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.

Chatham recently finished his doctorate in organizational psychology from Rutgers University having completed a year long internship with CFAR as a Project Consultant. He returns to CFAR following a sabbatical in Wyoming where he spent four months as a fly fishing guide. Chatham maintains a lively academic curiosity in leadership, group and intergroup behavior. His approach with clients often focuses on surfacing the complex interconnections between traditional business outcomes such as operational execution and strategic capacity and the less tangible qualities such as the organizations culture, history and dynamics.

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

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