Bill Adams is a Senior Vice President of Allison + Partners and leads the firm’s consulting in Shanghai. Bill has over two decades of experience in China, he provides strategic counsel to clients on corporate reputation management, executive profiling, issue/crisis management, and corporate responsibility. Bill’s clients have included multi-national companies, local Chinese enterprises, government departments, and non-governmental organizations.
As a professional trainer Bill has designed and conducted numerous spokesperson workshops, crisis communication trainings, crisis simulations, and facilitated messaging and strategic planning workshops for senior executives and support staff. Bill has thousands of hours of training and teaching experience.
Prior to working in PR, Bill was an analyst of East Asian economic, political and security issues with the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor). Bill was also the chief representative of Communications Consulting, a training and human resources consultancy. Bill holds a Masters in Public Affairs and a Masters in Asian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He is fluent in Mandarin.