Stuart Kliman
Stuart Kliman
Partner – Boston
Stuart Kliman is a Partner and Head of BIP’s newly formed Center of Excellence (CoE) focused on human capital management. Kliman is a veteran strategic consulting firm leader and an expert in organizational change and individual capability building.
Prior to joining BIP, Kliman was a founder and partner for 25 years at Vantage Partners, a mid-sized consulting and training organization in Boston, MA. At Vantage, Kliman’s clients ranged from startups to Fortune 500 companies and represented a wide cross section of industries. In addition to helping steer Vantage’s strategic direction and sitting on its management committee, at various times Kliman oversaw several operational functions, including human resources and marketing, and directly drove revenue for the firm. Also while at Vantage, Kliman helped many clients successfully build Centers of Excellence to help them maximize their relationships with key external stakeholders such as customers, suppliers, and strategic partners. Kliman’s other areas of expertise include organizational design and transformation and human capital management.
Kliman’s long-standing interest in these areas began at the Harvard Negotiation Project, the think tank responsible for authoring Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, a seminal work on negotiation and collaboration. While there, he worked closely with two of the three co-authors of the book, among others, to translate those and other concepts into the workplace and the world at large. Their work focused specifically on the connection between individual/group/organizational alignment and collaboration and productivity, innovation, and effective strategic execution.
Kliman has authored many research reports and other white papers on topics ranging from alliance strategy and management to key capabilities for leaders and the future of work. He was recently appointed to the Strategic Advisory Board of the Simmons College Institute for Inclusive Leadership, where he is part of an esteemed group of experts in the fields of equity, inclusion and diversity, talent/leadership development and culture change. Kliman graduated magna cum laude from Franklin and Marshall College and cum laude from Harvard Law School.He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Lisa.