Contact Christian: christian.fernandez@orgshakers.com

Christian is a Future of Work, Talent Transformation and Work Optimization Leader with 15 years of strategy development and execution in Agile Business Transformation, Organization Design & Effectiveness, and Process Re-engineering. A unique combination of Industrial Engineering and Organizational Development experience has allowed him to effectively coach executives in developing roadmaps to achieve a “High Performing Organization” through alignment of people, processes and technology that improve organizational capabilities and yield higher profit margins, operational efficiencies, and employee engagement.

He completed a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s degree In Organizational Behavior with a concentration in Enterprise Change Management from NYU- Tandon School Engineering and has spent many years studying the intersectionality between strategy, structure, people, process and technology and how these can be optimized to increase organizational effectiveness, operational capacity and employee productivity. He has supported many organizations in their transformation efforts by leveraging Lean Six Sigma methodologies. Christian co-lead the Organizational Design practice at Prudential Financial and operationalized the future of work operating model that enabled their 3-year enterprise transformation focused on work, workplace and workforce. In 2023 he joined Northwestern Mutual to build and lead their Strategic Workforce Planning capability.

Christian has started to share his findings and learnings by actively speaking at HR conferences such as Unleash America, CLO & CHRO Exchange and Reimagined Workforce Podcast on the topic of leveraging work design to create organizational agility and design organizations of the future that can quickly pivot.