As ITHAKA’s chief operating officer, Nathalie Udo oversees our Brand & Communications, Finance, Legal, Work Life & Culture, Organizational Transformation, and Partner Services & Operations units. She brings an impact-oriented approach to improving how work gets done, and leverages people’s skills and passions to nurture deep engagement with our work.

Before officially joining ITHAKA in 2019, Nathalie managed a major capital program to build ITHAKA’s new technology platform in 2014, and later partnered with senior leadership to implement OKRs to guide and align our work. Through her business consultancy—InDepth Strategies, LLC—she has helped organizations like Royal Dutch Airlines, New England Journal of Medicine, and Alcatel-Lucent with strategic planning, executive coaching, leadership, and organizational change.

Nathalie holds a master’s degree in economics and business administration from University of Maastricht, Netherlands, and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC®), a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM®). She is coauthor of Organizational Survival: Profitable Strategies for a Sustainable Future (McGraw-Hill, 2013) and contributed to Scrappy Women in Business: Living Proof that Bending the Rules Isn’t Breaking the Law (Happy About, 2010). Driven by her passion for the oceans and the planet, Nathalie serves as chair of the boards of the Marine Conservation Institute and Heirs To Our Oceans.