Jaqueline Adams is a journalist, author, consultant and convener.

After more than two decades as an Emmy Award-winning CBS News correspondent, she launched her boutique consulting firm, J Adams: Strategic Communications, LLC., and works with both corporate and non-profit clients.

Ms. Adams is the co-founder of  the training program for rising star managers of color, The Diverse Future.  She also serves as a senior advisor to the B-2-B firm, NicklPass, which provides easy access to subscriptions via one login for teams.

In 2020, she co-authored, “A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive” as well as the subsequent Executive Summaries for the 2019, 2020, and 2021 proprietary surveys, “U.S Women of Color in Business: Cross Generational Survey©.”   In 2022, she launched an on-going series of Climate Story blogs for the Harvard Business School Business and Environment Initiative. 

At CBS News, Ms. Adams spent five years as a White House correspondent during the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations.  In the 1990s, she was a prolific contributor to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS News Sunday Morning.

She serves on the boards of the Harvard Business School Club of New York and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.  Ms. Adams is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Advisory Committee of the United States Institute of Peace, and the Advisory Council of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream.  She is a patron of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.