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

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. He is a managing director with PwC U.S., based in New York. He is also the founder of the Katzenbach Center at Strategy&, a center of excellence in the areas of organizational culture, leadership, informal organization and motivation. Over the course of his career, Katzenbach has become a recognized in counseling, as a CEOs and corporate leaders. His work in CEO successions includes facilitating transitions for a number of leading businesses.

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Before founding Katzenbach Partners LLC, Katzenbach was a director with

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

. 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. While with McKinsey, Jon served executives of leading companies. He also served many public institutions, including

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, the

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

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and graduated with distinction from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

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

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

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as a Lt (jg) in the Pacific on the USS Whetstone (LSD 27) and on the USS Nicholas (DDE 449).The Katzenbach Center at Booz & Company 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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