Senior Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton
Reginald Van Lee is a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton where he is part of the firm’s Organization and Strategy Capabilities Team (which focuses on global health public sector agencies), and also leads the nonprofit business. His expertise lies in understanding how global organizations can build their capabilities to make them resilient to any potential problems that may affect mission accomplishment and growth. He has worked extensively with private sector, public sector, and NGO clients in the area of strategic transformation and high performance organizational design. His experiences are wide-ranging and include redefining business models for global communications, media, and technology companies; co-leading the Urban Enterprise Initiative with the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation in New York City; driving growth and mission accomplishment for nonprofits like Habitat for Humanity, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, the American Cancer Society, and numerous other foundations.
He has coauthored articles on the topic of strategy implementation and developed an innovative and integrated “tool kit” for management with techniques designed to help leaders realize new strategies and institutionalize existing strategies. His article “Rewiring the Corporation” has appeared in the Journal of Business Strategy and Business Horizons. Mr. Van Lee has also appeared numerous times on ABC’s “World News This Morning” and CNBC speaking on the topics of CEO tenures, corporate values, and enterprise resilience. Mr. Van Lee holds BS and MS degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also earned an MBA at Harvard Business School. Mr. Van Lee is a member and supporter of many organizations and activities outside of Booz Allen Hamilton including the Executive Leadership Council.
Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund; the Abyssinian Development Corporation, a member of MIT’s National Selection Committee; the New York International Ballet Competition; New York City Center for Charter School Excellence; chair of the Board of the EVIDENCE Dance Company; a trustee and treasurer of the Studio Museum in Harlem; and chairman of the Corporate Advisory Board at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Mr. Van Lee was named one of the top 25 consultants in the world in Consulting Magazine in 2000 and recognized as one of New York’s finest philanthropists in 2002. In 2004, Mr. Van Lee received New York University’s C. Walter Nichols award for outstanding community service, as well as the prestigious Spirit of Cabrini award by the Cabrini Mission Foundation. In 2005, Mr. Van Lee was awarded the Joseph Papp Racial Harmony Award from the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, and in 2006 he was awarded the Black Engineer of the Year “Pioneer” Award.
