Chatham helps his clients develop a rich and meaningful understanding of the their organizations. He believes that at the end of the day clients own and are responsible for their own decisions and actions. Chatham's consulting work supports his clients as they develop their own ability to constructively engage and address the problems and opportunities their organizations face. A successful engagement is one in which clients can apply their learning from the consulting experience into the future.

In addition to his work at CFAR, Chatham is a member of the faculty at the Aresty Institute of Executive Education as well as the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches negotiation, leadership, and organizational change. Chatham maintains an active interest in leadership, strategy, and teams, writing frequently on these topics: his article, "The Power of Small Leadership," forthcoming in the 2009 Pfeiffer Leadership Annual, explores the inconspicuous but often crucial moments of day-to-day leadership. Chatham also won the 2008 Harold Bridger Award from the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations for his paper on the psychology of strategy.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Social Architecture — Develops structures and processes that allow organizational decision makers to come together around critical strategic issues.
• Organizational Diagnosis — Creates with clients a shared understanding of the organizational system, its dilemmas and key concerns.
• Organizational and Group Development — Enhances the capability of social systems to thoughtfully engage their work and produce needed change.

Recent Projects

• For an architecture firm, supporting an owner and leadership transition from first to second generation.
• For a large university hospital, consulting to client to build new multi-departmental behavioral health system
• For a large managed health care organization, created leadership development program tailored specifically to the business and organizational issues of the company's regional CEOs.

Professional Facts

Doctorate in Organizational Psychology from Rutgers University

Selected Writing

"Leader as Storyteller." Chapter 23 in Section 6: Creative Approaches to Developing Leaders -- Pushing the Boundary in Noel, James (Jim) and David Dotlich (eds.). The 2008 Pfeiffer Annual: Leadership Development. San Francisco: Pfeiffer, 2008,

"Countertransference and parallel process analysis in organizational research and consultation"
Published in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 38 (3), pp. 375 — 392.