Dr. Ed Adams earned his Doctor of Psychology degree from Rutgers University. He is a licensed psychologist and Founder of Men Mentoring Men (M3), a not-for-profit organization supporting men in their quest to live happier lives. Now in its 30th year, M3 has touched hundreds of lives by creating a shame-free space for men to discuss, challenge, support, and journey through the complexities of life. Currently, Ed is in private practice in Somerville and Lambertville, New Jersey specializing in the treatment of men.

In 2013, The Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinities Division 51 of APA awarded Ed the Practitioner of the Year Award. In 2018, Ed served as President of Division 51and has helped strengthen the Division to become a stronger voice by highlighting the research, treatment guidelines, and applied psychological skills that help men thrive. Ed’s major presidential initiative was to encourage men and women to recognize compassion and self-compassion as masculine traits.

Ed is also an accomplished painter and sculptor. He was commissioned to create a bust of Oscar Schindler that was presented to Steven Spielberg and a 13’ bronze sculpture that honors Raoul Wallenberg. His paintings are in private collections, universities, corporate collections, and museums. In 2017, Ed published a book, Becoming A Happier Man: A Man’s Guide to Living a Full and Meaningful Life. This book couples his paintings with the essential ingredients present when a man declares himself as … HAPPY.

Reinventing Masculinity: the Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection (2020) is co-authored with Ed Frauenheim. The authors provide men and women with a practical and updated vision of masculinity designed to cope with the complexities of the 21st Century.

"Put the right letters together and make a better day.”

I quoted that Prince lyric in my college senior yearbook in 1989, and it describes what I’ve been trying to do for nearly three decades as a journalist, researcher, speaker and book author.

My main topics are masculinity and workplace culture, as well as the intersection between the two.

Most recently, I published Reinventing Masculinity: The Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection. My co-author Dr. Ed Adams and I explore the hopeful shift under way from an outdated, unhealthy and “confined” masculinity to a "liberating" one that frees men and those around them to live fuller lives at home, at play, at work and in the world.

I have co-authored three other books.

A Great Place to Work For All, published in 2018, shows that today’s leaders have to meet a higher standard: they have to create a great workplace culture for everyone, no matter who they are or what they do for the organization.

I also co-authored Organized Innovation: A Blueprint for Renewing America's Prosperity, published in 2014. It argues that America's approach to technology development in recent decades has been disorganized to a fault, and that a new, more coordinated method is needed.

In 2011, I co-authored Good Company: Business Success in the Worthiness Era. It documents the evolution of corporate social responsibility, making the case that companies increasingly must prove themselves worthy of their employees, customers and investors.

I currently serve as senior director of content at research and advisory firm Great Place to Work. I also co-founded the Teal Team, a group aiming to help organizations evolve into more democratic, purpose-driven, soulful places.

Earlier in my career, I spent roughly 20 years as a journalist, with stints at technology media firm CNET Networks, the Oakland Tribune chain of newspapers and Workforce magazine. I also have worked as a freelance writer for publications including Wired magazine, Salon.com and The Dallas Morning News.

I've made more than 75 speaking appearances to live and online audiences. I also have organized and hosted events.

I serve as a board member of the Berrett-Koehler Authors organization and as a board member of Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

I live in San Francisco with my teenage son and daughter and artist wife Rowena Richie. In my spare time you can find me doing Qi Gong with Rowena, dancing to Daft Punk and playing disc golf with a good friend.