ADAIRA LANDRY MD MED

Hello. My name is Adaira.

I am an award-winning mentor, keynote speaker, published author, career coach, and Assistant Professor at Harvard, specializing in career development. I teach professionals how to navigate the workplace using compassionate, efficient, and actionable strategies.

Keynotes

Delivering Mentorship with a Lens of Equity

Learn how to become a mentor who prioritizes equity and inclusivity by addressing systemic barriers in the workplace and ensuring equal access. Through real-world examples and practical strategies, we’ll explore how to create diverse, supportive mentoring relationships and provide customized support. This 1-hour session is ideal for mid-career and senior professionals looking to drive compassionate, meaningful change in the workplace.

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Leveraging Your Network to Build Your Career

Discover innovative strategies for building and nurturing a professional network. Will emphasize techniques to balance support for yourself while finding ways to help others. Using real-world examples and actionable techniques, we’ll explore key relationship-building principles to advance your career. This 1-hour session is open to professionals at any stage looking to tap into their support system and gain expertise.

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Task Management Strategies to Save One’s Career

This lecture emphasizes the power of a mindset shift. Moving away from the idea of being obligated to take on all tasks. Moving towards a practice of understanding your mission, identity, and calendar. Attendees will gain tactical strategies that immediately allow them to lighten their burden, move faster, and do work that brings measurable impact. This session is 1 hour and any professional who feels overwhelmed with work.

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Success with Self-Compassion

This lecture is a journey of learning how to consider the way we natural gravitate towards overwork. We will discuss the power of peer pressure, protecting our reputation, and fear of missing out. Audience members will instead be encouraged to practice principles that allow one to pause before accepting an opportunity, ask screening questions upfront, and consider their own definition of success as they move forward. This session is 1 hour and for students, parents, and professionals who feel overwhelmed with work.

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Social Media for the Quiet and Private

Social media offers tremendous value, but it often seems like success requires being “always on”— sharing personal details, posting videos of travel and family, living publicly online. That works well for some, but not for everyone. Many of us want to leverage the benefits of the community and algorithm while maintaining a quiet and private life. This talk explores practical ways to harness social media’s benefits while protecting your comfort and space. We cover how to build knowledge, find inspiration, and build focused connections.

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workshops

Writing Opinion and Perspective Articles

Learn how to effectively write for mainstream media, focusing on crafting opinion and perspective articles. Participants will explore the key differences between academic and media writing, with an emphasis on tone, accessibility, and audience engagement. Through hands-on exercises and real-world examples, attendees will gain practical strategies for translating complex ideas into compelling, reader-friendly content. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped to pitch and write articles that resonate with broader audiences. This workshop is 2-3 hours and for any industry or professional stage.

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Task Management Strategies to Save One’s Career: 

In this workshop, learns will incorporate key, actionable strategies to improve their active obligations. This session moves away from the language, “Say Yes to Everything.” and instead encourages attendees to have a better grasp of their current obligations, their available time, their strategy to screen an opportunity, and the language they use to decline an offer. This workshop is highly interactive and uses worksheets to move the discussion along. This workshop is 2-3 hours and is for any professional in any industry.

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Building Expertise and Showcasing Your Brand

In this workshop, we will discuss the challenges with building expertise such as identifying a niche, building collaborations, pushing your own boundaries. We will also discuss ways to develop comfort showcasing one’s accomplishments. All attendees will walk away with a roadmap to feel more comfort with bolstering their expertise and advertising their work and knowledge. This workshop is 2 hours and for any stage of the professional journey.

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Finding Your Next Opportunity

Many of us are overwhelmed with where our career currently stands. Meetings. Emails. Deadlines. Projects. The crowded space can stifle creativity, collaboration, and compassion. In this lecture we discuss strategies to audit out responsibilities, learn how to quit, and forget FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) as we embrace the love of JOMO (Joy of Missing Out). Most importantly, with this new space, we will consider what it is we care most about and how to find and screen relevant opportunities that bring measurable return of investment. This workshop is 1-2 hours.

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Selection of Prior Speaking Engagements: Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, UPenn, Columbia, Dartmouth, UCSF, Boston Medical Center, New York University, SUNY Downstate, Geisinger Hospital, Brown Women’s Conference, Women in Medicine Leadership Conference, Brave Enough Leadership Conference, Council of Medical Specialty Societies, Lincoln Avenue Capital, Women of Color in the Academy Conference, Eisenhower Health, Harvard Women’s Leadership Course: Career Advancement and Leadership Skills for Women in Healthcare, The Women’s Network, American Medical Student Association, Association of American Medical Colleges

Credentials

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Experienced leader in mentoring early-career professionals, with a focus on career development for Gen Z and Millennials as a student advisor at Harvard Medical School. A sought-after speaker, delivering impactful workplace insights on national and international stages.

Emergency Medicine Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Emergency Medicine physician with 15+ years of experience in team leadership, time and task management, delivering difficult news, de-escalating stress, resolving conflict, simplifying complex information, teaching technical skills, and practicing active listening. These skills are integrated into my speaking, writing, and coaching.

Masters in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Extensive training in teaching adult learners with innovative curricula, including expertise in lecture, workshop, and slide design fundamentals.

Books

MicroSkills: Small Action, Big Impact

Microskills: Small Action, Big Impact is a business, self-help book for all professionals, though perhaps most relevant for those in their early-career. Published in 2024, with Harper Collins, the promise of the book is simple: If you buy this book on Friday, you will be better at your job by Monday.

Nia Needs a Cast & An Ambulance Ride

Nia Needs a Cast and An Ambulance Ride are children’s books that help normalize Black women in the healthcare sector. Published in 2022 with Hameray Books, these collections will help enrich a child’s understanding of the healthcare process and workforce.

Articles

Academic Publications

NEJM; Academic Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine E&T, Nature, Science, Lancet America, BMJ, Annals of Emergency Medicine

Non-Academic Publications

Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Boston Globe, CNBC, USA Today, Forbes, Teen Vogue, Vogue

Interviews & Quotes

New York Times, The New Yorker, Women’s Health

Media Appearances

News Interviews

WCVB NewsCenter 5 Boston

Awards

Brigham and Women’s Hospital “Pillar Junior Faculty Mentor Award”

Academic Association of Women Emergency Physician “Rising Star Award”

Brigham and Women’s Hospital Emergency Medicine “Education and Teaching Award”

Emergency Medicine Residency Association “EMRA Faculty Mentor of the Year”

Emergency Medicine Residency Association “EMRAS 25 under 45”

Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency “Mentor of the Year, D&I”

Massachusetts General Brigham “Outstanding Mentor Award”

Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine “Early Career Educator Award”

Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, “Mentor of the Year, D&I”

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine “SAEM Early Educator Award”

Harvard Medical School “Michael Shannon Excellence in Mentorship Award”

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