About

Speaker. Podcast Host. Thought Leader.

Meet Lori

Lori is a business and nonprofit executive and inclusivity specialist with 30 years experience of living and working abroad in Central & South America, Asia and the San Francisco Bay Area. She has studied and speaks 6 languages. She holds an M.A. in Intercultural Studies and B.A.s in Sociology and Spanish. She has led large scale global efforts by leading cross-functional teams, spanning multiple countries to make sustainable social impact. Her superpower is cross-cultural competency in leadership development. She has a proven record of strategizing and implementing programs to develop leaders and scale teams by recruiting high potential talent, relationship building and mentoring in key leadership principles that achieve significant outcomes where organizations grow and teams thrive.

Lori’s Bio

Lori Adams-Brown is a combination of international speaker, business executive, podcaster and relief and development expert. She hosts the popular podcast A World of Difference, celebrating humanity’s unique differences and encouraging us all to make a difference around the world. Since growing up in international schools in Costa Rica and Venezuela, Lori has spent her career working in Indonesia, Singapore and the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked in disaster relief in the 2004 Indonesian tsunami where she consulted with the UN coordination efforts, and she has spoken to audiences in Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Malaysia, Venezuela and around the US. Lori speaks 6 languages, and brings a rare multicultural perspective into her speaking, training, coaching, and business consulting. She serves on the board of Justice Revival, and volunteers to help resettle Afghan refugees in the SF Bay Area. She loves to walk to local coffee shops in Silicon Valley where she lives with her husband Jason, their 3 urbanite teens and Singaporean rescue dog.