About Gord

Gord Sherwood is a counsellor, mentor and gifted adult who specializes in helping other gifted adults to better understand and to more successfully navigate many of the complex personal and professional challenges that are so very common to this population. With extensive experience as an organizational executive and organizational intelligence mentor, he is the founder of The H.I. Factor, a multidisciplinary and neurodiverse organization contributing to the advancement of a range of support and engagement programs specific to the global gifted community.

With a career history that began with entry-level positions, Gord excelled in advancing through levels of management to CEO and other senior executive positions across a number of industries. He now provides mentorship to expert-level organizational leaders, as well as experience-based support to highly gifted people at all stages of their careers.

Advancing Support and Engagement

Since discovering his own giftedness and realizing that all of those alignment challenges that had been so prevalent throughout his life were actually quite healthy and natural (or, as a psychologist once called them, “symptoms of extreme mental health”), he has been actively involved with a number of gifted communities, gifted organizations and gifted support professionals from around the world. He has created a local peer group that has attracted over 550 members, and is the founder of The H.I. Factor, working with a co-founding team of truly exceptional giftedness and organizational specialists on the development of a broad-based foundation for:

• Providing platforms and programs to facilitate gifted community peer connection and interaction.
• Providing gifted counselling, mentoring and psychotherapy support.
• Facilitating access to giftedness related articles, research papers and other information resources.
• Working with educators and practitioners to accelerating advancement in the areas of gifted education, gifted psychology and neuroscience.
• Advocating and facilitating truly integrated, balanced neurodiversity in the workplace.
• …and ultimately, with the involvement of other gifted adults with specific relevant experience, leveraging an acceleration of societal evolution through educational, mental healthcare and business organizations.