Organizations that grow
stronger because of
what they go through.
Co-founded with Dr. Nick Holton. The Antifragile Academy builds performance and resilience systems for organizations where high performance under adversity is the work, not a secondary concern.
Programs span three domains: Corporate & Startup, Sport & Performance, and Educators. The framework is consistent across all of them. The application is built for each context.
Clients include the Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Union, and professional sport organizations across MLB, NFL, NBA, and Olympic programs.
The distinction between resilience and antifragility is the spine of the work. Resilience returns you to baseline. Antifragility produces a system that emerges from adversity with greater capacity than it entered with. That distinction is not semantic. It changes what you build, how you train, and what you measure.
Organizational Consulting
Assessing and redesigning the human systems that determine performance at scale, leadership culture, team dynamics, psychological safety, decision-making under uncertainty, and the structural conditions that either support or undermine sustained high performance. We work with professional sports organizations, executive leadership teams, surgical departments, and tactical units.
Executive Coaching at Scale
When the individual work needs to happen across an organization, leadership teams working from the same framework, with the same integrated approach to physiology, cognition, and the patterns beneath both. Not a workshop. Sustained, substantive work that builds capacity across a leadership tier, not just at the top.
We are also developing technology to deliver this framework at scale, a coaching application in development that extends the work beyond the room and into the environments where performance actually happens.
Speaking & Workshops
Keynotes and intensive workshops for organizations on antifragility, performance under pressure, leadership resilience, and the human dimensions of high-consequence environments. These are substantive engagements with the research and the practical framework, not motivational talks. Built from the work developed through the Academy and tested in the field.
The Neuroscience of Choking
What actually happens neurologically when performance breaks down at critical moments, and why mental toughness is the wrong diagnostic frame.
Antifragility in High-Performance Environments
The difference between resilience and antifragility, and why organizations training only for the former are leaving capability undeveloped.
Leadership Under Pressure
What separates leaders who stay clear in volatile conditions. The physiological, cognitive, and depth-level work that makes the difference.
Fear, Identity & Sustainable Excellence
Why high performers burn out, and what distinguishes those who sustain excellence across careers. The answer involves the structure of identity.
The Unconscious in Performance
How patterns formed below conscious awareness shape execution and decision-making, and what it takes to work with them rather than be perpetually run by them.
Professional sports organizations building cultures where adversity is developmental, not just managed.
Corporate leadership teams navigating sustained uncertainty, organizational change, and the performance demands of operating at the top of competitive markets.
Medical institutions and surgical teams where cognitive performance and emotional regulation under pressure directly affect patient outcomes.
Law enforcement, military, and tactical organizations where individual performance and team function have direct operational consequences.
Co-Founders
Adam Wright, Ph.D.
Performance consultant, clinician, and educator. Director of Mental Performance, Washington Nationals.
Nick Holton, Ph.D.
Researcher and international speaker. Co-host of Flourish FM with Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program.
Every engagement begins with a scoping conversation.
Organizational engagements begin with a scoping conversation, what you're dealing with, what you've already tried, and whether the framework is the right fit for the context. Scope, structure, and investment are determined through that conversation, not before it.
For organizational consulting, executive coaching at scale, or speaking engagements through The Antifragile Academy, reach out below or visit the Academy directly.