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Jon Katzenbach is is a senior partner at Strategy& (Formerly Booz & Company) and leads The Katzenbach Center, where new approaches in leadership, culture and organizational performance are developed.

Before founding Katzenbach Partners, Katzenbach was a director with McKinsey & Company. Kaztenbach led the firm’s San Francisco and New York offices and also served on many of the firm’s governance bodies^[1]. 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, Katzenbach 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 Advisory Council, and was instrumental in launching both the New York City Partnership and Miami 2000.

Katzenbach attended Brigham Young University and graduated with distinction from Stanford University in 1954 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. He obtained his MBA from Harvard University in 1959 where he was a Baker Scholar. Jon also served in the United States Navy during the Korean War as a Lt (jg) in the Pacific on the USS Whetstone (LSD 27) and on the USS Nicholas (DDE 449)^[2].

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)^[3]. Katzenbach is a founding partner of Katzenbach Partners which became part fo the global management consultancy Strategy& in 2009 ^[4].

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[1] List of McKinsey & Company people

[2] Strategy& Official Biography

[3] A Katzenbach Reader|Fast Company

[4] Strategy& Completes Combination with Katzenbach Partners

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