Nesly Metayer

With a commitment to social and economic equity, Nesly Metayer brings an immense work experience moving with ease from organization to community development, from public health practices to research, and from public administration to non profit management. This solid and flexible work experience has been developed intertwining competencies from organizational development, organizational behavior, management and social theory addressing the profound structures of social inequity in America.

As a practitioner in the field, Nesly Metayer has been the executive director of Youth and Family Enrichment Services, an organization with the purpose of responding to the social and educational disparity of children from Hyde Park and Mattapan. Before joining YoFES, Nesly has spent six years at Tufts University as Senior Manager for Community Engagement leading the implementation of an innovative program to respond to child obesity disparity in New England. Named and awarded as Bridge Builder in 2013 from Tufts University President, Nesly Metayer was honored for assisting doctoral students and faculty to incorporate a social justice lens in their research and program implementation. Metayer has also worked as the Director of Community Development and Capacity Building at the Center for Community Health, Education & Research in Dorchester, MA. Previously, he worked for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health; first as Director of Administration at the AIDS Bureau and then in the Commissioner’s Office as the Director of Community Planning. While there, Metayer developed and implemented the award-winning Common Ground, an Organizational Capacity Building Project recognized by the Council of State Government as Innovation in Government.

As an organizational development consultant, Nesly Metayer partners with organizations to design, implement and evaluate participatory practices of inclusion and deepen organizational culture to social accountability and equity outcomes through training, strategic management processes, community renewal, executive transition and organizational change.

As a practitioner-scholar, Metayer has designed and published works on leadership, community building, organizational effectiveness, community and stakeholder involvement, program implementing using both qualitative and quantitative inquiries.

He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Haiti, a graduate diploma from the National School of Administration (ENA-IIAP France), a DESS from the University of Paris XI, a Master of Sociology from Caen University, a Doctorate in Administration from University of Paris Sorbonne. Nesly Metayer has been awarded a Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Mandel Center/EDM Non-Profit Fellowship and is finishing his research for the Doctor of Management Degree at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.