Nathan Steele, Ph.D. is the MBA program Director and an Associate Professor in the College of Business and Management at the University of Illinois Springfield. Dr. Steele teaches Negotiation, Managing Organizational Behavior, Group Management Techniques, and Leadership and Motivation; and has won multiple awards for the quality of his teaching.

He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Indiana University in 2004. At Indiana University he primarily studied negotiation and bargaining with Dr. Jerome M. Chertkoff, and completed a minor in quantitative analysis.

Following the completion of his degree, he was awarded a postdoctoral position in the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah as part of their Organizational Behavior group. At the Eccles school, Nathan continued a line of research begun with his dissertation on perceptions of equity or fairness in negotiation scenarios. Nathan has presented executive education sessions and consulted broadly on the topics of group dynamics, motivation, leadership, and negotiation for a variety of organizations including the Southwestern Poverty Law Center, Komatsu North America, Bank of Springfield, and Illinois National Bank.

He also conducts research that has won multiple awards nationally and internationally along the lines of group dynamics, decision making, equity, moral reasoning, and negotiation. His research has been published in refereed professional journals and presented at various refereed national and international conferences.