work.

Lori is Endorsed By Female Executive Search

Leadership Development

Decision making is a skill in leadership development.

Here are 3 questions Lori can help you ask when making significant decisions.

Belonging at Work

  • Cultivating belonging in a work environment isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s also the smart thing to do.

  • Inclusive teams make better decisions.

  • Cultures of belonging are not easy to cultivate, and it does take time and intentionality. However, going slow to go fast can really pay off.


Why cultivating belonging matters for your team

Podcasts Where Lori Has Been Interviewed

  • Talkin' Politics and Religion Without Killin' Each Other

    Lori shares about "cultural humility”

  • Twenty All-Things

    Making A Difference During Your 20s:

    Lori talks about working in the Indonesian tsunami of 2004

  • Introducing Me Podcast

    Lori talks about how growing up as a TCK gave her cross-cultural communication skills that have paid off in her career across Asia and now in Silicon Valley

  • Join the Conversation with Denise Clark

    Lori spoke about the future of work and increasing needs for belonging

  • Women, Faith, & Business

    Lori speaks on business for women and the future of work

  • Steps to Sobriety Podcast

    Lori speaks about being trauma-informed as an International Relief & Development Medical Director

  • Bodies Behind the Bus

    Lori talks about what it looks like to champion women

  • Hagar's Voice

    Lori shares the importance of well-being in the workplace

  • At the Bus Stop

    Lori speaks about the petition to end faith-based NDAs

  • Untangled Faith

    Lori speaks about her experience of being interviewed by journalists

  • Liminal Living

    Lori describes toxic leadership and how to decode image management

  • Untangled Faith

    Lori speaks on the value of creating safe spaces for whistleblowers to speak up in work environments

  • Talkin' Politics and Religion Without Killin' Each Other

    Lori speaks on US politics, midterms and the Equal Rights Amemendment