Bernard C. Wetzel, Ph.D.

With a doctorate in Counseling Psychology and 25 years in business, Bernie provides his clients with a rare blend of education and experience. In 1997, he founded Wetzel Consulting providing executive coaching, organization development consulting and facilitation services to companies and non-profit organizations. He was previously Director, Executive and Organization Development for Westinghouse where he designed and implemented leadership development initiatives and provided consulting services and executive coaching to its businesses. Dr. Wetzel also spent ten years as Manager, Management and Organization Development for Westinghouse Credit Corporation.

Bernie is a member of Marshall Goldsmith Partners, LLC. MGP brings together world-class coaches with complementary skills in leadership development and feedback, executive education and coaching, and strategic and organizational change.

Bernie has coached numerous executives in multiple corporations in many different industries. He is certified to use a variety of assessment and development tools. As an internal, he was one of a team of executives that designed and developed an executive coaching program for a large multi-national corporation. This was supported by the CEO, adopted by all business units and used in the key leadership review process. And, he worked with a team of HR executives to develop and integrate competencies into an assessment and coaching process. He was also one of three internals to coach senior business unit leadership.

Dr. Wetzel has consulted on over five hundred management team development and strategy meetings. For example:

• Facilitated strategic planning process for large family-owned holding company and four of its operating businesses.

• Designed and facilitated series of retreats for CEO and partners of large ($1.25 billion) venture capital firm.

• Designed and facilitated series of ten “Chairman’s Initiative” meetings. Provided new CEO with opportunity to have structured dialogue with top 160 senior executives and assess their leadership capability. Enabled CEO to shape his position on various issues and deepen senior executive understanding of his vision, values and strategies

• Conducted a series of seven team building meetings with different configurations of an IT management group. Assisted group in making major transitions forced by dramatic industry and technical changes.

An experienced speaker and presenter, Bernie designed and delivered all internal management development courses at a financial services company. And, as presenter of “Implementing Strategic Organizational Change,” he was ranked in the top two or three, out of twenty presenters, in seven straight internal executive programs. Presenters included top business school professors and senior management.

Dr. Wetzel earned his BS in Economics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his Master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in Counseling Psychology.

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