Andrew Block is a former Fortune 500 executive, CHRO, board advisor, executive coach, and CEO and Founder of Block Performance.
For more than 25 years, Andrew has helped leaders, teams, and organizations navigate growth, transformation, transition, and complexity. Today, he advises CEOs, CHROs, boards, C-suite executives, and senior leadership teams on the leadership, team, talent, culture, and organizational capabilities required to turn strategy into performance.
Known for combining senior operating experience with practical insight and candid perspective, Andrew serves as a trusted advisor, executive coach, facilitator, and thought partner to leaders across industries and organizational settings.
Executive Background
Andrew brings more than 25 years of experience leading, advising, coaching, and developing leaders across complex organizations.
Prior to founding Block Performance, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at ABM Industries and as 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.
His experience spans Fortune 500 companies, high-growth businesses, private equity-backed organizations, nonprofits, and organizations navigating growth, transformation, mergers and acquisitions, leadership transitions, and changing market conditions.
Having served as both a senior operator and advisor, Andrew brings a practical understanding of how strategy, leadership, talent, teams, culture, and organizational systems come together to drive business performance.
Leadership & Organizational Performance
Andrew has spent his career working at the intersection of business strategy, leadership, talent, teams, culture, and organizational performance.
He advises leaders on issues including leadership effectiveness, executive transitions, senior-team performance, succession and bench strength, talent strategy, organizational design, culture, strategic alignment, and enterprise transformation.
His perspective is grounded in a simple belief: sustainable performance is created when strong leaders, high-performing teams, and effective organizational systems reinforce one another.
Through Block Performance, Andrew works with clients to strengthen those capabilities and help turn strategic priorities into measurable progress.
Executive Coaching & Advisory
Andrew is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and an experienced advisor to senior executives.
His coaching and advisory work is practical, confidential, and grounded in the real challenges leaders face. He works with executives navigating new or expanded roles, high-stakes decisions, organizational change, team dynamics, leadership development, and the increasing complexity of senior leadership.
Andrew combines coaching with senior-executive perspective, asking the questions that help leaders think more clearly while also bringing experience, pattern recognition, and candid advice when it adds value.
The goal is not simply insight. It is stronger leadership, better decisions, increased capability, and forward movement on the outcomes that matter most.
Board Service
Andrew has more than a decade of experience working with boards and board committees on executive succession, CEO and senior-leader transitions, executive compensation, talent strategy, organizational performance, and other human-capital and governance matters.
He previously served on the Board of the NMDP Foundation and has completed the Certificate in Private Company Governance through the Private Directors Association.
Today, his work includes advising CEOs, senior executives, and boards on leadership, succession, executive effectiveness, and organizational performance.
Speaking & Executive Conversations
Andrew speaks and facilitates conversations on leadership, team performance, executive transitions, organizational performance, talent, culture, and the changing demands facing leaders and organizations.
Drawing on more than 25 years of executive and advisory experience, his approach combines real-world perspective, practical frameworks, and ideas leaders can immediately put to work.
Andrew is available for executive forums, leadership meetings, conferences, podcasts, panels, and other business and leadership events.
Education & Credentials
Andrew holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Relations from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
His professional credentials include:
- ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
- SHRM-SCP
- Hogan Assessment certification
- EQ-i 2.0 certification
- Certificate in Private Company Governance
Personal
Andrew and his wife, Jen, live in Florida. They have one adult daughter and enjoy travel, the arts, staying active, and spending time with family and friends.
Andrew is also a former member of the U.S. Army National Guard, where he served for six years and achieved the rank of Sergeant.
Connect with Andrew
Whether you are interested in executive advisory, coaching, speaking, board-related work, or exploring how Block Performance may be able to help your organization, Andrew welcomes the opportunity to connect.