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Testimonials

What leaders and audiences say about working with Brad.

Endorsements from peer authors and executive coaches, plus client quotes from leaders at Hilton, Fender, Horizon Media, and beyond.

Peer Endorsements

Authors, coaches, and thought leaders on Brad's work.

Brad Federman's new book, Never Delegate Again, shares a unique and powerful approach to improving management results and expertise! If you manage people and only read one book this year, make it this one and you will be glad you did!
Don Hutson
Hall of Fame Speaker · NYT & WSJ #1 Bestselling Co-author of The One Minute Entrepreneur
If you're open to it, Never Delegate Again will challenge and revolutionize how you lead. It might even change the way you think about your role entirely. And that's exactly the point.
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach · NYT Bestselling Author
This book punches through the noise with heart, humility, and hard truths. Brad Federman offers a game-changing vision: when you grow people first, everything else follows. This is what modern leadership looks like.
David Meltzer
Chairman of The Napoleon Hill Institute, Speaker & Investor
Never Delegate Again is the leadership refresh we've been waiting for. Brad Federman flips the old 'pass-the-task' playbook on its head and shows you how to turn every assignment into a growth accelerator—for your people, your culture, and your bottom line.
Mitchell Levy
Global Credibility Expert & Executive Coach
Never Delegate Again turns traditional delegation on its head. Brad Federman reframes leadership as a growth journey—not a task list. If you care about developing people instead of just directing them, this book delivers.
Alain Hunkins
Author of Cracking the Leadership Code
Client Reviews

The people who hire Brad keep hiring Brad.

Brad not only is he a practiced people whisperer, but he's also one of the unique individuals so grounded in people and culture that my learning in this space was beginning all over again.
Ed Magee
EVP Operations, Fender Music Corporation
I had the opportunity to hear Brad's excellent presentation at the "Taking Control of Your Non-Profit Career Path" conference. He encouraged us to have the right mindset in strategically tackling our career path. At the end of the conference, Brad challenged us to find our individual distinctiveness and to use it to further our career's future. Overall, great speaker!
Carey Treadwell, CMILT
Director of Operational Excellence, Aries Worldwide Logistics
Brad is a dynamic person and speaker. I have attended several seminars that were taught by him. He was inventive and very knowledgeable about each subject.
Jim Wogsland
Director of Brand Performance, Hilton Worldwide
I had the great pleasure of meeting Brad last year just after taking my new position within my company. Brad is personable, intelligent and very respectful of the time that you spend with him. I have used many of the exercises Brad took my team through in my own work with amazing results. I highly recommend Brad to any business that wants to sell more, service more and grow more.
Lauren Russo
EVP Managing Partner, Horizon Media
Praise for the Books

What readers are saying.

Brad Federman's new book, Never Delegate Again, shares a unique and powerful approach to improving management results and expertise! If you manage people and only read one book this year, make it this one and you will be glad you did!
Don Hutson
Hall of Fame Speaker · New York Times & Wall Street Journal #1 Bestselling Co-author of The One Minute Entrepreneur
About Never Delegate Again
If you’re open to it, Never Delegate Again will challenge and revolutionize how you lead. It might even change the way you think about your role entirely. And that’s exactly the point.
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach · New York Times Bestselling Author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
About Never Delegate Again
This book punches through the noise with heart, humility, and hard truths. Brad Federman offers a game-changing vision: when you grow people first, everything else follows. This is what modern leadership looks like.
David Meltzer
Chairman of The Napoleon Hill Institute, Speaker & Investor
About Never Delegate Again
Never Delegate Again is the leadership refresh we've been waiting for. Brad Federman flips the old 'pass-the-task' playbook on its head and shows you how to turn every assignment into a growth accelerator—for your people, your culture, and your bottom line. If you care about building trusted, empowered teams that thrive in our AI-accelerated, disruption-rich world, read this book, dog-ear it, and keep it within arm's reach.
Mitchell Levy
Global Credibility Expert & Executive Coach
About Never Delegate Again
Never Delegate Again turns traditional delegation on its head. Brad Federman reframes leadership as a growth journey—not a task list. If you care about developing people instead of just directing them, this book delivers.
Alain Hunkins
Author of Cracking the Leadership Code
About Never Delegate Again
Voices from Clients & Colleagues

Three decades of partnerships across industries.

