Brent Adamson serves as managing director of executive advisory services for the Corporate Executive Board’s sales and marketing leadership councils, where he has worked on various sales and marketing studies.
He most recently worked at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business before joining CEB and previously served as professor of German and applied linguistics at Michigan State University.
Adamson has also contributed articles about sales for the Harvard Business Review’s blog and CEB’s sales blog, as well as written on various subjects for Bloomberg Businessweek and Selling Power.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and master’s degree from the University of Michigan and doctor of philosophy in applied linguistics from the University of Texas.