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Adi Jaffe
Adi Jaffe helps leaders turn emotional challenges into growth, building resilient cultures through science, honesty, and practical tools.
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Why you should book Adi Jaffe for your next event
- Delivers actionable, science-backed tools to turn emotional crises into cultural and performance breakthroughs.
- Reframes mental health and addiction as leadership strengths, enabling more empathetic, empowered workplaces.
- Founder of IGNTD, a global platform redefining how companies approach emotional and behavioral health.
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Transforming mental health into leadership and performance strength
Adi Jaffe is a UCLA-trained psychologist, bestselling author, and TEDx speaker who brings a fresh, honest perspective to mental health, leadership, and performance. His keynotes go beyond awareness, giving leaders and teams practical tools to navigate pressure, change, and uncertainty with clarity and confidence. With a unique ability to combine science, storytelling, and real-life experience, Adi Jaffe helps organizations shift how they understand emotional and behavioral challenges. The result is stronger cultures, better communication, and teams that perform at a higher level.
Adi Jaffe – Rethinking Behavior Change
Dr. Adi Jaffe is a PhD psychologist and behavioral neuroscientist who has built his career around one central idea: lasting change requires a new way of thinking. Rather than relying on rigid systems or outdated assumptions, Adi introduces a flexible, science-based approach to transforming habits and improving performance. His work focuses on helping individuals and organizations understand why they do what they do and how to change it effectively.
As a TEDx speaker and bestselling author of The Abstinence Myth and Unhooked, Adi has reached a global audience with his message. His approach challenges traditional models and replaces them with practical strategies rooted in research and real-life application. This combination makes his keynotes both engaging and highly relevant.
Book Adi Jaffe for Your Event
When you book Adi Jaffe, you bring in a speaker who understands the complexities of human behavior in high-pressure environments. He works closely with executives and institutions, helping them identify the habits and systems that limit growth and performance. His presentations are tailored to the audience, ensuring that every session delivers value that can be applied immediately.
Adi’s ability to translate complex neuroscience into simple, actionable insights makes him a strong fit for leadership events, corporate conferences, and organizational development programs. He speaks with clarity and energy, keeping audiences engaged while delivering meaningful takeaways.
Science-Based Strategies That Work
Adi’s expertise is grounded in years of research and practical experience. As a behavioral neuroscientist, he explores how habits are formed, why they persist, and what it takes to change them. His work goes beyond theory, he provides concrete tools that help people take control of their behavior and create sustainable results.
Audiences gain a deeper understanding of:
- How habits are built and reinforced
- Why traditional approaches to change often fail
- What it takes to create lasting transformation
- How to maintain high performance over time
This focus on practical application ensures that participants leave with more than inspiration, they leave with a plan.
From Challenges to Sustained Performance
A key theme in Adi’s work is overcoming challenges and turning them into opportunities for growth. He addresses the barriers that often hold individuals and organizations back, offering strategies to move forward with clarity and confidence. His perspective is especially valuable in environments where performance, adaptability, and resilience are critical.
By shifting the way people think about setbacks and progress, Adi helps audiences build a more sustainable path to success. His approach encourages continuous improvement rather than short-term fixes, making it highly relevant in today’s fast-changing world.
Trusted Voice in Media and Leadership Circles
Adi Jaffe’s insights have been featured on CNN, Forbes, NBC, and Psychology Today, reflecting the broad relevance of his work. He is a trusted advisor to executives and institutions looking to modernize their approach to behavior, performance, and growth.
His ability to connect research with real-world challenges has made him a sought-after speaker across industries. Whether addressing leadership teams or large audiences, Adi delivers content that is both insightful and actionable.
A Speaker Who Drives Real Change
Adi Jaffe stands out as a speaker who doesn’t just inform, he drives change. His presentations challenge assumptions, inspire new ways of thinking, and equip audiences with the tools they need to move forward. With a strong foundation in science and a clear focus on results, he helps organizations unlock their full potential.
Booking Adi means investing in a keynote that goes beyond motivation. It’s an opportunity to create meaningful, lasting impact, both for individuals and for the organization as a whole.
Customer Reviews
5 of 5
Adi is a highly intelligent, perceptive researcher in the area of quantitative psychology and drug addiction. He has a very broad and solid background in statistics, psychology and neuroscience. He has incredible creative energies to accomplish what needs to be done in his research. In his work, Adi is consistent, dedicated and passionate, enthusiastic, cheerful, and a pleasure to work with.
Xinming AnResearch Statistician Developer at SAS
5 of 5
Adi's determination and persistency shines through his work. He is incredibly creative and helped me to recognize my strengths in my own work. Adi's belief in himself and his path encourages others to exude this same passion and dedication. Anyone that should work with Adi will have a great asset to their team!
Sophie JaffeInfluencer at Neon Rose + Founder of Philosophie Superfoods
5 of 5
I've had the opportunity to work with Adi on numerous collaborative writing opportunities, and have found him to be responsive, an expert in his research, and able to defend his opinions and research with integrity. I look forward to continuing our work together in this field for the foreseeable future.