Hospitality, healthcare, logistics, financial services, manufacturing, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 leadership teams — a sampling of the leaders Brad has worked alongside.

As our organization continues to grow and mature, we sought an external HR partner to support us with Interim HR management, sourcing and recruiting new HR leadership, and conducting a comprehensive scan of our HR environment. Aspire and PerformancePoint quickly stepped in, providing dedicated attention, clear communication, and high energy throughout the process. Not only did they successfully fill the role, but they also remained engaged afterward, offering ongoing support whenever needed.
Jeroen Palsrok
Chief Operating Officer, Base Logistics
Highline Warren has grown rapidly over the past eight years, integrating 15 different companies — each with its own history and unique culture. Performance Point was the perfect partner to help us gain insights from our teammates, customers and vendors and develop a framework that honored our legacy companies while providing clear direction for the future of Highline Warren.
Jonas Croft
CHRO, Highline Warren
As Agape continues to grow while navigating this 'new world' work environment, we asked Brad to help lead and support our desire to continue to grow a strong culture. Brad has brought evidence-based practices with extensive knowledge to our team that has given us confidence as we move forward. He contextualizes the work to match our agency values and mission.
David Jordan
President & CEO, Agape
We were in need of a partner to help us with our employee engagement efforts. We found one. Brad Federman and the PerformancePoint team rock! They have helped us with our survey process, gain insights from the data, and most importantly supported us in our action planning to make a difference and meaningfully respond to our team members.
Becky Parisi
Vice President Human Resources, Metal Exchange
Brad Federman has an amazing ability to communicate concepts in a very conversational way. He is a master storyteller who understands how we all truly process 'best practices.' None of what Brad preaches is purely theoretical. His practical advice clearly delineates the necessary steps for any organization to follow. Brad's guidance is priceless!
Paul Geiger
Executive Communication Advisor
Brad Federman is a leading expert in driving performance by helping clients more clearly understand the critical linkage between associate engagement and customer satisfaction. PerformancePoint resources and Brad's inspiring presentations have been among our most popular Convention education sessions.
Ralph Thiergart
VP, Education and Professional Development, AAHOA
Brad delivered a powerful, interesting, creative and meaningful presentation. What I appreciated the most about Brad and his content and ideas is that I was able to apply what I had received that same day…what a gift!
Franklin Sullivan
SVP, Channel Strategy and Execution, ABB Electrification
Brad is an outstanding facilitator/consultant who combines leadership expertise with practical experience. He understands the complex demands of leadership and can draw people out to challenge them both personally and professionally to become stronger leaders.
Thonda Boals Barnes
Leadership Development Consultant, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Brad's approach is practical, business oriented and well thought out. He listens, observes and gets people to respond. He follows up with encouragement, but holds folks accountable to themselves.
Peggy Gann
Retired HR/Organization Development Executive
Brad Federman is an extraordinarily talented facilitator. I watched with admiration as he inspired, entertained, controlled, and taught a high-powered room of leaders and executives. Engagement is Brad's expertise, and I enthusiastically recommend him.
Russell Ingram
Chief Operating Officer, Epicenter Memphis
Brad is a very experienced consultant that also possesses great teaching skills, that allows him to drive his message masterfully on Top Level audiences. Brad is a great asset to any organization looking to dramatically improve its results.
Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Managing Partner, Strategic Practice
Brad brings a plethora of knowledge and creativity to our team. His keen sense of assisting us with understanding people and their goals has helped my team deliver the results desired by our stakeholders.
Jemel Jones
Senior Recruiting Partner
He was engaged to assist in the removal of barriers that are preventing optimal performance of our divisional leadership team. His creative and flexible style facilitated raw discussions between our team members which began our journey to better communication. I highly recommend Brad without reservation.
Dan Lee
VP, CFO Europe, Superior Industries
