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Katherine Nesser

  • Director, Eisner Advisory Group LC
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Katherine Nesser is a Director in the firm. With nearly 20 years of experience, Katherine is a project manager with a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time, within scope, and budget. She is adept at developing comprehensive project plans, defining clear deliverables, and managing resources effectively to achieve organizational objectives. Katherine’s skills include managing stakeholder communication, evaluating risk assessments, and focusing on problem resolution while ensuring alignment with client needs and project goals. Her expertise includes process improvement, budget management, and implementing agile methodologies to optimize project outcomes.

Katherine is known for fostering collaboration, maintaining a high level of organization, and driving results in fast-paced environments. In her most recent experiences, Katherine served as a Project Manager for a nationally recognized federally funded grant program for disaster management and as a Project Manager for the largest class action settlement for water contamination in US history. She has designed communication materials to synergize with the pre-existing communications strategies and delivered accurate and clear key messages to targeted audiences. She built a training program for various process and procedures and delivered customized training to specific audiences. Katherine also served as valuable resource for testing system updates and identifying system process flows in compliance with program-mandated policies and procedures. Her recommendations and feedback verified that accurate and up-to-date information was sent directly to the grant program's affected applicants to clearly explain next steps in the claims process.

As a leader in Change Management, Katherine delivers change management initiatives that drive organizational transformation and deliver measurable results. She is highly skilled in developing and executing change strategies, including stakeholder analysis, communication planning, and training programs, to ensure seamless adoption of new processes, systems, and technologies.

Prior to joining the firm, Katherine was an  Associate Director at Postlethwaite & Netterville (P&N), a leading full-service accounting and business advisory firm.

Specialties

  • Change Management
  • Leadership Development  
  • Employee Experience
  • Change Control
  • Project Management
  • Communications and Training

Credentials & Education

  • Prosci Change Practitioner
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Certified Practitioner 
  • Certified Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Practitioner 
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Workplace Effectiveness Professional
  • Certificate of Achievement, Introduction to FEMA Individual Assistance (IA), Emergency Management Institute
  • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA: MBA; BA, Mass Communications

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