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Lori Adams-Brown is a global people and transformation executive who builds the organizations that growth depends on. For 15+ years she has led strategy, operations and talent across Asia-Pacific, Silicon Valley and post-crisis zones. As Director of Global Talent Development and Head of Global Ethics at a Fortune 100 AI hardware company, she built the talent infrastructure behind 55% headcount growth across seven global cities. Earlier, she served on the APAC senior leadership team of a global NGO in Singapore. After the Indian Ocean tsunami, she was a site director and medical relief director in Indonesia.

Today she is the founder of Brava Global Advisory, where she advises CEOs, boards and search partners on leadership, organizational effectiveness and AI-era change. She has been a Board Advisor to the Center for Creative Leadership and a Board Director at How Women Lead and is a Board Director of Justice Revival, a D.C. based human rights organization. She also hosts A World of Difference, a top 3% global podcast with listeners in 128 countries. Raised in Venezuela and Costa Rica, she speaks six languages and brings the same thing to every room: she listens first, reads unfamiliar ground fast, and moves teams forward with candor and care.

Host of A World of Difference – a top leadership podcast on difference-driven innovation
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Lori’s Bio

Lori Adams-Brown is a global people and transformation executive and the founder of Brava Global Advisory. For 15+ years she has led strategy, operations and talent for global teams: as Director of Global Talent Development at a Fortune 100 AI hardware company; as a senior strategy leader for Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore; and through disaster response operations in Indonesia. She hosts A World of Difference, a top 3% global podcast with listeners in 128 countries, and speaks 6 languages.

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Lori’s leadership was shaped in places where trust has to be earned fast: as a site director and medical relief director after the Indian Ocean tsunami, on a senior leadership team across Asia-Pacific, and inside a Fortune 100 company scaling across seven countries. Across 15+ years and living on three continents, her approach has stayed the same. She listens first, reads unfamiliar ground quickly, removes what’s in the way, and moves teams forward with candor and care.

Executive teams bring Lori in to:

  • Build cultures of trust and accountability that hold up under growth

  • Lead through complexity and change without losing their people

  • Get leaders and managers ready for AI-era work

  • Lead well across geographies, generations, and cultures

People don’t follow strategy. They follow leaders they trust.

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