Technology and consulting
From automating reports to leading custom development and advising complex organizations, I translate ambiguity into software people can actually use.
Career and project timeline →Software leader · founder · pianist
I build useful systems, capable teams, and places to belong.
I’m Adam Lepley, a Kenosha-based technology leader whose path runs from a manufacturing floor to software architecture, enterprise consulting, company building, and community work.
20+ yearsbuilding software, teams, and trusted client relationships
2 venturesEmpath Design and Harbor Hub
1 through-lineunderstand the person before designing the solution
One path, several modes
A career that crosses boundaries.
The titles have changed. The work has consistently been about connecting people, systems, and possibilities that do not naturally arrive in the same room.
Business and community
Harbor Hub and the Great Lakes Technology Corridor are experiments in place: bringing thoughtful people together and giving good work somewhere to grow.
What I’m building now ↓Improvisation
Piano is where I practice responding in real time—listening for the next idea, letting patterns develop, and leaving room for surprise.
Listen and watch →Now
Three ways of creating momentum.
Empath Design
My consulting studio and the umbrella for a growing team of specialists. We design, build, and place the right people on meaningful enterprise and nonprofit projects.
Visit Empath Design →Harbor Hub
A founder-led workspace in downtown Kenosha, opened in early 2026 to make room for independent work and genuine connection.
See the story →Great Lakes Technology Corridor
A new regional community connecting the people shaping technology between Chicago and Milwaukee.
Explore GLTC →Selected collaborations
Different rooms. The same responsibility.
Listen well, make the complex understandable, and leave the people and systems stronger than you found them.
EnterpriseCarnegie Hall · Thermo Fisher Scientific · MOBILion Systems
ConsultingWheels · Gallagher · PricewaterhouseCoopers
NonprofitRCAC · HopeWell · Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts · Scouting America · APOPO
PlatformsMicrosoft 365 · Dynamics 365 · Azure · Power Platform · custom software
“I never took the straight path into technology. That turned out to be one of my greatest advantages.”From my origin story