Natalie Shell

Natalie Shell is an innovative and creative consultant, passionate about dialogue, strategy the interplay of things, and delivering positive and profitable change. She brings fresh thinking, energy and insight to any project. Her expertise in conversation, creating roadmaps/ framework and stories, in order to make a strategy tangible and actionable is valued highly by clients. So is her ability to provide synthesis and clarity – she often gets people unstuck by providing them with new ways of thinking.

Her talents in communication (language), diagnosis and synthesis started early, where coming from a multi-national, multi-lingual family. Natalie went on to study multi-disciplinarily, graduating with merit in two degrees –Business Administration (International Business and Marketing), and Science (Psychology) from the University of New South Wales. She is also a certified Mediator and Market and Social Researcher. Just as her background is diverse, so are her interests – from storytelling and writing, to whole systems, sustainability and community engagement, imagination and the impacts of innovation, technology and our environments/contexts on shaping our world.

Equipped with a diverse tool set, she blends her wide range of skills as a consultant, facilitator and coach to help individuals and organizations communicate strategically, get unstuck, generate ideas, gain clarity and then translate these into actionable, practical strategies and frameworks.

Since coming to NY in 2005 Natalie has worked as an Associate of Benchmark Communications, Inc. She has continued to apply her wide range of communication and strategy skills as a consultant, facilitator and storyteller to clients in both industry and not-for-profit sectors. Selected clients include: GlaxoSmithKlein, The Liminal Group, Lowe Enteprises, American Jewish Committee (AJC), and Positive Change Corps.

An Australian, she has previously worked, with, and for, small and large organizations in the business and community sectors including Coca Cola Australia, UNICEF, Best Western Hotels, the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation, Dymocks, TSL, D-stress, Creative Clarity, E-dentity, Vermillion and Enthuze, in a wide range of roles, largely focused on high level strategy development, branding, change and project management. She also often acted as an interface between cross-functional teams. As a facilitator and consultant she developed and designed leadership training and strategic communication programs, marketing concepts, interactive workshops, strategies, brands and framework for action, as well as leading and/or facilitating teams in dialogue and change processes.