Brad Nelson is a Managing Director of The Schnur Group. He has over 25 years of experience as a Principal and Director in the consulting firms Towers Perrin and Deloitte Consulting LLC, where he specialized in strategic human capital and communication issues. Brad has served as the President of an Inc.500 company and led the team that sold that $10 million business to a publicly-traded entity for $29.5 million. His background also includes delivering outstanding results for his clients in:

• Employee relations – Brad has solved problems as thorny as asbestos exposure and helped Fortune 100 clients avoid strikes in key facilities, thereby avoiding exposures of $10 million+
• Training – he has created award-winning programs for live delivery as well as online for a wide range of human capital and business-specific topics
• Leadership development – he has delivered cutting edge programs in such major international companies as: HSBC Bank, Microsoft, McAfee, and Black Entertainment Television
• Mergers and acquisitions – Brad excels at helping organizations large and small rapidly deal with all of the people and business issues involved in integrating their operations after a merger or acquisition so that they can get back to work and make the new company successful. Which CEO gets the top job? Which CFO is in charge? How long does the other CFO stay in place to ensure a smooth transition? Which salesperson gets which accounts? Who’s going to tell customers? Which technology platforms will be used? Who is going to tell employees – and what is going to be said when? All of these issues are critical to the ultimate success of the transaction. Brad has helped implement some of the most successful mergers and acquisitions around the world, for clients such as Glaxo SmithKline, Occidental Petroleum, Brocade Communications, AT&T, and more.
• Recruiting – Brad has designed and implemented processes that cut time to hire by 25%, costs to hire by 50% and increased retention rates of new hires by 70%
• Compensation and benefits – Brad has designed and implemented incentive programs that have produced 50% gains in revenue and productivity while simultaneously cutting costs
• Marketing and employee communications — he holds multiple awards from the International Association of Business Communicators.

Brad holds a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University and has been a speaker at Conference Board events in the U.S. and the U.K. He is the proud father of two great kids, a golf and baseball enthusiast and an author published in all media that have been created to date. Although he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, Brad grew up in New York and enjoys life as a Yankees fan – and is beginning to hope that being a Jets fan can work again in this lifetime.