About Us

Dr. David Adams

Dr. David E. Adams is the president and CEO of Adams Strategy Group, a specialized consultancy that embeds positive culture using strategic leadership. The Group targets the transformation of leadership approaches, improvement management, and strategy management.

Dr. Adams’ expertise lies in embedding positive culture through transformational and positive leadership approaches, human and operations systems balance, operational excellence systems
and strategies, and executive coaching.

For the past fifteen years, Dr. Adams has focused his work on hospitals and healthcare systems where he has helped clinicians and systems reduce medical errors, a leading cause of death in the United States.

  • Doctorate in Strategic Leadership
  • Masters in Operational Excellence
  • Retired Naval Officer
  • Style: Architect-Coach
  • Theory-to-practice: Skilled in adapting to context and environment
  • Player-coach: coaching from experience and lots of mistakes
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Our Origin Story

Building Sustainable Change

In 2014, David and Roberta Adams started Adams Strategy Group, a management consultancy that specializes in a unique transformational operational excellence strategy. Together, they design the architecture and execution support for sustainable change in process and culture.

Rallying around our vision – “radical success for the client” – our team brings thought leadership from academia and operational experiences from a variety of industries including defense, healthcare, manufacturing, non-profit management and insurance services.

Our distinctive model – Transformational Operational Excellence – drives change using a clear roadmap for enterprise excellence: change leadership, organization, leadership development, management systems and team work for your continuous improvement culture.

“Adams Strategy Group's management system was an answer to 25 years of frustration. We achieved sustained improvement.”

– Kim Hollon,
Retired, Signature Healthcare CEO

“Adams Strategy Group's method allowed us to take our safety culture to the next level. We have improved processes that reduce patient and employee injury."

– Amber Egyud,
Chief Operation & Nursing Officer, Chesapeake Regional Healthcare

“As far as personality and dedication, Adams Strategy Group is way ahead of their competitors.”

– Luke Poppish,
Vice President, Operational Excellence, South Shore Health System

“Adams Strategy Group keeps it real. It is easy to understand how I can apply this information to my actual job.”

– Kate Mercier,
Chief Operation Officer, Norwell Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice

“Adams Strategy Group's biggest strength is their ability to connect with their clients. They are fully committed to whatever organization they are engaged with. This is noticeable and goes above what is written in the contract.”

– Luke O’Connell,
Chief Clinical Officer at South Shore Health System

“Adams Strategy Group is more affordable, more thoughtful, and provocative in a non-threatening way. They will ask the hard questions without you feeling like they're coming at you.”

– Timothy Lynch, MD,
Vice President of Quality at Signature Health System
(when working with ASG)

How it Feels When We Work With You

Architect & Builder

COLLABORATING & CONSULTING

The architect – with his knowledge and experience – has a style that the builder admires. The architect makes graceful adaptations that preserve the building’s beauty and function. The building, however, is distinctly the builder’s.

Coach & Team

TEACHING & COACHING

The coach is invested in the team’s success and the team respects the coach’s experiences and methods. There is often friction between the two as development and growth happens, but they continue to work and learn together.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Core Values Drive Change

We connect with courageous leaders and their teams to make transformation through strategy development, design, teaching, coaching, and when called upon, direct facilitation of team problem solving or process improvement. Our core values shape the way we work. We believe that your culture’s daily experience should not only reflect your core values but should exercise them every moment of every day. Exercising values is what drives change.

OUR VALUES

Our Vision for Your Future

Radical change requires courageous leaders who drive a culture of problem-solving throughout your organization. We have done it for many hospitals and companies as they have embraced and run with their own solutions built on our roadmap of focused engagement. The results are simple: radical success in safety, customer satisfaction, performance and profit.