Matt Statler

As InterCEP’s Associate Director, Matt’s responsibilities include conducting original research and coordinating special projects. Matt’s attention is currently focused on a project called “Developing High Impact Incentives to Promote Widespread Business Preparedness.” This initiative, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and coordinated with New York University’s Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response, is designed to generate research findings and actionable recommendations for private-sector preparedness.

Matt’s interest in preparedness has developed over the last four years in Switzerland, where he served as the Director of Research at the Imagination Lab Foundation. In that role, he designed and facilitated strategy processes in multinational corporations, international non-governmental organizations, and small- and medium-sized businesses. He also guided a research team as it developed projects and programs that yielded dozens of academic journal articles, book chapters and conference presentations.

Matt began his professional career working with the Nonprofit Practice in A.T. Kearney, Inc., a global management consulting firm providing strategic advisory and human resources services to museums, dance companies, foundations and trade associations in New York and around the world. Then he took the position of Managing Director, New York for Weberize, an IT development firm. While with Weberize, he designed online business strategies for clients, and began to facilitate organizational learning processes. He then formed Archaea Group, a boutique consulting firm dedicated to helping a select group of clients thrive and grow through difficult processes of strategic change.

Matt’s educational background includes a BA in Philosophy and a BA in Spanish Literature from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He spent one year at the University of Heidelberg as a Fulbright Scholar, and then completed a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. Written with the support of the Mellon Foundation, his dissertation examined the role of repetition in education and focused specifically on the philosopher's allegorical return to the cave.

Matt’s research publications include:

  1. “Re-framing Strategic Preparedness: An Essay on Practical Wisdom” with Roos, J. (forthcoming). International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy.
  2. “Illustrating the Need for Practical Wisdom” with Roos, J and Victor, B. (forthcoming). International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy.
  3. "Toward a Technology of Foolishness – Developing Scenarios through Serious Play” with Jacobs, C. (forthcoming). International Studies of Management and Organization.
  4. Styles of Piety: Practicing Philosophy After the Death of God, ed. with Buckner, S.C. (2005). New York: Fordham University Press.
  5. “Evoking Metis: Questioning the Logics of Change, Responsiveness, Meaning and Action in Organizations” with Letiche, H. (2005). Culture and Organization, March 11/1, pp. 1-16.
  6. “Practical Wisdom and Serious Play: Reflections on Management Understanding” (2005). In Sophisticated Survival Techniques / Strategies in Art and Economy, ed. Schrat, H. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos.
  7. “Strategy Creation as Serious Play” with Jacobs, C. (2005). In Innovating Strategy Process, eds. Floyd, S., Roos, J., Jacobs, C., & Kellermans, F. Blackwell Publishing.
  8. “Playing Seriously with Strategy” with Roos, J and Victor, B. (2004). Long Range Planning, December 37/6, pp. 549-568.