Wes Adams
Biography
Wes Adams is founder and CEO of SV Consulting Group, where he works with high-performing companies to develop leadership excellence, build organizational resilience, and deepen employee engagement through a meaningful work lens. He brings more than two decades of experience as a successful entrepreneur and strategic partner for Fortune 500s, startups, and NGOs.
Prior to founding SV, Wes advised brands such as Google, Audi, Starbucks, and the United Nations at Purpose, the world’s leading social impact agency. As COO of the company's incubator arm, he also launched All Out, a tech-focused, global advocacy organization, which is now the world’s largest community of people fighting for LGBTQ+ equality.
Wes trained as a facilitator for the Penn Resilience Program, the world’s leading provider of evidence-based resilience skills for business, healthcare, government, and law enforcement. He has been a featured speaker at conferences including South by Southwest Interactive and the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. His work has been covered by the New York Times, BBC News, Forbes, Business Insider, and others.
For more than a decade, Wes has been leading and advising hybrid teams. In addition to being an expert on meaningful work, resilience, and leadership, Wes is passionate about social impact. He helped produce a documentary for HBO, The Out List, and a book highlighting leaders in sustainability space, I Am EcoWarrior. Wes is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and holds a Master’s from University of Pennsylvania in Applied Positive Psychology.
His first book, co-authored with Tamara Myles, is forthcoming from PublicAffairs in 2025.