Brad is more than a facilitator and a consultant. He is a valued resource that can stand toe to toe in the board room with the executive leadership of an organization. Brad is a thought provoking, truth teller that gets results.
Mark F. Magnacca
Founder and CEO
Brad is an engaging leader with great interpersonal skills. He is professional in all interactions and helps people feel valued in the workplace. He is creative and strategic in creating tailored solutions for his clients.
Terry Robert
VP of Marketing, Zenger Folkman
I have had the pleasure of working with Brad on a couple of projects/presentations for our company-wide meetings. He is engaging, consistent and receives rave reviews from his participants. We will definitely be bringing Brad back!
Brenda Raley, CHA
Chief People Officer, Regenrus
Brad partnered with me before the workshop to ensure the material was tailored and relevant to my organization so that managers would walk away with very practical and actionable tools they could apply immediately back on the job.
Leslie Germond
Sr. Human Resource Business Partner, Caliper Life Sciences
Brad established a good rapport with the employee and provided good insight to both the employee and his managers. He did such a good job that employees talked about it for weeks after the event!
Debra Gates
Managing Director, Community Funding, Evolve Bank & Trust
Over the past several years Brad has been a great coach helping me develop a 'Trusted Advisor' relationship with the teams I work with. Brad is very knowledgeable and a great trainer — he will help you to be more valuable to your organization.
Jim Wogsland
Director of Brand Performance Support, Hilton
Brad presented at our meeting and was the highlight of the day. They left his seminar motivated and excited to start with a new direction. We will continue to work with Brad in our future meetings.
Scott Gericke
Senior Operations Executive, Hospitality
Brad made a presentation to our senior management team on the value of Associate Engagement. His knowledge of the subject, his passion, and his ability to relate the concepts to his audience was wonderful.
Mike Zorn
Senior Executive
Brad Federman worked with us on coaching one of our general managers in developing communication, team building and time management skills. We saw a significant and ongoing improvement in this individual's professional performance.
Ken Thompson
Executive Vice President
Federman has positioned himself as the lightning rod for this topic by really landing the 'plane' with this book. He uses the science 'behind the curtain' in order to help us understand the 'art' of building employee engagement.
Todd Zaugg
CEO, Matrix Achievement
Brad has shown us a new way to approach driving results with our hotel partners using behavior change. Establishing trust and engagement first has led to greater results.
Dawn Koenig
Vice President, Homewood Suites by Hilton
Brad's employee engagement seminars for our hotel general managers have been outstanding. He is an engaging speaker that connects with his audience and really motivates behavior changes.
Chris Malone
Senior Hospitality Executive
Brad Federman has worked with our organization on many occasions and has always provided an exceptional experience. He is truly a best-in-class facilitator, speaker and trainer who always challenges the participants to think in new and different ways.
Gina Morgan
VP, People Director, Wunderman Thompson
Brad is an incredibly gifted and insightful individual who has the ability to quickly assess and understand virtually any business situation. His character and ethics shine through his work.
Kevin Fleming
District Manager, Edwards Safety
Brad has a huge amount of knowledge about employee engagement and was always happy to share. With Brad's help, we were able to deliver an improved survey, and as importantly, put in place a clear Action Plan for our business.
David Fisk
Co-Founder & Joint Managing Partner, In The Philippines LLC
Brad delivers actionable, process oriented content in an engaging manner. He is personable and truly listens. As a result he is able to provide helpful advice that helps his clients boost productivity.
Tonya Jernberg
Director of Education & Professional Development, Rossi and Taylor Group
I have reached out to Brad on different occasions to provide training on various topics to our staff. Each session has been excellent. He presents the material in a fun and interactive way, but also in a manner that allows you to apply it to your every day work activities.
Brian Cowart
Sr. Director, ALSAC / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
We had some really challenging leadership trust issues to work through, and Brad's guidance was critical in helping us overcome those issues and regain the employees' trust in our senior leadership.
Mike Cooney
Senior Executive
