About Adam

**Former Navy SEAL Officer and Entrepreneur**
Adam spent 14 years in leadership roles as a Navy SEAL where he attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander, including assignments as Platoon Commander, Operations Officer, and Executive Officer. After the Navy, he worked at executive levels in the automotive industry and finance.
While in automotive, Adam was the Business Manager for the Vice President of Engineering at General Motors, where he managed a $3.5B budget and coalesced eight Executive Directors. After that, Adam began his career in finance.
Adam is an entrepreneur who previously founded, Freedom Financial Team, focusing on providing financial peace of mind to his clients and financial literacy. Consistent with this, he is a proud member of the Association of Financial Educators, a 501(c)(3) non-profit created to help with financial literacy.
While Adam’s profession is financial planning, his passion is teaching mindset, character, and leadership. He is a proud graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Adam is happily married, and they have three wonderful children.

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Presentation Topics & Descriptions

Mindset to Action

The tactical decisions of daily life are where thought becomes action. Our mindset drives our actions, reactions, and decisions, which author the events of our lives. Dream big or think small. Bounce back with gusto or pontificate why it was not meant to be. Of significant consequence is how one’s mindset links their outlook to outcome. Adam provides raw, first-hand account of select experiences, which chronologically span his journey from childhood, Naval Academy, 14-year Navy SEAL career, family man, and businessman. He highlights challenges, influences, goals, decisions, and disappointments in his professional and personal life. Thus revealed is the maturation of his mindset as he overcomes personal obstacles to achieve the highest level of success while leading a life with meaning and purpose.

The Burden of Leadership

Adam’s vast leadership experience provides insight from middle management to executive and cuts across different spaces to include military, automotive, finance, and entrepreneurial. Critical in shaping Adam’s experiences have been working alongside and developing friendships with some of the most amazing leaders, to include Medal of Honor recipients. Through these relationships, Adam has a deep appreciation for who great leaders are, where they came from, and how they got there. Adam articulates good leaders are not born that way. They are forged through the same struggles you feel today. Great leaders are rare, but the process to become one is not. The hand you are dealt is not determinative of your station in life. Rather, how you deal with it sets your journey’s course.