About Opher
Opher Brayer
Talent Development expert, Business Mentor, Coach, Teacher, Methodologist and Creator.
Opher’s history is intertwined with the history of his native Israel. During his early years, he witnessed holocaust refugees fighting for their survival against the enemies surrounding them. Later on, he experienced the military glory of Israel and the country’s admiration for its military rise. Following that, he helped grow the advanced generation of talents in the fields of arts, science, and business. Some were involved later in cyber technology and security in the 8200 unit and then they went on to grow the startup business environment in Israel.
Since 1984, Opher has been researching, constructing, and applying unique methodologies, which have demonstrated that people can develop multi-disciplinary talent and the innovators’ mind contrary to the popularly held concept that talent is “natural” and “inborn”.
Talent Development expert, Business Mentor, Coach, Teacher, Methodologist and Creator
Opher’s history is intertwined with the history of his native Israel. During his early years, he witnessed holocaust refugees fighting for their survival against the enemies surrounding them. Later on, he experienced the military glory of Israel and the country’s admiration for its military rise. Following that, he helped grow the advanced generation cyber technology and security 8200 unit in the Israeli Army, and then went on to grow the startup business environment in Israel.
Since 1984, Opher has been researching, constructing, and applying unique methodologies, which have demonstrated that people can develop multi-disciplinary talent, contrary to the popularly held concept that talent is “natural”.
Combining his passions for music and education
As a jazz musician and teacher who founded the jazz department of Thelma Yellin High School of the Fine Arts in Israel, he raised an impressive number of local and international world-class professional musicians, using his multi-talent development method. In this Ted Talk, one of his students, internationally renowned pianist Yaron Herman explains Opher’s teaching:
Creativity, flexibility and mathematics
Creativity, flexibility, and mathematics are what led Opher to work on diverse and unique projects worldwide; Opher has taught alongside a pioneer of business intelligence theory and founder of the Academy of Business Intelligence, Professor Ben Gilad, in FULD, Boston as well as did training, executive coaching, business, and management consulting for startups as well as multinational companies.
He has also developed dozens of unique methodologies and processes for developing the talent and potential in individuals and groups by using three main models: Talent Development, Management Strategies, and Personal Business Relationships. The system enhances the management skills for individuals themselves and when within their workspace, using his unique model known as Coaching By Measurement. Watch Opher speak about the Talent Model on TEDx:
The Stages Program
In 2007, he initiated the “STAGES” program, which brought more than 2,000 children from various socio-economic groups and introduced them to the process of acquiring multi-disciplinary talent as well as the Innovators mind, training the new generation for 2030, 2040 challenges. Opher created various courses for teachers, parents, and professionals in the education system. The programs have phenomenal success as for the extraordinary results with the children and the teachers and gained high recognition governments as well as the European Commission.
Opher was both a mentor and a member of the advisory board for the Unistream program. Unistream is an Israeli organization that brings about social change by empowering teens from unprivileged communities to build and run their own startups and become entrepreneurs.
Today, Opher assists leading CEOs and industrialists with dedicated management strategies, he supports processes in management strategies and innovation, shares expertise in establishing large class, and supports startups. He is coaching multiple individuals with his unique methodology Coaching By Measurement
His goal now is to share his 40 years knowledge of training in business and education with the younger generations and the teachers of the future.
Companies Opher has worked with:
