About Adrion Porter
Adrion Porter is a keynote speaker, LinkedIn Top Voice, storyteller, podcaster, and founder of Mid-Career Mastery®. He helps experienced professionals navigate career inflection points, rewrite the stories that keep them stuck, and master their next chapter.
At the center of Adrion’s work is the Mastery Map®, a story-centered framework grounded in narrative identity psychology and neuroscience, and built around three interconnected pillars of transformation: Mindset, Meaning, and Milestones.
Central to his thought leadership is what he calls the shift from Anchoring Stories to Authoring Stories: identifying and reframing the internal narratives that can quietly hold us in place, so we can reclaim agency, authorship, and ownership over our story, and master what comes next.
Adrion’s thought leadership on career transformation, including his signature reframe of “the magical middle,” has been featured across major media outlets including Forbes, Black Enterprise, the USA TODAY Network, BBC, and ESSENCE. He is also the creator and host of Gen X Amplified, recognized by Forbes as one of the “10 Best Podcasts for Managers and Mid-Level Leaders.”
As a speaker and strategic thought partner, Adrion has delivered keynotes, workshops, and leadership experiences for leading organizations including Fidelity Investments, TIAA, Humana, Truist, McKesson, AARP, Harvard Medical School, the National Black MBA Association, and Black Enterprise.
Before founding Mid-Career Mastery®, Adrion spent two decades leading brand development, marketing, and storytelling for companies including HBO, Cartoon Network, and Citi. He holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University and a BBA from the University of Memphis.