About Us

The Frameshift Partners

Prior to founding Frameshift Consulting in 2025, Nat, Todd, and Matt worked together for over a decade. Frameshift is an opportunity to return to the partners’ roots: developing capabilities that enable clients to make confident, data-driven decisions and use creative funding structures for capital projects.

This leadership team developed the location strategy and economic development incentives practice within Honour, an industry leader in this space, before it was acquired by Avison Young in 2020. Throughout their time at Honour and Avison Young, the partners led hundreds of location strategy, network optimization, site selection and economic development incentives projects.

All three partners reside in the Atlanta area and, above all else, are devoted fathers and husbands and try to be helpful members of their communities. They have also put a dent in the notion that you can’t mix friendship with business.

Todd Ohlandt

Managing Director

Nat Estes

Managing Director

Matt Ryder

Managing Director

Who We Are

Todd Ohlandt, after graduating from Wake Forest University, began his career on Wall Street as a trader, working for Bear Stearns (now part of JP Morgan) and then Merrill Lynch. His path led him to Duke’s Fuqua School of Business for an MBA, and from there, he was able to take on senior-level roles at McMaster-Carr, one of the largest privately held industrial supply companies, and then Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. This led to reconnecting with Matt Ryder and becoming a Managing Principal for Honour, their consulting firm which was sold to Avison Young in 2020.

Todd applies his multi-disciplinary background to offer insights, draw connections, and incorporate cross-industry solutions in unique ways to help clients drive sustained profitability and growth. Specializing in decision modeling and scenario analysis, Todd has successfully served clients across virtually all industry sectors, including private equity, technology, energy, food and beverage, financial services, health care, life science, and all types of manufacturing.

Nat Estes graduated from Washington and Lee University with a degree in Economics. He began his career in technology, working in software sales and solutions for Cvent in Washington DC. From there, he relocated to New Orleans to work for The Shaw Group (a premier EDC, maintenance, and emergency mitigation services firm to government and private-sector) to manage the team running FEMA’s first-ever reconstruction grants, known as the Reconstruction Pilot, part of the total $750M Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.

Nat attended Georgia Tech’s Scheller School of Business for an MBA which jump-started his career in consulting, where he’s been ever since. He teamed up with Matt and Todd at Honour after 3 years at a larger consulting firm working mostly on labor / HR solutions for clients. Over the last 10 years, Nat has worked mostly with industrial clients on location strategy, labor market analytics, supply chain, and economic incentives projects. He’s a member of the Atlanta chapter of the Association for Supply Chain Management, Society of Labor Economists, and the Atlanta Area Compensation Association. He once tore his ACL jumping over a bonfire. Just ask him about it.

Matt Ryder, soon after graduating from Wake Forest University, started his journey in site selection and economic development incentives consulting at Newmark in New York City. There, he initially helped develop consulting services for the firm’s newly-created corporate advisory group. Among these was a site selection service, leading Matt to transition from a generalist consultant to head this small practice until 2008, when Newmark brought on Bob Hess, who became an influential mentor to Matt. From 2008 until Matt’s departure from Newmark, the company became the industry leader in site selection and economic development incentives services.

Matt left Newmark to pursue an MBA at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Following graduation, he settled in Atlanta and become a founding partner of Honour in 2012. At Honour, Matt continued to focus on site selection and economic development incentives consulting, creating essential tools to support organizations in making informed and confident location decisions.