Adam Lerner

Founder, Knowledges Lead, Designer & Facilitator at Solvable
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Adam was a highly detail-oriented and motivated gift officer who consistently exceeded his goals. He spearheaded many new and innovative projects for the Fund, opening new territories and approaching new prospects with skill and class. I very much enjoyed working with him and watching his innovative style.

Rudy Buttignol, C.M.

Adam demonstrates clear analytical thinking combined with sharp strategic insights. He's a engaging individual with a proven ability to articulate brand stories for marketing plans. And he is a pleasure to work with indivualkly and as part of a team.

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Credentials

  • Climate Change Coaching Training
    Climate Change Coaches
    Jul, 2020
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

  • Solvable
    • India
    • Media Production
    • Founder, Knowledges Lead, Designer & Facilitator
      • Jun 2011 - Present

      As Knowledges Lead, my role is to invite diverse knowledges in the spaces that we design and facilitate, both with external voices to join our cohorts and internal voices that share different ontologies and epistemologies based on situated knowledges. Solvable partners with organizations and collectives who have made bold commitments to move beyond sustainability-as-usual and transition towards a multicapitalist approach to impact leadership. Currently, we focus on two-types of engagements: • Three Horizons: We design and facilitate workshops for sustainability and innovation teams inside organizations looking to expand beyond the near term and explore edges of possibilities. • Transition Accelerators: We guide intensive learning journeys that expand participants’ ways of knowing and being to accelerate the transition of organizations and broader systems. For more about our work, please see https://www.solvable.ca/engagements Show less

  • Edge Finance Accelerator
    • Think Tanks
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co-Designer & Host
      • Sep 2023 - Present

      For the past few years, I've been considering how to work with others to disturb the field of social and impact finance as usual. In partnership with EROS Futures, the Solvable team has designed a learning journey for a highly-selective group of investors and philanthropists who seek to redesign investing for regenerative and equitable futures. As part of the five-person hosting team, I will be co-facilitating the Accelerator in collaboration with a sage group of wisdom keepers from across Turtle Island. Enrollment is open through October 6th with the journey beginning in January 2024. If you're interested in learning more, please don't hesitate to reach out. Show less

  • Wolf Willow Institute
    • Canada
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Positive Deviants Fellow
      • Oct 2022 - Jul 2023

      I was honoured to be in the second cohort of Positive Deviant Fellows. Over this nine-month fellowship, I journeying with an incredible group of 16 other social entrepreneurs to challenge ourselves and systems. Our core work was to: • Expand our perspective and see the ‘invisible’ • Cultivate intimacy, collaborativity, and connection with the human and more than human worlds • Cultivate greater fluency with the principles and practices of a complexity lens • Hone our capacity for courageous and skillful action • Cultivate greater self-awareness & centered presence Show less

  • The Understory
    • United States
    • Movies, Videos, and Sound
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Writer
      • Jun 2020 - Feb 2022

      The Understory inspires leaders to act on the courage of their convictions in defense of the living planet and those who inhabit it. The publication shares critical thinking about the natural world and the growing climate emergency 🔥🌏. Much like the forest understory where trees, shrubs, vines, mosses, and fungi live under shade of the forest canopy, each issue celebrates stories that thrive in the shadows rather than the limelight of the news cycle. The publication provides habitat for climate storytelling by connecting the letters, notes, essays, books, and speeches from great minds in management science, philosophy, literature, sociology, psychology, and the natural sciences with our present moment and desired future. Subscribe to receive free monthly issues in your inbox https://theunderstory.substack.com Show less

  • Now What
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • Co-Founder
      • Oct 2019 - Feb 2020

      Now What is a series of memorable gatherings with remarkable people built around meaningful conversations. The seed of this project came from a shared realization between close friends that relationships are key to our happiness and fulfillment. Whether the deep relationships with family and close friends or the occasional conversations with acquaintances, it is the people in our lives who inspire us to continue to think bigger thoughts and challenge our own picture of reality. As our own physical realities are reshaped at an ever more accelerating pace, concern about the world that we are creating grows in turn. It’s our hope that by surrounding ourselves with people and ideas who seek alternative futures that we can fulfill a role in bringing about a different landscape of possibilities. Dinner can provide a moment of togetherness. It is a chance to operate on a different clock outside of lives set to high speed. To escape the constant barrage of distractions and engage with one another around our shared humanity. And while dinner is an ideal venue for connecting, it is all too seldom that dinner realizes its possibilities. Now What dinners are personal, relevant, and deep conversations about the urgent concerns that matter to us. Evenings spent over a shared meal with new friends outside of our typical circles. A bit of magic. Show less

  • Two by Fore Interactive
    • Canada
    • Real Estate
    • CEO
      • May 2016 - Feb 2020

      Two by Fore Interactive was a digital marketing agency for top-producing real estate professionals. Two by Fore Interactive was a digital marketing agency for top-producing real estate professionals.

  • two by fore
    • Canada
    • Real Estate
    • Co-Founder
      • Feb 2015 - May 2016

      Two by Fore was a tech start-up using a question and answer forum to build the online reputation of real estate professionals. Two by Fore was a tech start-up using a question and answer forum to build the online reputation of real estate professionals.

