Smiley helps companies attract, retain, and engage their employees. He is one of the top millennial workplace experts in the world, and has spoken at hundreds of events, in over 15 countries, reaching more than 50,000 people. 

Smiley helps organizations: 

Increase employee engagement

Empower millennials in the workplace

Understand generational differences

Improve multigenerational collaboration and leadership

Innovate HR and talent operations

Build a purpose-driven workplace

In Smiley's keynote presenations, participants will learn: 

Proven strategies to engage employees of all ages, as well as how to attract, retain, and empower top talent.

The similarities and differences between what Gen-Z, Millennials, Gen-X, and Baby Boomers want in the workplace, and ways to foster intergenerational collaboration.

Tangible HR management tools, technologies, and examples for creating a purpose-driven workplace that participants can implement in their own teams.

Insights on the future of work, building an inclusive company culture, and creating a community of mentorship and learning.

Adam Smiley Poswolsky is a millennial workplace expert, 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 has inspired thousands of professionals to be more engaged at work, through speaking at companies like Unilever, IDEO, Salesforce, Genentech, Deloitte, SAP, Pinterest, MailChimp, and TED. An internationally renowned motivational speaker, Smiley speaks about millennials, employee engagement, and intergenerational collaboration at Fortune 500 companies, business conferences, leadership trainings, and universities. 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, USA Today, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, CNN, and the World Economic Forum, among many others. He is on the faculty at Esalen Institute and General Assembly, a mentor for StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation, and a camp counselor at Camp Grounded: Summer Camp for Adults.

Previously, Smiley worked as special assistant to the director of global operations at the U.S. Peace Corps in Washington, D.C.

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 POC speakers are paid competitively as compared to their colleagues. The group now has over 2,000 members.

Smiley is a proud graduate of Wesleyan University, and can usually be found dancing in Oakland, California.