Mark Nadler
Partner
Mark B. Nadler is a Partner at Oliver Wyman-Delta, consulting to CEOs, boards, and senior executives of major corporations and institutions on effective leadership and organizational change. His clients represent a broad cross-section of industries from health care to financial services to manufacturing, with a particular focus on the media.
In recent years, much of Mark’s work has focused on improving the performance of private equity portfolio companies through assessment and coaching of CEOs, senior teams, and candidates for CEO, COO and CFO positions. He has worked with a range of public, private equity and academic boards on issues related specifically to CEO succession planning and implementation.
Mark speaks frequently on CEO effectiveness and succession best practices to groups such as the National Association of Corporate Directors and the University of Southern California annual Corporate Governance Summit, and has co-authored or contributed to more than half a dozen leading books on leadership and organizational change. Most recently, he authored the chapter on best practices in CEO succession for the book Boardroom Realities, scheduled for publication in early 2009 by Jossey-Bass Publishers and the Kravis Leadership Institute.
Before joining Delta in 1995, Mark worked a journalist for 22 years, including stints as a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal and as Vice President and Executive Editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. He has twice served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism.
