Laura Adams

About Laura Adams

My experience bridges sustainability, new business creation, and organizational design and culture building. In each role, I help organizations act differently in order to deliver greater impact. I have built and piloted new businesses with Nike’s incubator, managed cross-sector partnerships focused on accelerating sustainable innovation within the footwear & apparel supply chain, led the creation of a new data management system, and led the assessment and restructuring of an 100+ person organization. I’m a collaborative leader, always seeking to learn from those around me, while creating a shared understanding of problems and solutions, and building relationships and influence to drive change.

Experience

1. Chief of Staff

   Spark Climate Solutions

   Nov 2022 — Present

   Spark is a science-led 501(c)(3) climate action non-profit accelerating progress in emerging, high-impact climate fields. By working directly with scientists, policymakers, and peer organizations, Spark supports the growth of emerging fields with the potential to limit warming, monitor and manage Earth systems risk, and help enable our return to a safe climate. Spark focuses on expanding the portfolio of mitigation and adaptation approaches that enable our return to a safe climate and minimize environmental and social risks along the way.Spark’s first programs focus on large, under-addressed methane areas that currently represent unmanaged risks to our overall climate trajectory, including work on enteric methane mitigation, methane removal research, natural systems feedbacks, and additional innovation areas to assist efforts to mitigate super climate pollutants.Spark\'s work is made possible through support from the Grantham Foundation, Quadrature Climate Foundation, Spitzer Charitable Trust, Astera Fund, Additional Ventures, and additional generous and audacious funders.

Education

• Stanford University

  BA, English

Skills

• Project Management
• Business Planning
• Digital Marketing
• Strategy
• Digital Strategy
• Product Development