Adrian McIntyre, PhD

Dr. Adrian McIntyre is an anthropologist, linguist, media personality, and expert on verbal communication. He's a founding partner at Speed of Story, a strategic communications consultancy that specializes in the marketing and selling of expertise. Adrian has worked at the intersection of SOUND + STORY since he was a kid. His broadcasting career began in 1978 at the age of five as co-host of The Happy Day Express, a weekly storytelling show that became the longest-running children's radio program in California history. He's lived in over 30 countries and spent more than a decade in the Middle East and Africa as a journalist, social science researcher, communications adviser and media spokesperson for two of the largest humanitarian relief agencies in the world. He earned a PhD in anth...