Mike F.Healthcare and Sales Leadership
Rated 5.00/5 based on 3 customer reviews
Keynotes
Keynote by Adi Jaffe:
Unhooked Leadership
How Anyone Can Break Invisible Patterns And Achieve Unstoppable Results
We all struggle with bad habits that get in our way - at work, these often prevent us from doing our best. In this keynote, Dr. Jaffe reveals why intelligence, experience, and good intentions aren’t enough to control our behavior consistently. Drawing from neuroscience and real-world experience in boardrooms, management meetings, and executive work, he teaches you how hidden internal loops, formed early and reinforced daily, drive avoidance, overcontrol, burnout, and decision paralysis.
Leaders leave with a practical framework for recognizing and disrupting these patterns in themselves and their teams, so they can operate with clarity, intention, and full control.
Key takeaways:
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Replace avoidance and overcontrol with clarity and ownership
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Learn a repeatable framework to interrupt reactive decision-making
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Leaders identify the hidden behavioral loop that most limits their effectiveness right now.
Keynote by Adi Jaffe:
From Struggle to Success
Turning Breakdowns to Breakthroughs
Based on his popular TEDx talk, Adi's session allows everyone to rethink what is possible in their future and how to get more out of life… right now. When we learn to turn our struggles into opportunities for learning and growth, we shift our thinking and transform our lives. Using both personal experience and decades of research, Dr. Jaffe helps his audiences get excited about the changes they’re facing, transforming their most difficult struggles into their most lasting victories!
Your audience will learn…
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Neuroscientific insights into the power of struggle labels & stories we all carry.
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A clear understanding of a path for breaking through label-based limits and towards a winning mental attitude.
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A clear set of tools to maximize future growth and avoid settling, EVEN through crises and times of instability and change!
Keynote by Adi Jaffe:
The Myth of The Unshakable Leader
How Leaders Improve Retention, and Create Lasting Performance, by Building Unbreakable Habits
Drawing from behavioral science and real-world leadership work, this workshop reveals why the pursuit of “unshakability” often leads to burnout, emotional shutdown, and poor decision-making. Learn how doubt, discomfort, and disruption, when used skillfully, become the very mechanisms that build sustainable confidence and resilience.
Leaders leave with a new definition of confidence, practical tools for navigating pressure, and a framework for leading effectively without pretending they’re unaffected.
Key Takeaways…
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Reduce burnout without lowering standards or expectations
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Lead through disruption without losing clarity, credibility, or connection
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Leaders leave with specific tools for creating a culture of high-level performance without breaking
Keynote by Adi Jaffe:
The Leadership Tax
Preventing the Hidden Cost of Avoidance, Politeness, and Delayed Decisions
What quietly drains performance in many organizations isn’t strategy, it’s avoidance. In this keynote, Dr. Adi Jaffe introduces “The Leadership Tax,” the hidden cost leaders pay when tough conversations are delayed, decisions softened, and clarity lost in the name of being polite.
With insights from psychology and behavioral neuroscience, Adi shows why even strong leaders fall into patterns of hesitation. While these behaviors may feel easier in the moment, they often lead to confusion, slower progress, and reduced accountability across teams.
Adi provides a clear framework to identify where this hidden tax appears and how to remove it. He breaks down the internal drivers behind avoidance and offers practical tools to communicate more directly, make faster decisions, and lead with confidence.
Attendees will gain:
- Insight into the patterns that drive avoidance and delay
- Tools to handle difficult conversations early and effectively
- Strategies for clearer communication and stronger accountability
This keynote equips leaders to reduce friction, strengthen trust, and create a culture where decisions and progress move forward with clarity.
Keynote by Adi Jaffe:
Leading Through Change
Performance Culture – Human-Centered Leadership
Change is constant, but leading people through it effectively is where many organizations struggle. In this keynote, Dr. Adi Jaffe explores how to build a performance culture that puts people at the center, without losing focus on results.
Combining psychology and neuroscience, Adi explains why change often creates resistance, uncertainty, and disengagement. He shows how traditional top-down approaches can fall short, and what leaders can do instead to create alignment, trust, and momentum.
This keynote provides practical tools to help leaders navigate change with clarity and confidence. Adi focuses on how to communicate more effectively, support teams through uncertainty, and create an environment where people stay motivated and accountable, even during transitions.
Attendees will gain:
- Insight into how people respond to change and uncertainty
- Tools to lead with clarity, empathy, and direction
- Strategies to build a culture that supports both people and performance
This session equips leaders to turn change into an opportunity for growth, creating stronger teams, clearer direction, and more sustainable results.
"Unhooked" Author Adi Jaffe Shares Tips for Breaking Bad Habits
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Blog posts by Adi Jaffe
Why Leadership Training Fails… And How to Fix It
Companies spend over $100 billion a year on leadership development. And most of it doesn't work. That's not a hot take, it's what the data says. A McKinsey study found that only 11 percent of executives believe their leadership development programs achieve and sustain the desired results. Seve
Books by Adi Jaffe
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The Abstinence MythBy Adi Jaffe -
Unhooked: Free Yourself from Addiction ForeverBy Adi Jaffe
