Chair of the BoardCo-Founder, Headwaters Strategies
Adam is the co-founder of Headwaters Strategies, a Denver based lobbying and consulting practice that works with corporations, non?profits, trade and professional associations, and public entities to build winning issue?advocacy campaigns.
Adam’s Western roots are deep as there aren’t too many people left in Colorado who can claim four generations of relatives who have lived here, but Adam Eichberg’s family has had Colorado’s soil running through its veins since the 1880s. That’s when his great?great grandfather, a physician, moved to Denver to treat patients suffering from tuberculosis.
So, by the time Adam came along, his connection to the state was very deep. As a kid, Adam spent his summers at a camp at the base of Mount Evans. During the winters, he skied the moguls at Winter Park as a not so competitive racer, and when it came time for college, he stayed put, enrolling at the University of Colorado, where he earned a B.A. in environmental conservation.
Realizing that the natural environment where he’d grown up could be threatened, Adam got involved with political campaigns after graduation, and then took a job as a strategic consultant for one of the nation’s largest conservation groups. There he helped pass legislation and ballot measures providing more than $14 billion in capital funding for parks and open space. After that, Adam created and ran a multi?million dollar foundation dedicated to funding innovative approaches to aid state and federal policy campaigns.
With that experience, Adam took on the role of Director of Policy, External Affairs and Planning at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, where he managed the strategic communication, legislative lobbying, planning and outreach. But Adam wasn’t done there. He simultaneously was appointed the Deputy Legislative Director for Governor Bill Ritter where he focused on the wider issues facing Colorado. In this role, Adam advised Ritter on legislative strategy, supervised the office’s interactions with the General Assembly, and served as one of the Governor’s two principal lobbyists.
“Throughout my career, I’ve been lucky to work on issues I care deeply about, issues that impact the state I love and make it the kind of place I want to raise my family,” he says.
Today, Adam’s kids, who are 15 and 18, enjoy some of the same things Adam did when he was younger, including the skiing program at Winter Park. Beyond skiing with his wife and kids, Adam loves to ride anything with two wheels on the road, in the dirt or on the cyclocross course.