Mark Gerzon's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Mark Gerzon helps leaders and their organizations learn skills that are critical for dealing with conflict and leading across difficult social divides. He specializes in enhancing the capacity of competing groups and divided organizations to find alignment around shared goals and values. Mark Gerzon has conducted leadership trainings and lectured throughout the world.
Mark Gerzon is the author of Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities, which was rated as one of the "best business books" by Strategy & Business magazine. According to Stephen Covey, it is "an absolutely brilliant analysis" that shows how to "transform defensive energy into creative, collaborative energy that seeks a higher, third alternative for the good of the whole." Mark Gerzon is also the author of Leaders Without Borders: New Leadership Strategies For An Interdependent World; Serving A Higher Power: The Challenge Of Integral Leadership; A House Divided: Six Belief Systems Struggling for America's Soul; and Leading Beyond Borders: Transforming Conflict Into Opportunity.
In the private sector, Mark Gerzon has worked with major consumer products and high technology industries, and with business organizations such as the Conference Board. In the public sector, he has extensive experience consulting with public sector organizations such as the US House of Representatives or the United Nations Development Program. With all these diverse clients, Mark Gerzon's mission remains constant: to foster the emergence of leaders who know how to build bridges across differences, rather than walls that reinforce them.
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For the past two decades, as President of Mediators Foundation, Mark Gerzon has directed or supported a wide range of projects focused on building a more just, peaceful and sustainable world. Mark Gerzon's efforts between the former Soviet Union and the United States (which catalyzed an end of the Cold War between the two superpowers' film industries), and then his work designing two successful Bipartisan Congressional Retreats, are examples of his approach to conflict transformation.
Internationally, Mark Gerzon's primary work has been as co-chair of the Global Leadership Network, a group of more than two dozen leadership experts and practitioners from throughout the world who are developing a book, workshop and educational curriculum. In the United States, Mark Gerzon is working with Reuniting America to convene and facilitate "transpartisan" dialogues in which representatives from across the political spectrum can explore new and more productive ways of engaging in the political process.
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