Matt Nathan provides consulting and advisory services to leading social ventures, socially-responsible corporations and education organizations on issues of strategy, marketing & branding, innovation, and leadership. Examples of Clients/Projects: ● Ashoka: Innovators for the Public -- the pioneering organization in the field of social entrepreneurship worldwide. Consulted to Ashoka's Youth Venture globally, and on Colorado programs. Advised Ashoka US, and individual Ashoka Fellows globally. ● Strategy & business development for a startup social network matching impact investors, entrepreneurs, and advisors. ● Branding for IDE (International Development Enterprises), which empowers millions of rural poor with micro-entrepreneurship. ● Branding for an award-winning social media software company with over 4M users, including most of the Fortune100. ● Business development for a crowdfunding platform serving early-stage social ventures. ● Facilitator for NASA planning sessions for major earth-imaging satellite program. ● Strategic advisor for various seed-stage ventures, including a P2P education platform, a fitness-oriented social network, clean-tech & LOHAS companies, and the Colorado affiliate of a TED-Prize-winning social change program. ● Strategy and communications for the Mississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative. ● Organization development/change strategies and facilitation for Boston Public Schools, Boulder Valley School District & other educational institutions. ● Communications & evaluation for US AID programs in Africa, the Brookings Institution, the Eurasia Foundation, and others. Matt Nathan has catalyzed, founded, and co-founded various social ventures and social innovation initiatives, including: ● Connecting Social Innovation 2010 (with multiple global partners) ● Sustainable Ventures Meetup (with W1sd0m) ● Dreams Camera Action! (with Ashoka) ● Away We Grow ● DifferenceWorks
Matt Nathan provided consulting, advisory, and leadership services to socially-responsible corporations, as well as to investors and entrepreneurs. ● Designed and delivered strategic innovation programs on four continents, engaging thousands of executives in collaborative change that led to dramatic improvements in growth and profitability. Clients included global Fortune 100 companies in consumer goods, information technology, industrial services, healthcare, financial services, electronics, and media. ● For a client investor, led a startup collaboration technology company from launch to acquisition by a publicly-traded corporation in seven months. ● Instructor, facilitator, and coach for Columbia Business School executive programs: strategic marketing, innovation, leadership, negotiation. ● Consulted to pioneering socially-responsible businesses in the early days of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement. Helped lead a regional association of businesses for social responsibility, which merged with others to create the national organization Business for Social Responsibility (BSR). ● Designed new models and methods for strategic analysis and for generating performance breakthroughs. Produced videos, websites, interactive tools.
● Advised the NYC Board of Education President's Task Force on an $8-Billion project redesigning how schools would be planned, financed, built, and maintained. ● Managed a fund providing technical assistance to reforestation projects in 40 countries. ● Planned, consulted to, and evaluated micro-enterprise and "fair trade" projects in rural India, when these approaches were being pioneered. ● Created the first volunteer and internship programs for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. ● Provided consulting services on international cultural exchange to corporations, major institutions, governments, and foundations. Clients included United Airlines, American Express, the Smithsonian, the Rockefeller Foundation. ● Served as staff to a national task force on US Cultural Diplomacy, which included corporate CEOs and top philanthropists, chaired by Alistair Cooke. ● Designed and facilitated quality improvement training for small-scale manufacturing companies in NYC as part of an economic development project. ● Led organizational diagnosis of 800-bed hospital & assisted living facility undergoing rapid change. ● Designed and implemented database management systems for several international organizations.
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Activities: Matt Nathan was awarded a grant by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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Activities: Matt Nathan was awarded the Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship for leadership development in cross-cultural understanding. As a Fellow, worked and conducted research on social change and social enterprise in India during 1982-84.
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