Spencer Potesta

Psychotherapist, Company Builder, Author | Founder of Potesta Holdings Corporation & Social Capital Foundation

My background is in clinical and organizational psychology, dedicating time to psychotherapy for patients with severe anxiety and trauma disorders, while building and partnering with organizations in organizational psychology. The tools I use in therapy mirror those that help executives and organizations excel.

In psychotherapy, I run a private practice as a double-board certified psychotherapist in Illinois, offering specialized, evidence-based care for severe anxiety (like OCD) and trauma disorders (including dissociation). I dedicate a select few days per week to this transformative, client-centered work.

As CEO of Midsommer.org, I address clinical pain points—like limited access, high costs, and fragmentation—leading a pioneering mental health organization. We build a clinician-led holistic care model, revolutionizing psychotherapy with self-managing teams, comprehensive services, and ethical, insurance-based practices for affordability across states and specialties. We empower ethical clinicians to own teams as directors and co-owners (typically 10-12 grouped by region/specialty), creating sustainable foundations, better business outcomes, higher clinician satisfaction through collaboration, and dedicated client care. Achieved via aligned incentives and lock-step partnerships—not franchising—this forms a constellation of high-powered, human-centered teams. This bridges my passions of organizational psychology & psychotherapy, empowering resilience and impact for clinicians and clients.

In organizational psychology, I operate Social Capital Holdings, consulting Fortune 500/1000 firms on efficiency and performance. Now, I focus on engaged partnerships in businesses like Midsommer and others, strengthening systems, leadership, and operations.

While devoting time to psychotherapy a few days weekly and advancing ventures, my deepest passion is Social Capital Foundation. As President of this 501(c)(3) healthcare endowment, I tackle generational health needs, leveraging my success to innovate solutions benefiting practitioners and clients. We streamline operations to keep 100% of donations intact, supporting healthcare individuals and organizations.

Founder & Principal

Focused on scaling and rebuilding organizations

Service Lines:
-Organizational Consulting (Organizational Effectiveness & Development)
-Advising for startup organizations
-Turning around failing or distressed businesses
-Support Midsized to Largesized organizations becoming more effective and performative 
-Executive Coaching

*Coming 2023 the PPC Leader Academy focusing on providing straightforward ways for high performing leaders to increase performance and effectiveness. Academy is based on Psychotherapy & Organizational Psychology principles to help leaders break through internal and external barriers of success.

Spencer R. Potesta

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Chicago House Athletic Club

Advisory Board Member

Heartland Alliance

Associate Human Resources Business Partner 

Social Capital Foundation

Welcome to Social Capital Foundation, Inc Philanthropic DEI Endowment - (Non-for-profit) 
http://www.socialcapitalfoundation.com/

Director Of Development

Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago

Human Resources Assistant

MADO Healthcare Centers

Conduct assessments of cognition, behavior, mood, and community engagement on a geriatric population of 25-30 clients that reside within the facility diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorders, Personality disorders, Anxiety-Depression.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services Coordinator 

The Sunshine Method

Human Resources Intern

PARK RIDGE COUNTRY CLUB

Food and Beverage Server

I'm an Industrial Organizational Psychologist dedicated to deeply understanding workforces and leveraging those insights to drive meaningful change. By using a data-driven approach to uncover employee motivations and needs, I design targeted interventions that enhance productivity, engagement, and organizational well-being.

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