Strat serves senior leaders as a thinking partner, advisor, facilitator, and coach. Widely published on leadership and organizational change, he understands the interplay of business and human dynamics. Strat is focused on change, learning, and growth—for individuals and organizations. He works where successful execution of business plans depends on people. Listed among 50 top coaches in the U.S., Strat co-authored The Wild West of Executive Coaching for Harvard Business Review. His 1993 study of the transformation of GE under Jack Welch, Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will, written with Noel Tichy, has been ranked among the 100 best business books ever written. Strat eventually decided to stop writing about organizations and start helping them. Since then, he has developed, tested, and refined, unique methods to deliver results for clients such as Cardinal Health, American Express, GE Crotonville, Google, The New York Times, Dow Jones, and startup CEOs in Silicon Valley. He has taught leadership and large-scale organizational change to executives on six continents.
Strat received a BA in English from Harvard College. He and his wife divide their time between California and Connecticut.
