CatalystNU Facilitators
Naseem Khuri
Naseem Khuri is a trainer, consultant, mediator and facilitator specializing in negotiation, influence, and conflict management. He is a Principal with CMPartners, a Senior Facilitator with Vantage Partners, and a Senior Advisor with Dragonfly Partners. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Negotiations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and an Adjunct Lecturer at Georgetown 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, U.S. Navy SEALs, lawmakers in state legislatures, and various advocacy organizations working on civil liberties, criminal justice reform, and climate change.
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 an Associate Advisor at the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory at Harvard Kennedy School, a Board Member of the Negotiation Strategies Institute, a Board Member of Bridging Insights, and an Advisory Board member of Urban Rural Action. He lives in Silver Spring, MD with his wife and two young, very energetic children.
Jayne Nucete
Jayne (Jaynie) Nucete is a facilitator and trainer focused on conversations that generate insight, connection, and action toward transformative change in individuals, teams, organizations, and communities. For 25+ years Jaynie has helped individuals and teams develop the skills and capacity to navigate internal and interpersonal challenges. Currently based in Boston, MA, Jaynie has worked across sectors and geography with clients in for-profit, non-profit, and public service in the U.S., Middle East, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Her clients are teams, organizations, and communities who share big goals but struggle to move forward together because their experiences, ideas, or approaches are different: teams with poor communication, communities in conflict, and leaders struggling to shift away from what worked before to what is needed now. She teaches a course for emerging leaders at Tufts University, where she and her students grapple with the big questions and everyday practices needed to lead in a world that keeps serving up fresh challenges.
In the private sector, Jaynie facilitates workshops and delivers training in leadership, communication, difficult conversations, and negotiation for Fortune 500 companies in energy, healthcare, consumer packaged goods, food & beverages, and banking. In the public sector, she designs and delivers training in collaborative negotiation and consensus building for federal managers, non-profit leaders, higher education, congressional staff, civil society leaders, youth-at-risk, the World Bank Group, and the World Health Organization. She also supports organizations in the early stages of implementing their strategy for equity, inclusion, and diversity.
Previously, Jaynie was a field instructor and program manager for Outward Bound where she spent 700+ days leading wilderness expeditions through challenging terrain - and often more challenging group dynamics - in the U.S. and Mexico. Jaynie earned her MA in International Conflict Management and Economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and her BA and bachelor of social work from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She speaks English & Spanish, and she dabbled ever-so-briefly and delightedly 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.
Between 2011 and 2025, Rob consulted for the White House and supported 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).