Joe Hertzberg

As a consultant in Oregon since 1979, Joe has specialized in strategic thinking and creative decision-making.  Formerly on the faculty of Yale University, he was also a principal in Sextant Consultants Inc. and a vice president of O’Neill & Company, a consulting firm with offices in Seattle and Portland.

After many years focused on the business sector, Joe currently works almost exclusively with public and nonprofit clients, focusing especially on elected officials, public task forces, and grantmakers.  He served as a member of Portland’s Charter Review Commission and spent six months as interim director of the city’s Bureau of Housing & Community Development, guiding the transition to its new strategic plan and leading the search for a permanent director.

He has graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, has taught in the MBA program at Marylhurst University, and has served on the boards of Friends of the Children, The Lowenstein Trust, and The Jewish Review.

Like his fellow boomers, Joe is intrigued to find himself moving through midlife: all four children out of the nest and a sports car announcing that he will never drive another car pool.  While hearing and memory have slipped, he claims to be skiing better than he ever has in his life. (Note, however, that Sonny Bono made the same claim.)