JUST WHO IS ELI AMDUR ANYWAY?
Journalism
A well-established, prolific journalist, Eli has been authoring a weekly column on job market and workplace issues since 2003. The column began in North Jersey Media Group, now part of the Gannett/USA Today network. He has appeared in papers elsewhere in the US. Since 2020, Eli is a regular contributor to Forbes.com, writing on leadership issues, job market, and jobs/work of the future. See: www.forbes.com/sites/eliamdur
In 2011, Eli published his book – It’s Not So Far From Here to There: The Thinking Person’s Guide to a Well-Managed Career – which went through five printings.
In endorsing Eli’s book, FDU’s beloved late president, Dr. J. Michael Adams, said, “Eli Amdur is my favorite pragmatic intellectual who always connects the dots of a complex world in a manner that delivers new, valuable insights and wisdom.” Eli has begun sketching out a new book, What Fifty Years in Business Have Taught Me.
He was one of six speakers selected by FDU in 2013 to deliver a TEDx talk. You can view it – “The World in 2050: Are you ready?” – on YouTube.
Corporate
As Senior Coach and Advisor at Amdur Coaching and Advisory Group, LLC (founded in 1997), Eli provides individual coaching as well as advisory services to corporate leaders on matters of leadership, team building, creative thinking, and executive communication. He has served clients in 25 different industries and has led engagements in Israel, Europe, and North America.
Eli held sales positions in two global office electronics companies: Casio (Japan) and Olympia (Germany), later holding a directorship at the American affiliate of a French-led global network of companies. Before taking over the role of US Director of Business Development, Eli represented the firm to 125 Japanese clients and 30 foreign consulates and trade commissions.
Before starting his business career, Eli was a junior high school English teacher for three years. Then, after working in the corporate world for the next 25 years, he decided he had put up with working for others long enough. One morning in late May 1997, his life changed in a split second, when the idea of his own coaching practice sprang into his head. Two hours later, he registered Amdur Coaching – and the rest is history.
Academia
At Fairleigh Dickinson University – where he received the 2007 Faculty Member of the Year Award (the only adjunct faculty ever so honored); the 2010 Stratis Castle Award for lifetime dedication, service, and contribution to FDU; the 2013 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Medal of Honor; and the 2014 Presidential Citation – he was adjunct professor of two graduate-level leadership courses from 2003 to 2018. He taught in both the MBA and MAS programs. In addition, he was faculty advisor for Business Leaders of Tomorrow and for FDU’s United Nations programs. He is also the originator and co-founder of the highly acclaimed “Sands of Time” program, a cultural, social, and intellectual out-of- classroom enrichment experience that has contributed to the personal growth of more than 1,100 students and 150 alumni, faculty, and staff since its inception in Fall 2008. While teaching, he concurrently served as Senior Executive Fellow and Executive-in-Residence in the Center for Healthcare Management Studies and he co-founded the Institute for Life Sciences Leadership.
Personal
Eli is an avid reader, a “pretty good” guitar player (a Jerry Garcia wannabee), a devotee of music from classical to American folk and rock, once jammed with John Lennon (it was an accident), and survived the bombing of a building in which he was housed (8 months old). Born and raised in the metropolitan New York area, he has traveled extensively but still lives only 15 miles from his birthplace. Why not? It’s nice here.
I am a success only when you are.
Coaching
