ADAM ANTHONY, Ed.D.

Leadership Development professional with 8+ years designing, facilitating, and evaluating training programs across corporate, government, and nonprofit environments. Builds scalable curricula, mentorship frameworks, and blended learning experiences that improve employee engagement, retention, and leadership pipeline strength. Experienced facilitating hybrid and virtual learning for distributed teams using Canvas, Workday Learning, and Articulate. Ed.D. in Leadership with applied research focus on mentoring efficacy.

• Mental Health First Aid for Youth - National Council for Mental Wellbeing
• Instructional Design Foundations - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• CONFERENCE PRESENTATION - Adoption Knowledge Affiliates: EmpowerMENt Circles: Accepted proposal presentation sharing doctoral dissertation insights into designing identity-affirming spaces for adopted men to build community and belonging.
• LUNCH & LEARN TRAINING SESSION - Families Rising: They Are Not Invisible Understanding the Inner World of Adopted Boys: A powerful training session that explores identity, belonging, silence, and the unseen emotional labor of male adoptees.
• VIRTUAL WEBINAR - We Are Family (UK): Led identity-centered facilitation for educators and families supporting adopted boys who need to explore belonging, emotional wellness, and reclaiming personal narrative as a source of strength.
• MARGINALIZED STUDENT RETENTION STRATEGY SESSION - Trevecca Nazarene University: Synthesized dissertation research into a strategic retention framework for marginalized student populations, collaborating with faculty and administrators to enhance mentoring systems, institutional accountability, and student persistence outcomes.
• GUEST LECTURER - Trevecca Nazarene University: Developed and facilitated a graduate-level social work seminar connecting policy and practice through adoption-informed and culturally responsive frameworks, in addressing complex family systems.