is Director of The Courage Institute’s Program Design Centre in Israel’s Western Galilee and is the thought-leader who discovered the 5 Courage Factors, which is the foundation of our approach to team mobilization and accerating strategy-execution with matrix management, alliances, networks and cross-functional teams.
As a consultant with 30+ years of experience, Merom has led a number of large-scale team mobilization and change initiatives mobilizing organizations to achieve breakthrough gains in R&D productivity, customer service, sales and risk management. He has coached top executives through transformation into matrix structures and partnerships. And has led Courage to Lead™ workshops for luminary experts and orchestrators in middle managers roles. He is most experienced in the pharmaceutical and biotech, financial services, aerospace, managed services, retail, heavy manufacturing, chemical and consumer products industries, as well as with civilian and military government agencies.
Merom is best known as a provocative and engaging speaker to executive groups who have to mobilize their organizations and to conferences of professionals are called upon to exhibit greater thought-leadership and influence. Merom is also known as a simulation designer who has developed dozens of action-learning exercises and training modules, many of which have been featured in corporate university and executive development programs across the globe.
Merom’s groundbreaking book, The Courage to Act, was co-authored with Prof Rod Napier and was published in 2003 by Davies-Black in the USA, featuring his discoveries about the 5 Courage Factors. Their second book, Luminaries, Luddites and Linkers: The Courage to Orchestrate Fast Strategy Execution is due out in 2011. Merom earned his PhD at Temple University, Philadelphia USA in Organizational Psychology, where he started his research on the courage to lift performance and “make things happen” in times of adversity.
