Chad frequently serves as a Katzenbach Center Senior Advisor on client work with PwC/Strategy&. The Katzenbach Center is a center of excellence in the areas of organizational culture, leadership, informal organization and motivation.Specializing in helping organizations align strategy, operating model and culture to improve performance, Chad has guided multi-year engagements with global oil majors and multinational financial institutions. Formerly, Chad was at Principal at Katzenbach Partners where he worked from 2005-2008, before joining Booz & Company from 2008-2010 as part of the Katzenbach Partners acquisition.

Launched in the fall of 2015, the Hudson Valley Startup Fund is the first managed seed capital fund in the mid-Hudson region of New York State. HV Startup Fund brings together a seasoned group of local investors and entrepreneurs to support local, scalable startups in the critical early stage of development with capital, mentors and a valuable network of resources locally, nationally and internationally.

With a decade of helping clients lead major changes, Chad’s approach is grounded in the truth that most often people only support what they help create! Chad thrives when aiding groups at all levels in large organizations to build their own momentum around new ways of working together. He is passionate about creating the right team dynamics and is at the forefront of finding better and faster ways to spot and use a company’s own innovation ‘exemplars’ to lead change from within.

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Management Consulting. Focus areas include sales effectiveness, frontline performance and motivation, strategic agility.

Systematically built innovative sporting goods business by simultaneously developing the firm’s product lines, funding sources, operations, and creative television campaign in order to achieve major retail distribution

Led highly successful consumer acquisition and retention programs which efficiently identified and targeted relocating customers and prospects for Fortune 500 clients

Upgraded and/or landed new affluent household accounts for asset management program ($100,000-$1M in balances)

Recruited into Chase’s accelerated management program, integrating formal training with quarterly rotations