One-to-One Partner Profile
Adam Geary
Founder · Creative Collaborations Coaching
Communications coach working across collaboration, creativity and personal coaching — after roughly thirty years as a university educator, scholar and mentor.
- Givers Gain Chapter
- Tucson, AZ
- PhD, 30 years in education
- Zoom & around Tucson
4.3 · Biography Sheet
Get to know Adam
Business
- Business name
- Creative Collaborations Coaching LLC
- Profession
- Communications Coach — collaboration, creativity and personal coaching
- Works from
- Zoom and coffee shops around Tucson
- Years in the business
- Thirty years of related experience; the coaching practice itself launched in 2026
- Chapter
- Givers Gain — Tucson, AZ
- Previous types of jobs
- University educator, professional scholar and writer, writing coach and editor, intellectual mentor and advisor, co-creator of a small nonprofit, department leader in a large organisation, mentor to young adults, youth-development counsellor
Family & Home
- Spouse
- Married — together more than 30 years
- Children
- None
- Pets
- The birds, lizards, bees, butterflies and other creatures that live in our yard
- City of residence
- Tucson, AZ
- How long?
- 25 years
Personal
- Hobbies
- Singing, reading, travelling, and enjoying delicious food — sometimes cooking it too.
- Activities & interests
- Philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis, the history of religions, visual arts and radical democracy. Sci-fi and fantasy for fun, alongside plenty of literary novels. Art and museums. Sings in a community choir, listens to a lot of 80s new wave and post-punk, and travels in Europe with his husband — especially Italy.
Burning desire
Visit Istanbul and travel the southern coast of Turkey for the ancient ruins.
No one here knows
I studied in a seminary.
The key to my success
Patience. People need time to settle in before they'll say what they really think.
4.4 · GAINS Exchange
Goals, Accomplishments, Interests, Networks, Skills
Where we might overlap, and what I can open up for you.
Goals
- Clarify the problem I solve, and the offer for solving it
- Work out a pricing structure
- Keep improving my own exercise and health
Accomplishments
- A PhD in the humanities
- Twenty years of university teaching done with intention and care
- Mentoring students and young adults — primarily LGBT, female and people of colour
- Co-creating a small education nonprofit for high-school-aged girls of colour
- Starting my own coaching business
- A happy relationship of more than 30 years
Interests
- Friendship as a primary relationship
- Interpersonal and group dynamics
- Psychoanalysis and psychology
- Radical democratic practices and politics
- Attention
- Remaining human — or regaining one's humanity — in a dehumanising world
Networks
- Givers Gain chapter — Tucson, AZ
- University of Arizona
- Tucson LGBT Chamber of Commerce
- The US academy at large
Skills
- Discussion-based, skill-oriented teaching
- Curriculum design for one-day, multi-day and semester-long courses and workshops
- Academic and business writing and editing
- Department and unit leadership
- Mentoring, advising and coaching
- Leading group decision-making and goal setting
- Active listening
4.5 · Contact Sphere Planning
Who naturally refers me business
Executive coach is the only part of my contact sphere already seated in the chapter — any of the rest would help, and I haven't narrowed it to three yet.
My contact sphere
- Executive coach — nonprofit or business
- Life coach for people in the professions
- Management coach or consultant
- Executive headhunter
- Consultant who works with nonprofit boards
- Psychotherapist
- Political campaign specialist
- Educational pedagogy developer
- Publication / writing agent
- Academic or education coach
4.6 · Ideal Clients
Who I do my best work with
The practice is new, so this is who it's built for rather than a client list.
- Leaders who want to cultivate more humane and democratic decision-making and working relationships
- Executives and boards running a real decision-making process — one where the answer isn't settled in advance
- Executives and managers at medium-sized businesses or nonprofits wanting to close the feedback loop between listening and acting
- Listening and collaboration professionals — nurses, doctors, teachers, social workers, therapists, school administrators
- Curriculum designers and educators building work around attention, listening and collaboration
- Writers on long-term projects — academic, fiction or popular non-fiction — who would benefit from a process coach
- People who don't want to lose their souls to dehumanising conditions but can't yet see a path forward
Not a fit
- Executives or managers in large, impersonal corporations
- Executives or managers who actively dislike their own people
- Anyone who isn't self-motivated to learn and change — self-motivation isn't sufficient for change, but it is essential
Work with Adam
Coaching for collaboration, creativity and the kind of listening that changes how a team decides things.