Jon Katzenbach - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Jon R. Katzenbach is a published author and consultant who is best known for his work on the informal organization

Informal organization

The informal organization is the interlocking social structure that governs how people work together in practice. It is the aggregate of behaviors, interactions, norms, personal and professional connections through which work gets done and relationships are built among people who share a common...

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Katzenbach is a senior partner in the New York office of Booz & Company

Booz & Company

Booz & Company is a global management consulting firm established in the United States in 1914. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world and one of the best consulting firms to work for by Consulting Magazine...

. Previously, he a founder of Katzenbach Partners

Katzenbach Partners

Katzenbach Partners was a small American management consulting firm. In 2009 it became a part of the global management consulting firm Booz & Co..Katzenbach Partners was founded in 1998 by former McKinsey & Company employee Jon Katzenbach....

LLC, a firm specializing in organization, leadership, workforce performance, and strategy. Over the last 10 years, he built Katzenbach Partners to be one of the leading management consulting firms through guiding the firm to deliver client impact across a range of industries and clients.

Over the course of his career, Katzenbach has become a recognized leader in counseling high profile CEOs and corporate leaders. His work in CEO successions includes facilitating transitions for a number of leading businesses.

History

Before founding Katzenbach Partners LLC, Katzenbach was a director with McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company, Inc. is a global management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management. McKinsey serves as an adviser to many businesses, governments, and institutions...

. Over more than 35 years at McKinsey, he led the firm’s San Francisco and New York offices and also served on many of the firm’s governance bodies. Specifically, he served as Chairman of several governance committees and was elected for multiple terms to the Shareholders’ Committee, the firm’s senior policy and governance body. He served on that committee for nearly 20 years. He was a senior leader of the firm’s organization practice. While with McKinsey, Jon served executives of leading companies in consumer products, energy, electronics, forest products, industrial products, medical products, and financial services. He also served many public institutions, including Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, the Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School is the business school of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students...

Advisory Council, and was instrumental in launching both the New York City Partnership and Miami 2000.

Katzenbach attended Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

and graduated with distinction from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

in 1954 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. He obtained his MBA from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

in 1959 where he was a Baker Scholar. Jon also served in the Navy during the Korean War

Korean War

The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

as a Lt (jg) in the Pacific on the USS Whetstone (LSD 27) and on the USS Nicholas (DDE 449).

Katzenbach has authored several leading articles and books, including Why Pride Matters More Than Money, Peak Performance, Teams at the Top, Real Change Leaders, The Myth of the Top Management Team, Firing Up the Front Line (with Jason A. Santamaria), The Discipline of Teams (with Douglas K. Smith) and the bestseller The Wisdom of Teams (also with Douglas K. Smith). Jon (with Booz & Company Partner Zia Khan) is currently writing The Informal Advantage, a book that discusses how leading organizations mobilize their informal organization to realize performance advantages.

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