Nate Bennett is the Catherine W. and Edwin A. Wahlen Professor of Management at Georgia Tech’s College of Management.  He earned his Ph.D. in Management from Georgia Tech and his MA and BA from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA.  He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1999 after spending ten years in a variety of roles at Louisiana State University’s Ourso College of Business Administration.  During his first eight years at Tech he served as the Senior Associate Dean and was responsible for the College’s executive and graduate programs.

He has won numerous awards for his teaching in MBA and executive degree programs and has participated in executive development programs for managers from firms such as Microsoft, AT&T, St. Jude Medical, The Centers for Disease Control, Delta Airlines, Eastman Kodak, Intel, Motorola, PWC, Saab, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, EMC, Earthlink, Hewlett-Packard, GE Energy, Turner Industries, Acuity Brands, GE Health Systems, the FBI, NASA, Georgia Pacific, Coca Cola, Schlumberger, UPS, The Home Depot, Scientific Atlanta, and IBM. 

His current research focuses on the effectiveness of top management teams as well as the relationships between top management team members and the board.  His research has been published in the Harvard Business Review, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Journal of Applied Psychology among others and featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Toronto Globe and Mail, the Guardian, the Financial Times, and the Age and on CBS News.

He is co-author, with Stephen Miles, of a book titled “Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO” (Stanford University Press).  The two are co-authors of the forthcoming Stanford University Press title “Your Career Game.”