
Lukas Naugle is the founder of Changegoat and serves as an operating partner and senior advisor to private equity investors, boards, and executive leadership teams. For more than 15 years, he has supported organizations navigating growth, transition, and complexity, with a focus on leadership alignment, strategic clarity, and disciplined execution in hard-asset-backed, highly regulated, and government-adjacent environments. Lukas works alongside investors and operators across a range of ownership structures, operating as an integrator across leadership, strategy, and communication during critical inflection points.Lukas holds a BA in International Business from Whitworth University. Operating from Dallas, TX, he loves to bring an entrepreneurial and multi-sector perspective to get beyond the status quo.