About Gershon Mader
Breakthrough Performance Expert | Best-Selling Author | International Leadership Specialist
What if your leadership team could be transformed into a high-performance, completely aligned, accountable and courageous unit — in just 30 days or less? That’s not a promise Gershon Mader makes lightly. It’s the result of more than three decades of Breakthrough Performance coaching and consulting at the highest levels of global business, forged first in the fires of elite military service and proven again and again with small emerging and enterprise companies across five continents.
A Career Built on Transformation
Gershon Mader is the founder and President of Quantum Performance Inc., a boutique management consulting firm specializing in organizational ownership & alignment, bold strategic commitment, and breakthrough team performance. Over more than 30 years, he has worked with over 60,000 executives, managers and employees — from the boardroom to the shop floor — across Fortune 500 companies, leading global organizations, non-profits and startups at various stages of their evolution in banking, telecommunications, cyber security, fintech, high-tech, tech integrators, genomics, entertainment, manufacturing, insurance, real estate, retail and beyond.
His client roster reads like a who’s who of global business: AT&T, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, F5, Extreme, Capital One, Lucent Technologies, Avaya, Chubb Insurance, Zurich Insurance, Cushman & Wakefield, CBRE, Colliers Realty, Sentinel One, Drivenet, Melio, The United Way, Marks & Spencer, and many others. He has designed and led large-scale change projects throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Japan and the Middle East — consistently producing results that others consider impossible.
What makes Gershon’s methodology uniquely powerful is the speed and durability of the results it generates. His work has produced a 150% year-over-year sales growth for one global client, a 3x manufacturing production output increase in 12 months, with significantly increased quality, 60% reduction in quality product release time, 95% customer satisfaction rating and a 90% employee satisfaction rating for another — while simultaneously reducing the organisation by 40%. These are not incremental gains. They are the product of a structured, proven approach to creating total alignment, ownership and accountability across every level of an organisation.
From Commando Captain to Corporate Catalyst
Before he ever set foot in a boardroom, Gershon Mader learned leadership where it matters most: in the field.
His military service as an officer in an elite commando combat unit, then team high performance and effective communication coach, taught him invaluable lessons—about commitment, trust, cohesion and accountability under pressure, as well as the critical role of shared determination and resolve- which became the foundation of everything he teaches today.
Early in his career, Gershon also worked as a counsellor with underprivileged youth in underserved communities and later managed an international transformation training and consulting firm, where he worked closely with entrepreneurs and small businesses, coaching and training them in taking their business to a new level. These experiences gave him an unusually broad and human perspective on what drives people — and what holds them back. He brought that perspective into the corporate world, and it has never left him.
The Breakthrough Performance Framework
Gershon’s USP is singular and bold: he helps CEOs build completely cohesive, aligned, accountable and courageous teams within 30 days or less — no matter the starting point — that 2-3x their company’s key business metrics in 1-3 years max.
This is not off-the-shelf training. It is a tailored, immersive process that rewires the paradigm and culture of a team at its core, producing the kind of alignment most organisations spend years attempting and rarely achieve.
His approach works because it goes beyond skills and processes to address the deeper drivers of organisational performance: a transformation in context and belief, clarity of strategic purpose and intent, genuine individual commitment, personal ownership and accountability, and the kind of trust that enables a team to move with speed and precision. Where other consultants teach concepts and produce reports, Gershon produces transformation.
Best-Selling Author & Thought Leader
Gershon is the co-author of the best-selling business book The Power of Strategic Commitment: Achieving Extraordinary Results Through TOTAL Alignment and Engagement (AMACOM, 2009). Based on his work with tens of thousands of leaders across the globe, the book delivers practical tools, proven methodologies and compelling real-world case studies to help executives and their teams achieve breakthrough performance. It has become a definitive resource for leaders serious about driving organisational change.
Beyond his book, Gershon is a prolific contributor to the business press. He has written articles and thought leadership pieces for the Drake Business Review, Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Human Resource Executive Magazine, Workforce Management, HR Executive, The Leader, CEO Magazine, and MWorld — the Journal of the American Management Association. He has been quoted and featured in Forbes, the Huffington Post, Executive Decision, the Ragan Report and more. His blog, ‘Leading and Living Courageously’ provides insights and practical tools to his loyal followership of CEOs, executives, managers and professionals who follow him weekly.
A Speaker Who Moves Rooms
Gershon is a sought-after keynote speaker and conference presenter who consistently receives outstanding feedback from corporate audiences around the world. His sessions are known for combining intellectual rigour with real-world practicality and a compelling personal narrative. Executives leave not just inspired but equipped with a clear and actionable path forward.
Gershon and his wife have three grown-up children and spend their time living in Toronto and Miami.
