Andrew W. Silberman

Andrew Silberman has been coaching high performance individuals and teams since 1989. At AMT Group, which he co-founded in Tokyo in 1992, he leads a team of multi-national facilitators and staff whose mission is "Developing Global Thinkers." His clients are managers and executives from leading firms throughout Asia (as well as occasionally in the U.S. and Europe).

Andrew's expertise is in improving "Global Readiness," the theme of his book Get a G.RI.P.*: Andrew's Ax Guide to "Global Readiness�", published by Media Tectonics in 2012. In addition to his work inside AMT Group, Andrew is a regular columnist for the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ Journal) and writes the E-newsletter Andrew's Ax. You can find his mini-video series The Chops on the AMT Group website and Facebook page. The series provides entertaining previews, reviews and insights related to the newsletter.

Since 2010 he has been an adjunct professor of HR (Managing and Developing Human Capital) for the Temple University Japan Executive MBA program. His goal there is to integrate practical approaches to developing people in the context of a rigorous academic setting.

His volunteer activities include leadership positions at the ACCJ, where he was awarded �Leader of the Year� in both 2006 and 2009 and was elected governor in 2012-2014. He is also a board member of International Secondary School (ISS), a high school for kids who�ve struggled to adapt to the regular school system, and was a founding member and 2014 President of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan's (FCCJ) Toastmasters Club.

In his spare time, under the alias Andy Atkins, he is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Moonshots, a feel-good/roots rock band, playing at live houses, weddings, charity events and private parties in and around Tokyo. The Moonshots have been playing together since 1999 and released their first CD, Ten Year Testimonial in 2010 and will release their second, Pieces Falling, in the spring of 2015.

Andrew has been working in multi-cultural offices during his entire career. Prior to entering the training field, he worked in sales and marketing in Honolulu, Hawaii, central and southern California, Madrid, Spain and in Mexico City. He first started working in international business as Director of Corporate Marketing for AIESEC-Berkeley. Andrew was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived from age three to 18 in Saratoga, California. He is married with two sons (Skylar, 12, and Walter, 8). He holds an A.B. in the Political Economy of Industrial Societies from U.C. Berkeley (1984) and an MBA in international management from the Fisher School of Business at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (with distinction, 1988).