David Adler

David Adler is a game changer at the center of the hospitality industry. He has been called the consummate "pied piper for the power of human gatherings."  Recent cover stories of him reference his belief in managed serendipity as a guiding principle. As the founder of BizBash, he created a world-class media company and resource for hundreds of thousands of monthly users all built on his 40-plus years as a communication strategist for corporations, government agencies, and not-for-profits. He refers to his audience of people gatherers as "collaboration artists"  because a successful collaboration truly is an art form. His first book on the topic is a compendium of interviews with 65 "collaboration artists" who offer insights on how even serendipitous meetings connect, inspire, and offer life-changing paths for those who take advantage of what life has to offer. 

His career includes everything from starting a society magazine, Washington Dossier (Washington Dossier.com)  in Washington D.C at the age of 21, to helping to pioneer cause marketing with launches of the Avon Breast Cancer Campaign to starting a media brand from scratch in New York City (BizBash) to working for Chief of Protocol of the United States on projects like creating the first American Chef Corp and the first Global Chiefs of Protocol Conference. 

Positions as chief of communications in large media companies including Macmillan and PRIMEDIA gave him a birdseye view of the changing nature of human behavior as events became a must-have that connected workforces, customers, and management in ways that made people pay more attention to their constituencies. 

His dream is to help share the best practices and scientific advances in high-performing collaboration to move the world forward. Adler resides in Washington D.C. and is active in several nonprofit and professional organizations, including current and previous board positions with SISO (Society of Independent Show Operators), NYC & Company, the WNET Education Committee, the Dean's Advisory Council of the American University School of Communications, The Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, the Magazine Publishers Association, and Citymeals-on-Wheels, The Fine Arts Committee of the State Department of the United States and the Open Future Institute and Meridian House.