Pontish Yeramyan

Pontish Yeramyan is the CEO and founder of Gap International, a global management consulting firm whose purpose is Transforming Organizations Transforming the World. Believing that she can help organizations deliver their most ambitious futures, Ms. Yeramyan has dedicated her life to individuals and corporations making a difference in the world and going beyond the limits of what they see possible. In partnership with senior organizational leaders, she is redefining the 21st century organization, bringing purpose, passion for growth, relentless innovation, customer oneness, and breakthrough performance environments to organizations.

For almost 40 years, Ms. Yeramyan has worked with CEOs of FORTUNE and Global 500 companies in leading major growth initiatives that change the performance trajectory of organizations through empowering their people. Her belief that every person has genius within them has driven her to create groundbreaking programs in organizational alignment and leveraging the power of people. Ms. Yeramyan has brought innovative thinking to leadership through her consulting and coaching and has personally impacted hundreds of executives and leadership teams over the course of her career, measurably and dramatically improving their financial, market and organizational performance.

Ms. Yeramyan has long believed that everything happens because of the way you think—and she brings that philosophy to everything she does, including her involvement in her community and organizations she holds close. Her dedication to making a difference has extended to consulting with the Commissioner and executive team of the Delaware’s State Prison System as well as the Diocese of the Armenian Church. Over the years, Ms. Yeramyan has been recognized as one of the top 50 Women Business in Pennsylvania and has received the Corporate Vision Award from Girls Inc. She is a major contributor to the Hunger Project, a global organization committed to ending world hunger. She serves on the Board of Directors for FAR, a non-profit organization that is committed to making life brighter through the long-term economic growth and social development of Armenia, and she has been a mentor in the Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership.

Before starting Gap International, Ms. Yeramyan was instrumental in establishing the English as a Second Language Department at Temple University and later consulted family-held businesses through The Wharton Applied Research Center. Ms. Yeramyan has also been a contributing writer to BusinessWeek.com, Forbes.com and the Huffington Post where she often writes on the subject of how liberating people in their thinking frees them to invent new solutions.

Ms. Yeramyan received a B.A. in psychology and linguistics from Barnard College of Columbia University and an M.A. in linguistics from Michigan State University.