Stuart Kliman
Board Director
Stuart Kliman is a Partner at Building Industry Partners, a PE firm focused on the building industry. Kliman is a veteran strategic consulting firm leader and an expert in individual to individual and organization to organization relationship management, behavioral change, and individual and organizational capability building. Stuart heads up BIPs Center of Excellence, which is focused on creating a great human capital environment and implementing its “people-focused” mission at its portfolio companies.
Prior to joining BIP, Kliman was a founder and partner for 25 years at Vantage Partners, a mid-sized consulting and training organization in Boston, MA. At Vantage, Kliman’s clients ranged from startups to Fortune 500 companies and represented a wide cross section of industries. In addition to helping steer Vantage’s strategic direction and sitting on its management committee, at various times Kliman oversaw several operational functions, including human resources and marketing, and directly drove revenue for the firm.
Kliman’s long-standing interest in these areas began at the Harvard Negotiation Project, the think tank responsible for authoring Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, a seminal work on negotiation and collaboration. While there, he worked closely with two of the three co-authors of the book, among others, to translate those and other concepts into the workplace and the world at large. Their work focused specifically on the connection between individual/group/organizational alignment and collaboration and productivity, innovation, and effective strategic execution.
Kliman has authored many research reports and other white papers on topics ranging from relationship strategy and management to key capabilities for leaders and the future of work. He was recently appointed to the Strategic Advisory Board of the Simmons College Institute for Inclusive Leadership, where he is part of a group of experts in the fields of talent/leadership development, culture change, and DEI. Kliman graduated magna cum laude from Franklin and Marshall College and cum laude from Harvard Law School. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Lisa, and has two children, Max and Jessica.