Not Jimmy Rees.
Or part of The Fray.
Who is this Adam Murray,
calling himself a
subtle disruptor?
Who is Adam Murray?
Adam is a trusted partner, strategic advisor, expert facilitator, and mentoring thought-partner.
He works with owners and founders who are hands-on operators in their business. Those who know they could do with an extra set of eyes, ears, or hands.
He is like the quiet, dependable, grounded, consistent friend who is always there. Not flashy. Working with the incremental and tailored rather than the step-change and formulaic.
What is subtle disruption?
Subtle disruption is a term I coined, partly to separate, and partly to cohere.
When I started this work, moving fast and breaking things was the way it was suppose to be done. I wanted to separate myself from this. Although it was a path to rapid growth and riches, from my time in start-ups I did not like the consequences of this approach that I witnessed. I wanted to conceive of a better way.
About that time I was having wonderful conversations with people who we making incremental, quiet, continuous, positive change in the world around them. They weren’t people you would hear about usually. In isolation their work was not having an enormous impact.
But in aggregate these people were changing the way we lived: both in this moment, and enabling a world for the next moment.
I saw them as subtle disruptors. I started a podcast to understand the way they thought, and to encourage others who had a similar way of being.
And it was from this place that I built my approach to working and helping other subtle disruptors.
So how does subtle disruption show up in the way you work?
Well…can I say subtly?
It is a reflective, adaptive, emergent way of working the responds to its context.
Through presence and observation, I work with what is already active. I sense as broadly as possible, and hold space while you explore your own thinking.
I don’t come as the expert or the one with all the answers. While I draw upon my experience, I do so to complement your own thinking an insights, not to impose myself as one who sees more clearly.
It means working to understand what the next best move is, the one that will take you closer to the world you want to create. And then to sense whether this move did or did not help, and once again adjust accordingly.
How did Adam get to be doing this kind of work?
I took all the paths, and somehow they led to this one.
Undergraduate in Information Technology to get a sneak peak at the possible. Eight years in management consulting to dampen my enthusiasm.
Travel to Kenya and India to rid myself of some naïvety.
Five years managing and owning small businesses to have skin in the game.
Three years running and start-up to be introduced to lean, agile and incremental change.
Two years as a solo entrepreneur, starting a podcast, a breath mint business, a blog and a solo practice.
Four years as a consulting product manager to get inside the mindset of a CEO.
Three years doing in-house strategy and strategic operations, helping Execs and VPs bring their plans to life.
That is one part of the path, not to mention fatherhood, sport and spirituality.
It is not the usual path, or one that I expect anyone else has followed. But it gives me that ability to pattern match from a breadth and depth of experience, recombining these in novel ways.
Contact Adam
I’d love to hear about your organisation, and the challenges and opportunities you are looking into. Feel free to email me via adam@subtledisruptors.com, or fill out this contract form.