Carly Adamson is a registered psychologist and organisational performance specialist with more than 25 years' consulting experience across leadership development, behavioural change, executive coaching, team effectiveness and culture transformation. She has worked directly with more than 15,000 leaders across some 4,500 teams.
Her work focuses on the behavioural conditions that shape performance under pressure: how leaders and teams think, decide, adapt, collaborate and speak up when complexity increases, perspectives differ and the stakes are high. She is recognised for her expertise in psychological safety and speak-up culture.
She has partnered with senior leaders, executive teams and frontline operations across mining, resources, infrastructure, transport, retail, government, professional services and global institutions, including BHP, Aurizon, Sime Darby, Powerlink Queensland, Mater Foundation and the United Nations.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Executive education and global programs
Coach and lecturer with London Business School in London and Dubai, working with Executive MBA and Masters in Finance students. Partnered with the Global Head of Ethics at UNFPA on a multilingual program building trust, speaking up and ethical leadership across more than 4,000 people in over 150 countries.
Enterprise-wide psychological safety
Architected and led a two-year, enterprise-wide psychological safety program at Powerlink Queensland, across more than 1,500 employees and 130 teams, with more than 300 leaders developed and a peer network of more than 150 people. Winner of the 2024 Queensland Mental Health Week Achievement Award for Workplace Employee Wellbeing, and a 2025 AFR Energy Awards finalist.
Complex delivery and behavioural assessment
Behavioural assessment and alliance support on major transport and infrastructure programs, including current owner-side work in the lead-up to Brisbane 2032.
She will ask the question everyone has been politely stepping around, and make it easier to answer than you might expect.
