EXECUTIVE COACH | NAT WARREN-WHITE

Nat Warren-White, MA, RDT is a Senior Consultant and Coach at The Ariel Group where he has designed and led programs in areas such as leadership, presence, team-building and coaching for corporate and not-for-profit clients around the world. Nat’s background includes over 20 years experience as a management consultant, actor, teacher, director, and executive coach. His clients include C-level executives and leaders from Deloitte, KPMG, Norsk Hydro, Société Générale, General Electric, Capital One, the NGO OceansWatch and the Executive Education Programs at Columbia, Harvard and Northwestern Universities.

As one of the most senior and experienced Ariel coaches Nat has been invited to work with top executives in the United States, Europe and Asia. His coaching approach draws on his early training in theater as an actor, director and teacher.  He has taught at the university level since the early 70′s working with graduate and undergraduate students in arts-based and conservatory programs, including the Boston and New England Conservatories, Emerson College, the College of the Atlantic, Lesley University and the Babson MBA Creativity Stream.

Nat specializes in leadership, inter-personal, and presentation-based coaching. He encourages clients to take responsibility for their own development process and believes strongly in a 360 degree feedback approach.  He feels the ultimate satisfaction comes from going deep quickly, and following-up with disciplined practice that ultimately creates lasting change.

RECENT COACHING ASSIGNMENTS:

• CEO, European Investment Bank
  Long-term engagement with CEO of European investment bank. Support ranged from communication skills to interpersonal relationship management as well as appearance and personal presence work.

• Senior Partner and Managing Director, International Consulting Firm.
  Coaching support ranged from communication skills to leadership and interpersonal communication development as well as specific content-related brainstorming and writing for internal and external messaging.

• CFO, European Investment Bank
  Coaching focused primarily on interpersonal relationships and personal presence goals.

• President, Large Bank Office
  Development goals ranged from presence and communication skills related to specific business messaging.

• CEO, Global Travel Corporation
  Ongoing coaching relationship with CEO of global travel corporation.  Support ranges from leadership presence, platform communication skills to specific voice work for managing remote teams by phone.

• CEO, Software Company
  Long-term engagement with CEO of Boston-based software firm in the general area of leadership presence.  Focus ranged from relaxation skills to communication skills and content-related speech development.

• Various Executives, Major US Credit Card Company
  Held 3 year relationship with a major US credit card company coaching various executives.  Support with in-person, video-conferencing and phone-based meeting facilitation and communication skills.

• CEO, Global Environmental NGO
  Support ranging from effective communications skills to written and graphic content of PR materials.  Major focus on developing storytelling skills, both live and in print.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

• M.A., Drama Therapy, Lesley University, Boston, MA

• B.A.,Theatre, Wesleyan University , Middletown, CT

ADDITIONAL AREAS OF COMPETENCE:

• Registered Drama Therapist, National Association of Drama Therapists

• Certified in the delivery of Ariel Group Experiential workshops in Leadership Presence.

• Experienced in facilitating senior level team meetings.

• Experienced at designing and implementing in-depth OD interventions which involve deep assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of leadership teams and designing appropriate coaching and workshops to implement needed change.