President
Senior Advisor & Poet Laureate
Adam Bendell is Poet Laureate and Special Advisor to Toniic, after serving for nine years as CEO. He joined Toniic from his role as Chief Innovation Officer for FTI Consulting, a publicly-listed global consulting firm, which he joined when it acquired Strategic Discovery – a company he co-founded and led as CEO. He began his career at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, moving into the position of Chief Technology Counsel – the first position of its kind at a major law firm.
Adam’s leadership is fueled by a passion for facilitating transformational change from within, which includes guiding us through edgy conversations about our relationship to wealth. He also leads some of Toniic’s collective action projects. He loves the Toniic global community because it is filled with inspiring people who choose to investigate systemic ways their resources can be better deployed in service to the world, and act accordingly.
His passport stamps include a B.A. from Cornell University, a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, and a year spent as a visiting student at the London School of Economics.