Adelina decodes soft skills into easy to understand concepts. One of Adelina's key skills is that she co-designs her workshops with the people in the audience and a white board. She's known as "The Geek Whisperer" because people who observed Adelina working with engineers said: "I have never seen anyone connect with engineers like this. It's like you are a geek whisperer." She loved the name, but did not take it on until 5 years later, after she spoke to countless engineers and scientists and asked if they felt patronised by this name. The majority (93%) said they liked the name and found it quirky, so she decided to take it on.

Adelina worked in human rights for 9 years, until she realised in 2011 that the tech sector has a bigger impact on humans' quality of life than government. In 2019 she won the Cofinitive Top 7#People to Watch Award .
She also works with Microsoft, Amazon and one of Arm’s original founders on an annual event where Cambridge tech start-up founders present a business problem and the panel (made of founders/executives from Arm, Amazon and Microsoft) give advice on how they would solve it. Other people on Adelina’s panel included: former MD at Yahoo! Europe, former CTO at HP, Director of Engineering at Amazon, former Chief Digital Officer at UBS and many Arm executives.