  • Kaldor Brand Strategy & Design
    • Director of Strategy
      • Dec 2007 - May 2011

      Led all Strategy/Brand Planning efforts for 3.5 years shaping new brands and reshaping existing ones. My specific role was to: • Lead primary research efforts (qualitative & quantitative) • Develop brand strategies: competitive/comparative analysis, unique selling points, brand architecture, brand personality, brand platform, positioning • Lead content strategies for new communication design (interactive, video, print), and • Collaborate with our design team on communications development. I was fortunate to have led brand transformations for the University of Toronto (U of T), Knowledge Network (BC's public broadcaster), the University of British Columbia (UBC), the Museum of Vancouver (MOV), McGill University, Urban Systems, Coast Capital Savings, the University of Victoria (UVic) and Couverdon, amongst others. Our work was honoured by the 15th Annual Webby Awards with 1 Nominee and 2 Official Honorees. I led a team of two Account Directors and collaborated with the Creative and Associate Creative Directors across post-secondary, not-for-profit and corporate clients. Other responsibilities included strategic planning and operational management for Kaldor, as well as generating new business proposals and pitches. Show less

  • Cause+Affect
    • Canada
    • Design Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Principal & Marketing Director
      • Jan 2007 - Nov 2007

      Worked with the Creative Director to grow the company and rebrand real estate development, green furniture, law and retail firms. Worked with the Creative Director to grow the company and rebrand real estate development, green furniture, law and retail firms.

  • M3 Design
    • United States
    • Design Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director, Marketing
      • Aug 2005 - Dec 2006

      Member of the management team leading a 65-person design firm into its next stage of growth. Expanded the company's profile nationally and internationally through new business development, marketing communications and awards that brought recognition to its consumer, high-tech, medical and enterprise product designs. Member of the management team leading a 65-person design firm into its next stage of growth. Expanded the company's profile nationally and internationally through new business development, marketing communications and awards that brought recognition to its consumer, high-tech, medical and enterprise product designs.

  • BMW Group DesignworksUSA
    • Team Captain
      • Oct 2004 - Oct 2004

      Led a project to develop, implement and analyze market research from current and potential clients to assess DesignworksUSA’s market position relative to the competition. The presentations was for the President, VP, CFO and Managing Directors at CA headquarters. Led a project to develop, implement and analyze market research from current and potential clients to assess DesignworksUSA’s market position relative to the competition. The presentations was for the President, VP, CFO and Managing Directors at CA headquarters.

    • Business Development Intern
      • May 2004 - Aug 2004

      Created and led multiple strategy presentations to senior management and the M3 Advisory Board charting a growth strategy for the company. Work included industry and competitive analysis, management tracking system to understand client and project profitability, organizational structure, internal market research and a methodology for valuing potential joint ventures and partnerships. Created and led multiple strategy presentations to senior management and the M3 Advisory Board charting a growth strategy for the company. Work included industry and competitive analysis, management tracking system to understand client and project profitability, organizational structure, internal market research and a methodology for valuing potential joint ventures and partnerships.

  • frog design
    • Design Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Digital Design Intern
      • Jan 2004 - Mar 2004

      Led competitive analysis modeling to inform frog’s redesign and positioning of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile brand and online presence Led competitive analysis modeling to inform frog’s redesign and positioning of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile brand and online presence

  • U.S. Fund for UNICEF
    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • Major Gifts Officer
      • Jun 2001 - May 2003

      Identified, targeted and solicited a portfolio of 200 high net-worth donors raising over $2M for UNICEF’s work in Asia, Africa and Central Asia. Projects included: • Created direct marketing materials using focus groups and testing with $8M+ in revenues • Spearheaded, gathered donor insight and led the development of a venture philanthropy fund for high-tech donors with initial projections of $300,000/year • Led the Major Gifts team on a database implementation Advisory Board and developed the first of its kind “best practices” manual for the current database Show less

  • Eyebeam
    • United States
    • Fine Art
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Development and Public Affairs
      • Sep 1998 - Dec 2000

      Part of the initial team of this ambitious and pioneering art & technology organization. My main responsibilities were building external relationships with new funders, advisory board members and the media. Initiatives included: • Planned an international architecture design competition for a new 10-story museum of art and technology to open in Manhattan in 2007 • Created and developed a brand identity for Eyebeam via a logo, a Web-site, marketing materials, and a trade-show booth in collaboration with graphic designers • Wrote a strategic plan for a new visual effects and animation division and formed an Advisory Council of nineteen industry leaders in the moving image arts • Managed a portfolio of corporate, foundation and individual donors raising over $2M Show less

  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
    • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Development and Corporate Sponsorship Intern
      • Jun 1998 - Aug 1998

      Joined the Guggenheim's formal internship program with my focus to increase the museum’s $250K+ corporate donors by tracking past exhibition support and planned a Belgium trip for the museum’s major donors. Joined the Guggenheim's formal internship program with my focus to increase the museum’s $250K+ corporate donors by tracking past exhibition support and planned a Belgium trip for the museum’s major donors.

Education

  • The University of Texas at Austin - The Red McCombs School of Business
    MBA, Marketing & Entrepreneurship
    2003 - 2005
  • Colorado College
    BA, History
    1994 - 1998

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