Turn Change Into Your Competitive Advantage

Organizations that thrive through uncertainty build resilience at every level. Adam provides leaders with the frameworks to adapt faster, strengthen culture, and perform under pressure.

Resilience is often described as “bouncing back,” but what if, instead of simply returning to baseline, you could rise stronger because of what you’ve faced? Becoming change-proof means building the capacity not merely to survive change, but to grow through it.

Drawing from research and real-world experience, Adam shares practical insights on balance, recovery, mindset, and building cultures that perform under pressure. Change Proof shows you how to choose change before it chooses you and turn uncertainty into fuel for individual and team growth.

Praise for Change Proof

"Adam Markel’s Change Proof is an important read for leaders building resilient teams.
“It tackles complicated topics with simplicity and exceptional storytelling.”
Brian Halligan
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of HubSpot
"Adam has done it again with Change Proof.
Resilience, real-life solutions to chaos, and practical ways you can use them to learn and lead in your organization.”
Garry Ridge
Chairman & CEO,WD-40 Company
"Thinking about change often brings up in us rolling panic and a sickening fear of the unknown.
Adam Markel turns that on its head with Change Proof, offering leaders an opportunity to confidently adapt to, and even pursue, change.Take the opportunity to build resiliency in yourself, your relationships and your business – a must-read!"
Marshall Goldsmith
New York Times #1 Bestselling Author,
Thinkers 50 #1 Executive Coach &
only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the world
"If this book was a movie it would feel like Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Get ready for a wild ride. The first book on change to invite readers to be emotionally engulfed in dramatic uncertainty, and then rationally receive the tools to effectively deal with it."
Chip R. Bell
Author of Inside Your Customer’s Imagination
"Adam Markel’s Change Proof is like talking with your best friend through your toughest times...
... and getting life-changing advice you will share with someone else in need someday. I highly recommend reading this book!"
Lisa Garr
Host of The Aware Show

By Resilience Expert Adam Markel

Adam Markel, JD, is the #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of Pivot and Change Proof. His latest book, Re-Culture, explores how leaders can build the conditions for people and organizations to thrive amid constant change. A resilience researcher, organizational strategist, keynote and TEDx speaker, Adam is the Co-Founder and Chief Researcher at WORKWELL, a research and advisory firm focused on workplace resilience, culture and sustainable performance.

Adam’s work is rooted in firsthand experience leading through pressure, disruption, and reinvention. After building a multimillion-dollar law firm, he went on to lead one of the world’s largest business and personal development training companies. Today, he draws on more than two decades of executive leadership and organizational experience, along with workplace resilience data from more than 27,000 participants, to help leaders and teams adapt under pressure, strengthen culture and sustain performance. Integrating neuroscience, behavioral science, and organizational psychology, Adam translates research into practical strategies that build clarity, trust, adaptability and lasting momentum.

Every Great Success Story Starts With Resilience

Resilience is not a soft skill. It directly affects your bottom line, both personally and professionally. Cultivating your resilience is a skill in business and life that is truly game-changing.

Changes often leave people feeling afraid, uncertain, stuck, and even paralyzed from taking the action they need to take. Yet it also presents opportunities for self-reflection, self-care, and attention to relationships — as well as new ways of doing business, generating revenue, and building stronger teams. To do this, we need to embrace the Change Proof model.

Change Proof teaches a three-part model that you can learn to become “change proof” and turn uncertainty and chaos to your own clear advantage, every time.
Take The Assessment

Praise for Change Proof

“Adam Markel’s Change Proof tackles complicated topics with simplicity and exceptional storytelling. It’s an important read for leaders building resilient teams.”
Brian Halligan
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of HubSpot

Praise for Change Proof

“Adam has done it again with Change Proof. Resilience, real-life solutions to chaos, and practical ways you can use them to learn and lead in your organization.”
Garry Ridge
Chairman & CEO,WD-40 Company

Praise for Change Proof

“Thinking about change often brings up in us rolling panic and a sickening fear of the unknown. Adam Markel turns that on its head with Change Proof, offering leaders an opportunity to confidently adapt to, and even pursue, change.

Take the opportunity to build resiliency in yourself, your relationships and your business – a must-read! “
Marshall Goldsmith
New York Times #1 Bestselling Author,
Thinkers 50 #1 Executive Coach &
only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the world

Praise for Change Proof

​​“The first book on change to invite readers to be emotionally engulfed in dramatic uncertainty, and then rationally receive the tools to effectively deal with it. If this book was a movie it would feel like Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Get ready for a wild ride.”
Chip R. Bell
Author of Inside Your Customer’s Imagination

Praise for Change Proof

“Adam Markel’s Change Proof is like talking with your best friend through your toughest times and getting life-changing advice you will share with someone else in need someday.

I highly recommend reading this book!”
Lisa Garr
Host of The Aware Show

Resilience is not a soft skill.

It directly affects your bottom line.
Take the free Rank My Resilience assessment to determine if you are as resilient as you could be.
How Resilient Are You?

Becoming Change Proof Will Help You…

Perform at Your Best

Resilience is the unsung hero of high performance and the key to long-term success.

Build Stronger Relationships & Teams

A highly-tuned culture of resilience can be your most powerful competitive edge.

Generate More Revenue

Resilient companies outperform their competitors. They are more innovative, more agile, more enduring and most importantly, they are the ones that thrive in the long-term.

Adam Markel’s Resilience Keynote Speaker Clips

See Adam in Action

Press Inquiries & Contact Information

For press and publicity inquiries regarding Change Proof, please visit our online press kit.
Visit Press Kit
Adam’s talk about leadership & resilience provided a great foundation for the conference, inspiring attendees to engage in an interactive learning experience. His high energy presentation was insightful, relevant and reinforced our key goals.
Adam’s talk about leadership & resilience provided a great foundation for the conference, inspiring attendees to engage in an interactive learning experience. His high energy presentation was insightful, relevant and reinforced our key goals.
Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-term Resilience
Learn how to thrive on uncertainty instead of merely managing it―from the resiliency expert and author of PIVOT
In his #1 bestselling guide to resilience, Pivot, business and personal development expert Adam Markel showed how building resilience can supercharge your life and career. Now, in Change Proof, he shows how you can move beyond managing change to actively embracing it―and actually using times of uncertainty, ... read more
Learn More
Button Text

Is Adam Right For Your Team?

These are the answers you are looking for. For anything else, please book a time to connect with Adam directly.