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Nathaniel Grotte
Senior Consultant
Oak Park IL USA
Get in TouchNathaniel (Nat) Grotte is an expert in leadership and leadership development who designs comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, and experiential leadership programs to support executive success and impact. 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, in alignment with WittKieffer’s mission to improve the lives of people and communities through impactful leadership.
Nat’s representative client impact includes:
- Designing and leading a multi-cohort leadership academy for a regional health system, built around action learning projects sponsored by the executive team;
- Guiding the CEO and senior leaders of a nonprofit health services organization through a multi-phase visioning and culture effort;
- Advising the senior executive teams of a large integrated health system as they defined each team’s role, decision rights, and long-range strategy;
- Designing and teaching modules for physician leadership programs at health systems and a national medical specialty society;
- As part of a CEO succession engagement, assessing senior executives of a major manufacturing company and providing strategic recommendations to the holding entity.
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, where he created Chicago Booth’s first online leadership courses. 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
DiSC 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
Publications
- Field Observations on Physician Leader Development
- Developing Physician Leaders: A Leadership Lens Approach
- Vision Quest: How Physician Leaders Can Build Strategic Muscles
- Beyond the Bedside: Operational Excellence as a Core Competency for Physician Leadership
- An Essential Leadership Vehicle: Your Relational Lens
- Empathy in Physician Leadership: Current Insights and Strategies
- Physician Leadership and Engagement: A Critical Priority for Healthcare