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

North Carolina State University

[MIE 330] Human Resource Management
[PSY 307] Industrial-Organizational Psychology
[PSY 370] Personality Psychology

Primary Instructor

[MIE 330] Human Resource Management
[MIE 434] Strategic Compensation Systems

Co-Instructor

Project: Attitudinal & Behavioral Trajectories regarding post-COVID-19 return to work

Research Manager and Data Analyst

[PSY 230] Research Methods in Psychology
[PSY 311] Social Psychology

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Graduate Research Assistant

Meredith College

Adjunct Instructor

Southeastern Oklahoma State University

[PSY 4323] Industrial-Organizational Psychology (Distance Education)

The George Washington University

Serve as a coordinator in charge of publishing and updating content, maintaining continuity of themes, designing layout, streamlining navigation, and increasing online presence for the WAVE lab website.

Research Lab Website Manager

Serve as active member of research team to investigate the effects of electronic monitoring on training performance, including literature review, experimental design, data collection, data analysis and other activities.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Prometric

Organized project and documented reference citations for all test questions on three exams developed for The American College of Psychiatrists annually during the Summer.

Test Development Assistant

Primary Instructor | Personality & Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Ph.D. candidate in industrial-organizational psychology at North Carolina State University with research foci in nature contact and biophilic workplace design, employee trust, cutting-edge technology, and employee well-being. 

𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝗮𝗹: Right now, I am completing my dissertation and actively seeking employment for the Fall 2025 semester as an assistant professor in OB/HR/IO, where I will continue to conduct research, improve my teaching skills, and interact with a diverse community of students, scholars, and practitioners.

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵: My research broadly focuses on employee well-being and creating workplaces that contribute to, rather than detract from, the health, well-being, and resilience of their occupants. Within this overarching framework, my research has touched on many concepts, including technology in the workplace, trust and employee behaviors, effective organizational message framing in times of flux and dynamism, and the positive effects of nature contact and biophilic design on employees and organizations.

𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴: As an instructor, I strive to create an energetic, supportive, and engaging learning environment that imparts knowledge, actively excites students, and prepares them for their future lives and careers. The fundamental principle that underlies my teaching philosophy is, “If you do a job, do it right.” The concept of doing the job right has meant many things throughout my experience teaching, including creating memorable and impactful classroom experiences, ensuring the real-world transferability of course content, and creating an environment in which students feel comfortable, supported, and empowered to engage and excel both professionally and personally.

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗠𝗲: If you would like to contact me for any reason, please feel invited to reach out via LinkedIn or email (iosideri@ncsu.edu).

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