Adam Bryant is senior managing director of The ExCo Group, a leadership development and executive mentoring firm. Prior to joining ExCo, Adam worked for 30 years as a journalist, including 18 years as a reporter, editor and columnist at The New York Times. He interviewed more than 500 CEOs for “Corner Office,” a series on leadership that he created in 2009. He continues to conduct leadership interviews for his LinkedIn series with CEOs, board directors, chief human resources officers, and prominent Black executives that have more than 230,000 subscribers. He also writes a monthly column for Strategy+Business magazine and is the Senior Advisor to the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership at Columbia University.
Adam is the author of four books based on the themes that have emerged from his interviews and consulting work. His new book is The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership, published by Harvard Business Review Press. His most recent book for HBR was The CEO Test: Master the Challenges that Make or Break All Leaders.
His first book, The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed, was a New York Times bestseller, drawing on insights from CEOs to identify the qualities that help explain why certain executives are promoted over others to become CEOs. In his second book, Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation, Adam distilled the wisdom of hundreds of business leaders to identify the secrets to a high-performing corporate culture.