Adam Leipzig is one of the rare people who has lived fluently on both sides of the wall that separates creative vision from business reality, and spent his career teaching others how to move between them.

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As a senior executive at Walt Disney Studios, he supervised films that changed culture, among them Dead Poets Society and Good Morning Vietnam. As President of National Geographic Films, he brought March of the Penguins to the world, the highest-grossing nature documentary in history, by understanding that the most powerful stories are not made, they are recognized and released. 

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As a producer of A Plastic Ocean, the most impactful environmental documentary ever made, with more than 150 laws changed worldwide in its wake, he has seen firsthand how story becomes policy that transforms the world we live in.

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He serves as Professional Faculty at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where he teaches executives and MBA candidates how narrative shapes decisions, moves organizations, and builds trust across every level of complexity. His corporate work has taken him inside the leadership teams of some of the world's most consequential companies.

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His book Fearless Persistence: Creative Life, Creative Work, and the Ten Laws of Culturenomics, has been called "the best business book I have read in ten years" by a Fortune-level executive, and "an instant creative classic" by the literary world.

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At the intersection of storytelling, strategy, and the ethics of influence, Adam Leipzig does not choose between art and commerce, between creativity and responsibility, between human narrative and technological power. He builds the bridges between them.