Niko Canner

		Niko Canner
		New York

Niko Canner is a Senior Partner in Booz & Company’s organization and change leadership practice, and a member of the North America Management Team. He is based in the New York office, and works with a range of global clients.

Niko has advised leading companies in many industries, with a particular focus on the strategic and organizational questions that define the long-term evolution of large enterprises. He was named one of ten “new gurus” by Fortune magazine in November 2008, and is frequently quoted as a thought leader on management and business strategy in publications such as BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Niko’s work includes:

Engagement with the board and senior management of a leading financial company to define future scenarios and embed in the organization an approach to “dynamic strategy” that enables the organization to connect the dots on emerging trends and act ahead of competitors; work was recently featured in BusinessWeek’s special issue on “Managing Smarter”
Transformation of the U.S. division of a major global telco to deliver on a distinctive consumer brand and differentiate on the basis of retail and service excellence
Partnership with the CEO of one of the world’s largest hedge funds to develop organizational and leadership readiness to execute on the next phase of growth and navigate planned top leadership succession
Development of the twenty-year strategy for one of the leading US schools of public health, based on assessment of the likely evolution of the public health profession over the long-term and this institution’s unique capabilities and culture
Establishment of values, culture and core management processes for a major Korean multi-national driving global growth across a range of heavy industry businesses.

Niko has worked most extensively with clients in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and professional services industries.

Niko was co-founder and Managing Partner of Katzenbach Partners LLC, prior to the firm’s combination with Booz & Company. He led Katzenbach Partners as the firm grew organically over ten years to one hundred consultants across four offices. Niko began his consulting career at McKinsey & Company, where he was a founding member of the McKinsey Change Center. He subsequently co-founded Mitchell Madison Group’s Organization Practice.

Niko earned an A.B. in economics, summa cum laude, from Harvard College and completed graduate work at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He serves on the boards of Learning Enterprises and Reciprocity Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Acumen Fund. He initiated and co-leads China 2024, a twenty-year longitudinal study of the development of business leaders in China, and is a member of the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program.

Niko lives in a loft in Chelsea with his wife Uyen Tieu. Their loft is also home to three thousand books on everything from political theory to Vietnamese cooking, a wide range of contemporary art, and a seventeenth-century Chinese buddha. Niko writes poetry, is involved in several entrepreneurial ventures in both the for-profit and the non-profit worlds, and enjoys eating in a bewildering array of New York restaurants.

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