CatalystNU Facilitators

Naseem Khuri

Naseem is a trainer, consultant, mediator and facilitator specializing in negotiation, influence, and conflict management. He is a Senior Facilitator with Vantage Partners, a Principal with CMPartners, and a Senior Advisor with Dragonfly Partners. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

In the public and NGO sectors, he works with foundations, non-profit and international organizations, and government institutions managing strategic planning processes, delivering customized negotiation and influence training and facilitating internal change conversations and initiatives. Clients include Israeli, Palestinian and international diplomats and political leaders, the U.S. State Department, U.S. Navy SEALs, and the World Bank.

In the private sector, he works with Fortune 100 companies offering training and consulting services to clients ranging from procurement officers managing key vendor relationships to loan officers managing long-term borrower relationships. Clients come from the manufacturing, tech, energy, consulting and banking industries.

Khuri has a master in public policy degree from Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelor of arts degree from Bowdoin College. He is a member of the Truman National Security Project, a Board Member of the Negotiation Strategies Institute, a Board Member of Bridging Insights, and a Leadership Board member of Urban Rural Action. He lives in Silver Spring, MD with his wife and two children.

Jayne Nucete

Jayne (Jaynie) Nucete is a facilitator and trainer focused on conversations that generate deeper insight, connection, and action for transformative change in individuals, teams, organizations, and communities. She is based in Boston, Massachusetts and has been facilitating interpersonal skills workshops for 25+ years. Through workshops, coaching, and consultation, she helps clients and community members develop mindsets, skills, and practices they need to engage their most challenging conversations with confidence.

Jayne has delivered training in negotiation, difficult conversations, and leadership for Fortune 500 companies in energy, healthcare, consumer packaged goods, food & beverages, and banking. In the public sector, she has designed and delivered training in collaborative negotiation and consensus building for federal managers, non-profit leaders, congressional staff, civil society leaders, youth-at-risk, the World 11 Bank Group, and the World Health Organization. She also facilitates conversations among communities in political conflict. She supports companies and organizations in the early stages of implementing their strategy for equity, inclusion, and diversity. Jayne teaches a course for emerging leaders at The Gordon Institute of Tufts University.

Previously, Jayne was an instructor and program manager for Outward Bound. She is an adept outdoorswoman who has spent 700+ days leading wilderness expeditions through challenging terrain - and often more challenging group dynamics - in the U.S. and Mexico.

Jayne earned her MA in International Relations, Conflict Management, and Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy, and Washington, DC. She holds a BSW in Social Work and a BA in Spanish from the University of Missouri. Jayne speaks English and Spanish and dabbles in Italian.

Robert Wilkinson

Robert Wilkinson is a Senior Lecturer on Public Policy and Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Rob teaches graduate courses on negotiation and leadership effectiveness. In 2023, he won the Harvard Kennedy School Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Rob has more than 30 years of experience, in over 50 countries, across the public, private and not-profit sectors. He supports numerous organizations of all kinds to help them increase their overall effectiveness.

Rob's non-profit and public sector clients include the United Nations, World Bank, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), US Postal Service, Oxfam, CARE International, and several others. Corporate clients include IBM, Deloitte, Merck, ExxonMobil, Bank of America, Walmart and many others.

Since 2011, Rob has consulted for the White House, and currently supports the Leadership Development team within the White House Presidential Personnel Office.

Previously, Rob worked overseas for 15 years, on a variety of international projects. This included spending three years in Rwanda working with Hutu and Tutsi communities, two years working with the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Angola, and 18 months in Laos, consulting on a variety of community development programs. Rob also led a 2-year Security Sector Reform project in Burundi, bringing together government and rebel forces to support the formation of a unified military and police force. He began his overseas work in Nicaragua, in both Sandinista and Contra areas.

In 2007, he won a Governors' Service Award (from the Governor of Massachusetts) for leadership in delivery of development aid operations. Rob earned his Masters of Science (MS) from Stanford University, and Bachelors of Science (BS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).