Walter Nusbaum
Speaker. Author. Executive Coach.
The voice behind The Nusbaum Group
Walter helps leaders build cultures where excellence becomes normal.
Walter Nusbaum is President of The Nusbaum Group, a keynote speaker, executive coach, and the author of "Do You Have What It Takes?" and "The Sink: Radical Transformation With One Small Change."
For more than 20 years, Walter has spoken to, coached, and trained leaders across the country. His work focuses on leadership development, organizational culture, employee engagement, communication, and the pursuit of excellence as a way of life.
Public bios and client testimonials consistently describe Walter as a rare communicator who can take complex leadership challenges and make them practical, memorable, and immediately useful. He has worked with organizations ranging from private firms to Fortune 100 companies and has spoken to audiences totaling more than 25,000 people.
Walter's academic background includes strategic management, philosophy, religious studies, and leadership development. He lives in Denton, Texas with his wife Stacey and their four children.
20+ years
speaking, coaching, and training leaders across the country
25,000+
leaders, teams, and audience members impacted
500+
keynotes and training events delivered
Since 2005
Has coached, advised and spoken to leaders in over 40+ industries
Signature ideas
The ideas that make Walter's work feel different in the room.
Leadership
Leadership is a mindset, not a title.
Walter helps people see leadership as identity and responsibility, not position, charisma, or authority alone.
Culture
Small things shape big outcomes.
From The Sink philosophy to everyday standards, he teaches leaders to leave things better than they found them.
Communication
Powerful communication changes performance.
Clients consistently describe Walter as direct, memorable, and unusually effective at helping people hear what matters.
Excellence
Normalization of Excellence.
The goal is not a short burst of motivation. It is creating cultures where high standards become normalized.
The team around the work
Additional leadership that supports training, coaching, and client engagement.
Stacey Nusbaum
Stacey Nusbaum is a Registered Nurse with a BSN and over 20 years experience in a wide variety of clinical settings. Her experience in the healthcare industry has given her the opportunity to attend to the many needs of patients and doctors as well as learning to work effectively with a wide variety of management teams in high stress environments.
Stacey spent 5 years working for the largest privately owned Third Party Administrator in the Southwest developing customized wellness solutions, cost management services and organizational trainings for a wide variety of companies both large and small. In 2013 Stacey joined The Nusbaum Group and has focused on coaching and training as a means to help people get to the next level of their personal and professional life.
With her background in coaching and training, her certification in the Social Styles Assessment Diagnostic along with her certification in workplace conflict mediation from the Mediation Training Institute, Stacey is uniquely skilled at helping leaders at all levels work more effectively with their customers and teams.
On a personal note, Stacey has competed in the sport of Triathlon for nearly 20 years and won 2nd Place in her division in her first Ironman distance race in 2015. She has shown herself to be an accomplished nurse, coach, trainer and athlete as well as a highly impactful speaker. Stacey understands what it takes to be successful no matter what you set your mind to.
Daren Martin
Dr. Daren Martin was born in Louisiana but spent most of his growing up years in Bangkok, Thailand. He started and ran his own company while working on his Master's degree and eventually his PhD in Psychology. After 20 years of running his own business he sold his company and began consulting Fortune 500 companies on Leadership, Company Culture, Sales Psychology and other topics. He has three grown children and is married to his beautiful wife Elise.
Dr. Daren Martin is the author of the bestselling A Company of Owners: Maximizing Employee Engagement, the hand drawn Whiteboard: Business Models That Inspire Action, Beached Whale: Learning to Swim in the New Ocean as well as The Sink: Radical Transformation With One Small Change co-authored with Walter Nusbaum.
Dr. Martin's thought leadership and change strategies in transforming companies earned him the title The Culture Architect. He acts as a Trusted Advisor to business leaders at companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small businesses to create Owner Cultures.
Kati Hanna
Kati Hanna is a seasoned marketing, operations, trainer, and strategic planning consultant and entrepreneur. She has held leadership roles at multiple consulting agencies as well as owned her own business. Kati's expertise includes marketing and sales consulting, organizational analysis, process improvement, leadership training, strategic planning, franchise development, leadership development, executive coaching, and strategic initiative implementation.
She has worked with over 200 growing companies across the country in her 25 years of consulting. Most of her efforts have focused on working with leadership teams to define goals and high-potential growth opportunities; managing key corporate initiatives, marketing efforts and organizational implementation.
As an executive coach, Kati serves as a confidential sounding board and advisor to CEOs and senior managers. She is known for her ability to provide important insight as well as concrete action plans for clients to accomplish their goals. This work includes utilizing a variety of self assessments, 360 assessments and ongoing individualized coaching. Kati knows how people tick and businesses function. Her goal is for both people and businesses to be successful.
As a trainer, Kati has designed and implemented many customized training and development programs for executive teams and emerging leaders. She has worked individually and corporately with executives from a broad spectrum of organizations and industries. Kati has extensive experience in both the B2B and B2C markets. She has been helping organizations develop their leaders and guiding organizations to leverage their existing people and processes to maximize performance and long-term impact.
Kati was the Managing Partner for two major industry growth initiatives for both the Christian publishing and Christian music industries. These industry projects included 22 Christian publishers and 19 Christian record labels. She was part of the founding franchise development team for ATS staffing that later sold to Randstad.
Kati's clients consistently describe her as insightful, nonjudgmental, challenging, incredibly honest and invested in their success.
Matt Seward
Matt is a 35 year veteran of growth strategy consulting and founded Innovative Partners in 1987. Much of the proprietary diagnostics and methodologies used by the Company and developed specifically for growth companies, were pioneered by him.
Matt has managed hundreds of growth strategy projects. Prior to beginning his business career, Matt pursued a career in political campaigning where he managed a successful campaign for United States Senate. He then served 3 years as Vice President of a large regional advertising and marketing agency.
Matt was co-founder of Inc. Magazine's Growth Strategy Consulting Group where he was a Senior Consultant and frequent speaker at Inc.'s national conferences.