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

Landers Consulting Group

Senior Consultant

Telesis Consulting LLC

Empower your leaders to build high-performing teams with our coaching, mentoring, and consulting services. From frontline supervisors to senior managers, we help leaders develop the skills and strategies they need to succeed. Through personalized coaching and mentoring, we focus on improving communication, building relationships, and achieving goals. We also offer consulting services to address specific workforce issues, such as turnover, retention, performance management, DEIB, and more, through Employee Listening Initiative Programs and Data Analytics Review.
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Principal Consultant / Owner

Georgia-Pacific LLC

This position involved managing HR functions for a large workforce of approximately 700 employees in a union facility. This included partnering with the mill manager and site business unit leaders to develop and implement people-focused initiatives that aligned with the organization's overall business goals.

Sr Manager, HRBP

Ingersoll Rand

This position involved partnering with various stakeholders, including HR leaders, General Managers, European leadership teams, and division leadership teams, to align people initiatives with business objectives within a complex, global, and matrixed organization. Managed HR functions for a diverse workforce of approximately 400 employees across two business units, encompassing five brands, spanning six locations in five states, with three different unions.

HR Manager - North America Medical Segment

Gardner Denver

This position led human resources functions for a diverse workforce of approximately 150 employees across four locations and brands in three states, with one union. Supported business leaders for various HR functional areas, including employee relations, recruiting, compliance training, compensation, and benefits, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

HR Generalist

TriContinent

As an HR team member, I played a key role during the transition period at TriContinent Scientific, Inc. following its acquisition by Gardner Denver Thomas, Inc. The HR team was dispersed across three locations in the US, with executive HR leadership based in Germany.

My primary responsibility was to support the integration of HR programs and policies during the acquisition. This involved developing and implementing new policies, such as vacation and sick leave policies, to ensure compliance with California employment laws and align with the acquiring company's standards.

Human Resources Generalist (contractor)

Veterinary Hospitals in California

California RVT with work experience in small animal, equine surgical/referral, emergency/critical care, and lab medicine.
 

Subject Matter Expert for California Registered Veterinary Technician Licensing Exam workshops. Participated in workshops for item writing, item review, examination construction, and pass score setting.

Attended California Veterinary Medical Board (VMB) meetings, building relationships with the VMB Director and VMB members.

Partnered with the CaRVTA Legislative and Regulatory Liaison to the VMB to recommend amended language and/or create new language to the California Veterinary Medicine Practice Act.

California Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT)

Amper Image Sciences Inc.

Managed various business functions to ensure continuity in operations, including strategic planning, branding, and marketing efforts, as well as accounting and finance activities. Additionally, this encompassed overseeing human resources and culture development, focusing on people development and fostering a positive work environment within the image technology startup.

Business Manager

California Registered Veterinary Technicians Association

Collaborated with Committee members to design, develop, implement and manage statewide professional mentoring program to enhance the growth, education, and career development of RVT students and newly licensed California RVTs.

Mentor Program Coordinator

Guided growth and led Directors in organizational strategic planning and operations management to support mission of driving change and continuous improvement in the RVT profession. Led taskforce to develop and manage CE (continuing education) program and sponsorship agreements providing learning/development opportunities for members.

President / Board of Directors

Northumbria Police

HR Master's Research Site and Internship

This internship involved collaborating closely with management to develop a comprehensive departmental culture change initiative. This initiative focused on enhancing leadership, coaching and mentoring, and team building capabilities to drive positive change within the organization.

L&D Intern

Sr HR Business Partner | Organizational Behavior | Coach-Mentor | Cultural Change | Leadership Development

Strategic Business and Management Professional

As a seasoned business and management professional with over 15 years of experience, I excel in strategic planning, operations, IO Psychology and human resources, including labor relations. My industry expertise spans the non-profit, service, pharmaceutical, technology start-up, veterinary medicine and manufacturing sectors, where I have demonstrated leadership in setting up business operations, creating and implementing policies and procedures, and building and motivating high-performing teams. I am a strong advocate for recognizing the power of people as a true business resource, particularly in innovative companies characterized by collaborative corporate cultures.

Coaching, Mentoring, and People-Centric Approach

My passion lies in coaching and mentoring front-line supervisors to middle managers, empowering them to unlock their full potential and drive business success. I also thrive on listening to an organization's people issues, identifying patterns, trends, and gaps in people processes and systems, and developing targeted solutions to address these challenges. This people-centric approach is rooted in my belief that a motivated and engaged workforce is the key to driving business growth and success.

Research Interests

My research interests are centered around critical issues impacting the modern workplace, including workplace burnout, leadership, redefining the middle management role, job demands/job resources, employee experience, resilience, and neurodiversity in the workplace. Through my research, I aim to contribute to the development of evidence-based practices that foster positive work environments, enhance employee well-being, and drive business performance.

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