Nate Stephens is a social change facilitator with more than 10 years of convening and coaching multi-stakeholder collaboratives, organizations and institutions advancing strategies rooted in equity, a systems lens, and local power-building. His work focuses on coaching and facilitating processes that develop visionary and complexity-aware theories of change and strategic plans, and building the mindsets, capacities and relationships needed to accomplish them. Nate has worked in diverse social change sectors around the world to develop participatory and inclusive processes, including in 10 states in the US and 15 countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.  

In his current practice, Stephens Collaborative Strategies LLC, Nate focuses on local government and nonprofits clients including the District of Columbia Office of Planning; Refugees International; We Are CASA, FarmSTAND; Inter-American Development Bank; Fairfax County, VA Neighborhood and Community Services; and The Nature Conservancy. In addition to his consulting work, he is a senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership and an adjunct professor of Facilitation in the Georgetown University School of Government Masters of Conflict Resolution. He has facilitated more than 100 strategy and vision-setting convenings in English, Spanish, and French. 

Nate has an MPA with a concentration in Power in Development Systems from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a BA in Anthropology/Sociology with a concentration in Educational Studies from Carleton College in Minnesota. He grew up on a cattle ranch in the Black Hills of South Dakota where his passion for community power and creative problem solving began, and enjoys spending time with his husband and dog, and biking or running around DC.