Bio
Adam Nicholas Phillips is an executive leader and strategist focused on building institutions for the common good; he has spent two decades at the intersection of faith and public life.
He is the former Chief Executive Officer at Interfaith America, where he led the institutional operations and strategy of the nation’s largest bridge-building organization with programming and narrative efforts across campus, corporate, and civic spaces. He previously served as a Biden-Harris Administration official leading faith-based and localization efforts at the United States Agency for International Development in both development and diplomatic capacities. In that role, he worked closely with the White House and Department of State to oversee development policy, new and non-traditional partnerships, and democracy initiatives in nearly 100 countries.
Adam is an ordained minister, and in that capacity has led and started new congregations, led faith mobilization efforts at advocacy organizations including ONE, and, many years ago, Bread for the World. He also has experience working on various political campaigns.
Adam has been a TEDx speaker, and his work has been featured in The Atlantic, CNN, Washington Post, NPR, Huffington Post, Relevant Magazine, and the Christian Broadcasting Network’s 700 Club. His book, Power: Leadership for the Common Good, is forthcoming Spring 2027 with Orbis Press. Chicago, Illinois.