Darnell Adams
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Darnell Adams
Meet Darnell
Darnell is a dynamic leadership coach, facilitator, and business strategist who has over two decades of experience working with nonprofit, for-profit, and cooperative businesses. She has been personally recognized in “Bold Thinkers Who Are Shaping Our City” by Boston Magazine’s Power of Ideas and as a Social Innovator by the Social Innovation Forum accelerator program.
- Developed and facilitated special projects, strategic plans, and workshops, including an array of topics, such as transformational leadership, understanding bias, and power for nonprofit, for-profit, and cooperative businesses.
- She has presented to large and small groups within industry, city and state governments, universities, and media outlets.
- Darnell has a Master of Education from Harvard University and is an International Coaching Federation Credentialed Coach.
- Appointed by Governor Healy to the Advisory Board for the Massachusetts Center of Employee Ownership.
- Board Chair of the Massachusetts Advisory Board on Employee Ownership and the Board chair of the Food Co-op Initiative, a national nonprofit organization.
Areas of Expertise
- strategic planning
- meeting and retreat design
- facilitation
- leadership coaching
Articles
- Featured in: Building a Pro-Black World: Moving Beyond DE&I Work and Creating Spaces for Black People to Thrive (Suarez, Cyndi, 2023, John Wiley & Sons)
- What If We Owned It? (Spring 2022, NPQ Magazine)
- For Food Co-ops, the Future is Now (June 2020, NonProfitQuarterly.org)