Brad has created cutting edge engagement and leadership programs that make organizational leaders want to sign up yesterday. His unique approach to engagement in the workforce makes him a pioneer in the field. He's the real deal!
Deborah A. Felton
Leadership Consultant
Brad was ranked by our group as one of the best speakers that we have had. Brad was not only engaging, but also creative in his delivery of 'The Power of Successful Relationships.'
Austin Baker
President, HRO Partners
Brad is a masterful presenter. He does his homework thoroughly, immediately capturing audience attention, engaging them with relevant stories, anecdotes, humor — and POW! Landing a message that's totally on point.
Shelley Baur
Founder, Integrity-Based Communications
Brad is one of the most knowledgeable subject experts in the field of Organizational Development and Thought Leadership that I have worked with in my professional career. While always a professional, he is, more importantly, a genuine person of high character.
Tim Gunter
Senior HR Executive
Brad is an outstanding Human Resources/Organization Development consultant and business owner. His goal is to always ensure complete client satisfaction for any work he or his team has performed.
Keith Allen
Senior HR Consultant
Brad brings a lot of value to any project he works on and he is a joy to work with. Brad is able to establish trust through his integrity, consistency and high level of commitment and energy he brings to every project.
Sean Murray
CEO, RealTime Performance, Inc. · Host, The Good Life Podcast
Brad rocks! The work he did had a profound impact. Thanks Brad.
Zachary Rosenberg
Exec. VP, General Manager, Horizon Media
Just wanted to say a BIG thank you. You were truly incredible and your direction, leadership, feedback, and coaching was invaluable. All day today, I kept looking over my shoulder for that 'whisper' of questions that I should be asking.
Liz Engelsen
SVP, Head of Innovation
Rick made the comment that he didn't feel we were getting someone else's stuff. Cindy also appreciates the way you listen to us and make the changes we want instead of force feeding us something you've already created. I rest easy at night knowing you are a part of my team.
Pam Meiners
Director Customer Relationship & Service Integration, Embassy Suites Hotels
None of this would have been possible without you! You inspire us. At every step, you were gracious, engaging and caring to all of our attendees, and you made a big difference in the event and in their lives.
Rick McCue
Vice President, Brand Performance & Support, Embassy Suites Hotels
Thanks so much for such an outstanding presentation on employee engagement. Brad — you were terrific. The only way to improve is to be able to take Brad home in your pocket.
David Williams
Executive Director, Leadership Memphis
Brad is one of the best thought leaders I have ever had the pleasure to work with. He is always on the leading edge of Human Performance Strategies. I would recommend him to any client looking to partner with a consultant that provides measurable results!
Tom McKenzie
Senior Executive
Brad consulted with my team at Homewood Suites several times. It's rare that someone can stretch your mind to a new idea and then motivate you to make changes. Brad did exactly that. I am a better consultant today because of his teachings.
Toni Jacaruso
Hospitality Consultant
It was a pleasure working with Brad in the design of an employee engagement survey for our company. He was generous in sharing his knowledge and diligent in ensuring we made decisions that would benefit the company with actual results. I experienced him as one of those rare consultants who is truly a trustworthy advisor.
Rebecca Perry
Senior HR Leader
Brad is incredibly insightful. He provided our team with the guidance and knowledge to strip habits that hindered our client relationships, and learned the attributes to become a Trusted Advisor.
Christina Ocampo
Senior Partner Development Manager, Amazon Ads
Brad provided Employee Engagement Survey consulting to our company. He provides results according to agreed upon dates, fair pricing. He possesses an engaging communication style and is very trustworthy and consistent.
Carol Ward, SHRM-SCP
Senior HR Executive
Brad helped us implement an in-house training program for our technicians. He also helped us develop a management training program and revamped our hiring and performance review process. We could not have undertaken these tasks without Brad's help and we're a much better company for it.
Chris Bird
Chairman, The Dillard Companies
Brad helped us to implement a behavior based interviewing methodology nationwide. With his expertise, we trained over 1,000 people in three months and had a very successful implementation. I strongly recommend Brad.
Kent Kirch
Global Director of Talent Acquisition

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