WHO WE ARE
About Block Performance
Experience you can trust.
These figures represent the collective experience of Block Performance professionals.
Industries Served
- Financial services
- Insurance
- Hospitality
- Retail
- Logistics and supply chain
- Industrial services
- Technology
- Healthcare
- Higher education
- Nonprofit and mission-driven organizations
- Private equity-backed businesses
Representative Global Experience
- United States
- Canada
- Mexico
- Brazil
- United Kingdom
- France
- Germany
- India
- China/Hong Kong
- Japan
- South Korea
- Italy
Andrew Block
CEO and Founder
CEO and Board Advisor | Former Fortune 500 Executive |
ICF Professional Certified Coach
Andrew Block is the CEO and Founder of Block Performance, a performance advisory firm that helps senior executives turn strategy into results by strengthening the leaders, teams, and organizational systems that drive performance.
With more than 25 years of experience leading, advising, coaching, and developing leaders across complex organizations, Andrew brings a practical understanding of the connection between strategy, leadership, talent, culture, and enterprise performance. He is a former Fortune 500 CHRO, senior business executive, and ICF Professional Certified Coach. For more than a decade, he partnered with boards and compensation committees on executive succession, executive compensation, talent strategy, and organizational performance. He also served on the board of the NMDP Foundation.
Prior to founding Block Performance, Andrew served as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at ABM Industries and Senior Vice President and Head of Human Resources and Communications at Buffalo Wild Wings. He also held leadership roles at C.H. Robinson, Wells Fargo, Ecolab, and Sony.
Today, Andrew advises CEOs, CHROs, boards, C-suite executives, and senior leadership teams on leadership effectiveness, strategic alignment, team performance, executive transitions, succession, talent strategy, culture, organizational design, and enterprise transformation. His experience spans public companies, privately owned businesses, private equity-backed organizations, high-growth companies, and nonprofits.
As CEO and Founder, Andrew shapes the firm’s strategy, guides client engagements, and actively advises senior leaders and teams while working alongside a team of experienced coaches, consultants, and advisors.
Credentials: ICF Professional Certified Coach; SHRM-SCP; Certificate in Private Company Governance; Hogan and EQ-i 2.0 certifications; Master’s degree in Industrial Relations, University of Minnesota.
OUR TEAM
The Block Performance team includes experienced professionals with complementary expertise across leadership, coaching, team effectiveness, talent, and organizational performance. Their experience spans a wide range of industries and geographies. For each engagement, we align the right team and capabilities to the client’s specific needs, combining senior-level experience, practical insight, and hands-on partnership to achieve meaningful results.
OUR MISSION
We develop leaders, strengthen teams, and build organizations that perform at their highest level.
OUR VISION
A world where leaders, teams, and organizations achieve meaningful progress through exceptional performance and shared commitment.
OUR OPERATING PRINCIPLES
Performance First
We operate with integrity, accountability, and discipline to deliver results that matter. We hold ourselves and our clients to a high standard because the work is too important for activity without impact.
People Power Performance
We believe sustainable performance is created through people. When individuals are supported, equipped, challenged, and empowered, organizational results accelerate.
Own the Outcome
We take full responsibility for the commitments we make. Success is shared, setbacks are examined with discipline, and learning is used to strengthen future performance.
Align to Win
We believe clarity is a strategic advantage. We align direction, expectations, priorities, and decision rights so people can execute with confidence and trust.
Challenge to Elevate
We ask the difficult questions, provide candid perspective, and hold a high bar, always with respect and always in service of stronger performance.
Inclusive by Design
We intentionally create environments where diverse thinking, backgrounds, and perspectives strengthen decisions, improve innovation, and elevate outcomes.