Murray Palevsky

Group Leader & Mentor

Murray has excellent entrepreneurial experience as the President & CEO of Trilithon Construction Inc. in Montreal, a company he started in 1991 and continues to own. Trilithon specializes in design/build projects for industrial and commercial construction and the restoration of heritage buildings.

As an entrepreneur and business owner with over 30 years-experience, Murray brings rare insights into the CEO’s inner world and the business challenges facing leaders today.

Since 2008 Murray has been coaching executives in North America, Western Europe, and the Middle East in a broad range of industries including financial services, pharma, tech, legal, manufacturing and defense. His international success is attributed to his first-hand business experience plus his ability to speak five languages – French, English, Italian, German, and Hebrew.

For the past 15 years he has also coached executives through his association with INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France, KDVI, the Kets De Vries Institute in London, UK, Cambridge University, UK, IMD Business School, Switzerland, and the European School of Management & Technology (ESMT) Berlin.

Murray has a BA from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and an MBA from McGill.  He has also received Individual Training in Dynamic Psychotherapy at McGill University Teaching Hospital.  Murray received his Executive Masters at INSEAD, Consulting & Coaching for Change in Clinical Organizational Psychology, Magna Cum Laude.

Much of his leisure time is spent in Italy or salmon fishing in Canada.  He is a passionate cross-country skier in the winter months.

Murray and his wife Debra and their 3 adult children live in Montreal.

CEOs who have the opportunity to work with Murray will benefit from the depth and breadth of his experience and his commitment to helping CEOs succeed.