Josh Leibner is a founding partner of Quantum Performance, Inc. He has more than twenty years’ experience in organizational consulting within Global 1000 corporations and has designed, managed, and delivered business transformation projects involving direct interaction with more than 50,000 employees at all levels, from the boardroom to the shop floor, in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Far East. Josh has extensive experience in the design and facilitation of strategy development processes, executive team coaching and training, cultural values design and integration, and large scale cultural change initiatives. He has worked within the financial services, telecommunications, automotive, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, entertainment, insurance, forest products, and biotechnology industries. His clients have included AT&T, Avaya, Campbell Soup, the Canadian Department of Corrections, Capital One Bank, Goodyear Rubber Chemicals, Guinness Brewing, Harris Bank, Lucent Technologies, Ogden Waste Management, Panavision, Pfizer, Prudential Insurance, Siemens Automotive, Technicolor Film Services, the United Way, and Zurich Financial Services. He lives in Bridgewater, New Jersey with his son.

In addition to working with more than 50,000 people around the world on improving productivity and communication, Gershon Mader has managed an international training and consulting firm based in Israel where he worked closely with entrepreneurs and small businesses. After retiring as a captain from his military service in an elite commando combat unit, he continued to coach senior military officers and combat teams in high performance communication and team building. Gershon has extensive expertise and experience in transformational training, as well as in coaching and motivating executives, managers and employees to create new possibilities and strategies, and achieve dramatic improvements in productivity and performance. His twenty-eight years of experience as a trainer, consultant and coach include designing and delivering large-scale change projects in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and the Middle East, working at all levels of Fortune 500 and equivalent international organizations, as well as with union executives and employees. Prior to his consulting career Gershon was a counselor working with underprivileged youth in sub- developed communities in Israel. An expert in his field, he is a regular speaker at corporate events where he continuously receives outstanding accolades. In addition, Gershon has been quoted in major publications including Forbes, plus he has co-published numerous articles on leadership and management in significant publications. Gershon is a founding partner of Quantum Performance, Inc. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three children.

Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc. has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times, and over 400 other leading organizations. He serves on the boards of directors of the Trinity Repertory Company, a Tony-Award-winning New England regional theater, and the Newport International Film Festival. His speaking typically includes 30 keynotes a year at major conferences, and he has been a visiting faculty member at Case Western Reserve University, Boston College, Tufts, St. John’s, the University of Illinois, the Institute of Management Studies, and the University of Georgia Graduate School of Business. He has held an appointment as adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Rhode Island where he taught courses on advanced management and consulting skills. He holds the record for selling out the highest priced workshop (on entrepreneurialism) in the 21-year history of New York City’s Learning Annex. His Ph.D. is in psychology and he is a member of the American Psychological Society, the American Counseling Association, Division 13 of the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He was recently appointed to the Board of Governors of Harvard University’s Center for Mental Illness and the Media. He has keynoted for the American Psychological Association on two occasions.