Nate joined the College of Management as Associate Dean of faculty and programs in the fall of 1999. In the spring of 2003, he was named Senior Associate Dean with responsibility for executive education, corporate and career development, and graduate programs.  In the fall of 2007 he returned full time to the faculty where he is the Catherine W. and Edwin A. Wahlen Professor of Management. 

Professor Bennett has published his work in respected academic journals such as the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Journal of Applied Psychology.  Additionally, he has published in many widely-read resources for managers including the Harvard Business Review and Wall Street Journal.  He is co-author (with Stephen Miles, Managing Partner in the Leadership Consulting Practice at Heidrick and Struggles) of the 2006 Stanford University Press title "Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO."

Professor Bennett came to Georgia Tech from E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University where he had been a faculty member since 1989. While at LSU, he served as Chair of the William W. and Catherine M. Rucks Department of Management and as Associate Dean for Academic Programs.

He received both a Bachelor's degree in Sociology in 1983 and a Master's degree in Applied Social Research in 1984 from Tulane University in New Orleans. In 1989, he earned his PhD in Management from Georgia Tech.

Bennett is a frequent speaker and commentator in business press.  He has been invited to lecture in programs internationally at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institut Commercial de Nancy, and Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires.  Finally, he is involved in the design and delivery of executive development programs for companies in a wide range of industries, and has an active practice as a consultant on issues related to top management team performance, innovation and change management, and strategy execution.

Areas of Specialization
Leadership and Strategy Execution
Managing Innovation and Change Processes
Top Management Team Dynamics
Contextual Influences on Individual Behavior in Organizations

Education
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology