Nat’s early career experiences and success as an entrepreneur and executive laid the groundwork for his interest in collaboration, organizational networks, and knowledge management. Today, along with his CFAR colleagues, he helps clients understand and address intractable issues that don’t respond to traditional business tools and methods. Nat looks at problems holistically, recognizing that in any organization, alliance, or team, there are many factors that come into play in creating the challenges that become the visible symptoms of the problem.

Nat brings 25 years of experience to CFAR: first, building and leading two small, high performing technology organizations and more recently consulting to companies in a variety of industries and helping them improve organizational effectiveness, grow revenue, and increase innovation. Nat’s approach is based on uncovering, leveraging, and building critical, knowledge, expertise and relationships across and between organizations, groups, and individuals. Combining the disciplines of organizational network analysis, knowledge management, and collaboration, Nat’s passion is for helping clients to learn how to generate sustainable value.

Nat also believes that practice must be constantly updated and informed by both theory and real world experience.  To that end, Nat is active in a number of organizations involved in the theory and practice of network analysis, knowledge management, organizational design, and complex adaptive systems and he uses his learnings from his participation to improve his own practices and knowledge.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Strategy with Top Teams. Works with leaders and their teams to set direction
• Executive Coaching. Consults one on one with leaders facing critical decisions
• Organizational Development. Builds capabilities that support strategic directions
• Organizational Network Analysis. How to use the “network” lens to help senior leaders and organizations to improve performance, drive innovation, and improve collaboration.

Recent Projects

• For a Large Defense Contractor. Initiated the use of Communities of Practice across the supply chain organization in support of improved business development.
• For a Large Pharmaceutical Firm. Helped develop ways to measure collaboration in alliances that led to improved results.
• For a Residential Treatment Facility. Developed and implemented a network strategy focused on promoting the faculty as a national thought leader and key regional resource in the diagnosis and treatment of adolescent fire setting.

Professional Facts

 

Harvard Fellow, The Learning Innovation Laboratory, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Active member, The Network Roundtable, University of Virginia

Accredited Practitioner, Cognitive Edge Sensemaker Suite

CoFounder, Organizational Network Analysis Practice Group

MBA, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration

B.A. in Economics with a minor in Psychology from The University of Rochester