Nat Goodman is an operations and finance guru with significant accomplishments in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Additionally, he develops and presents several seminars worldwide. The topics include business transformation & reengineering, process improvement, best practices, payable systems, performance measurements and retail success factors. Nat is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (Texas) and an AICPA member.


Nat has written extensively on accounts payable authoring two professional certification manuals. In Venezuela, he spearheaded a project that reduced inventory shrinkage and inaccuracy by 70%.

Nat served as the chairperson for a financial leadership conference entitled The Impact of the Electronic Revolution on Best Practices sponsored by The Center for Professional Education. In Egypt, he developed a privatization strategy for a 55-retail store chain with three factories.

Nat designed and installed a labor scheduling system for 12,500 sales associates in Indonesia that elevated customer service while cutting payroll costs. In Spain, he prepared a reengineering plan that outlined the elimination of 266 administrative positions while accelerating timeliness and enhancing the relevancy of reporting.


His last corporate officer assignment was controller for Hartmarx Specialty Stores, a 275-unit specialty apparel retailer, where he directed the initiation of restructuring.

Nat had a 26-year career with Sears that included 11 hands on years within a retail store. As corporate comptroller for Sears Roebuck De Mexico S.A. from 1982 to 1985, Nat redesigned the financial and merchandise inventory plan to respond sensitively to hyperinflation and devaluation during Mexico’s economic crisis.

Returning to the US, he was appointed financial manager for Sears Roebuck Catalog Marketing and Production where he developed a media planning system directed toward more effective investment of a $350 million advertising budget.

Nat served as an artillery officer and a paratrooper in the US Army. He earned a BS at Temple University and a MBA from Northern Illinois. Nat is proficient English/Spanish.