Emotional Intelligence for High-Performance Cultures

Abi Adamson

Recording: YesLanguage: EnglishDuration: 45 min / 15 minSpeaker rating: 4.6 out of 5 from 60 participants across all their sessions
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Emotional Intelligence for High-Performance Cultures
Abi Adamson
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Abi Adamson

Abi Adamson, Founder of The Culture Partnership, is a pioneering voice in workplace culture transformation, recognized by The New York Times as one of the "Stars of LinkedIn." She has designed and implemented cultural strategies for global industry leaders, including Spotify, Sony Music, SoHo House, and Wise, focusing on creating environments where belonging thrives. A sought-after consultant with demonstrable impact, Abi regularly contributes insights to prominent publications including The Metro, Raconteur, People Management, and HR Zone. She will deliver her first TEDx talk "Who Owns Culture" in November 2025 and release her debut book "Culture Blooming: Nurturing Workplaces Where People Grow" with Berrett-Koehler Publishers in August 2026. Abi transforms organizations by equipping leaders with practical tools to navigate complex conversations around inclusion and psychological safety, ensuring everyone can authentically contribute their unique strengths.

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Session Summary

Emotional intelligence isn't a personality trait you either have or you don't. It's a practice shaped by the culture around you. You can have the highest EQ in the building, and it won't matter if your environment punishes vulnerability and rewards performance over people.

This session reframes emotional intelligence as a business-critical capability that drives how teams communicate, collaborate, make decisions, and show up under pressure. We'll explore why some teams create the conditions for people to show up fully while others unintentionally train people to perform rather than connect, and what leaders can do differently starting today.

Interaction

During the expert session, engages participants through a series of interactive activities and Q&A.

Key Learnings

EQ is a Business Capability, Not a Trait

Emotional intelligence is not an inherent personality trait, but a critical business capability and practice that drives team communication, decision-making, and performance under pressure.

Culture Overrides Individual EQ

Even an individual with high emotional intelligence cannot thrive in an environment that rewards performance over people or punishes vulnerability; EQ is a practice shaped by the surrounding culture.

Low Awareness has Tangible Costs

A lack of emotional awareness results in measurable organizational damage, including misalignment, frequent rework, slowed decision-making, and the loss of talent.

Detailed session description

What we'll cover:

This session gives participants both the self-awareness to recognise their own emotional patterns and the leadership insight to build cultures where emotional intelligence can actually thrive, not just exist on a values poster.

Before you book

Questions about Emotional Intelligence for High-Performance Cultures

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: Emotional intelligence isn't a personality trait you either have or you don't. It's a practice shaped by the culture around you.

Is Abi the right expert for this?

Abi Adamson is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.4 out of 5, across 60 responses, and rate Abi personally 4.6 out of 5.

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Abi, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.

How does this work under GDPR?

We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.

What do we get afterwards?

You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.

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