Stanley Roberts talks to Dr. Adrian McIntyre a cultural anthropologist, media personality, keynote speaker, and executive storytelling coach. His on-air broadcasting experience began at the age of five as a co-host of “The Happy Day Express,” the longest-running Children’s radio program in California history. He has lived and worked in over 30 countries, given hundreds of live media interviews, delivered over 1500 stage presentations, and written two speeches that were presented to members of the United Nations Security Council. Adrian spent much of his 20s and early 30s working in the Middle East and Africa as a researcher, journalist, communication strategist, and media spokesperson. He reported for Newsweek during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, then worked in Baghdad as a member of the crisis response teams for Mercy Corps and Oxfam. When extreme violence forced international aid agencies to withdraw their staff from Iraq, Adrian moved to Sudan to work as a media officer and policy adviser for Oxfam, one of the largest humanitarian relief agencies in the world. For 14 months, he was Oxfam’s primary, field-based spokesperson on the crisis in Darfur, helping to make that conflict the biggest news story of 2004. His hundreds of media appearances reached millions of people via major news outlets such as the BBC, CNN, National Public Radio, FOX News Online, and the New York Times, as well as regional newspapers and radio stations throughout North America and Europe.

As an academic, Adrian studied and collaborated with leading thinkers in philosophy, linguistics, social science, and international affairs. He earned an MA in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Fulbright scholar and National Science Foundation research fellow. He remained at Berkeley as an adjunct professor until 2012, when he left academia to teach and train in the private sector and online.

Adrian’s expertise in storytelling, cross-cultural communication, and leadership development has made him an in-demand speaker, trainer, executive coach, and organizational consultant. He delivers engaging keynote speeches and full-day workshops on effective communication and building a “culture of story” at work. He also trains entrepreneurs, executives, and corporate teams in his proprietary Story Profit System, which harnesses the power of personal storytelling, digital marketing, and media to boost their visibility, broadcast their thought leadership, and build an unforgettable personal brand.