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Nathaniel Grotte
Consultant
Oak Park IL USA
Get in TouchNathaniel (Nat) Grotte is an expert in leadership and leadership education who has consulted, instructed, and written on senior-level executive concepts and strategies. He has a deep belief in individuals’ ability to develop their leadership skills through structured education that supports experiential knowledge and insight. Nat also believes in the power of leadership to effect change and aligns with WittKieffer’s mission to improve the lives of people and communities through impactful leadership.
Nat’s representative client impact includes:
- As part of a CEO succession engagement, assessing senior executives of a major manufacturing company and providing strategic recommendations to the holding entity;
- Training and coaching student and executive teams in varied academic and executive learning contexts;
- Creating tailored approaches to action learning to meet multiple learning objectives and client outcomes; and
- Creating Chicago Booth’s first online leadership courses, adapting graduate-level content for a general audience.
Prior to joining WittKieffer, Nat served as a leadership consultant for another international executive recruiting and advisory firm. In this role, he led project management for client-facing advisory engagements from conception through delivery, including customizing and conducting leadership assessments. He also contributed to in-house leadership development programs for the firm’s executives.
Nat brings over 15 years of experience in higher education, mostly from his time at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. There, he was most recently Director of Strategy and Operations for the Davis Center for Leadership. He was a founding member of the team that designed a leadership incubator that produced multiple alumni and student classes and programs. In earlier appointments at Booth, he was Senior Associate Director for Experiential Learning and Associate Director for the Center for Population Economics. He is the co-author of Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics and several academic articles.
A resident of Oak Park, Illinois, Nat enjoys cycling, refining pizza recipes, and taking long road trips with his family.
Distinctions
Executive Program for Emerging Leaders, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Financial Analysis for Nonfinancial Managers, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Hogan Assessment Certification
Education
Master of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Bachelor of Arts, English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin