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

Robert Half

Provide top-level analysis and develop targeted research and data mining strategies to identify potential executive candidates for a facet of industries spanning from IT, private equity, non-profit, pharmaceutical, human resources and more. Support Managing Directors, Principals and Associates with market intelligence and strategies to drive business development, as well as build and maintain a database of competitive industry and market knowledge.

Research Associate

Evalueserve

Research Lead

PM of a global open innovation project for a leading FMCG company that involved teams in Chile, Romania, China and India, as well as the client in the US. 
- Created team coherence and unity through coordination of a cross-team activities to promote learning through the resolution of a challenge, as well as supported the recruitment and training of new team members.
- Led long term and end-to-end project management, including the development of project proposals and customized solutions for clients together with team members, resulting in potential new projects for the organization.
 - Oversaw quality control of research translated from 8 languages across 15 sectors, including competitive market and trend analysis, product descriptions and company announcements, among others.

Writer, editor and content generator for leading Pharmaceutical company that included a monthly newsletter, as well as team point of contact for ad-hoc project management requests for blog and website content development. Worked closely with client in generating written content to effectively reach customers in the appropriate target markets to promote products and services.

Conducted English language and cultural competency trainings to EVS employees.

Senior Business Analyst

Executed end-to-end market intelligence and data analysis for clients across a variety of industries including FMCG, Life Sciences, Non-Profit, IT as well as the Energy sector. 

Editor of weekly newsletter for a leading global pharmaceutical company, that included cross cultural collaborations to ensure accuracy of translations in Portuguese and Spanish.

On-demand editor for EVS editorial team that involved quality control and adherence to a variety of style guides and company-specific requirements for financial and business research documents, as well as in-house presentations and proposals.

Conducted English language and cultural competency trainings to EVS employees.

Business Analyst, Editor

Edited internal and client financial and business documents to ensure that they met the highest quality in terms of writing, style and flow. Responsibilities included organizing an ongoing editorial training program within the Editorial cohort, as well as English language and cultural sensitivity trainings to EVS employees.

Associate Editor

The International Center

Conducted ESL classes for enlisted members of the Chilean Navy's Special Forces teams.

Profesóra de inglés

Dr. Katherine Browne (Professor of Anthropology, Colorado State University)

Conducted archival research, literature reviews and ethnographic interviews with local government officials, business owners, and medical and university staff in the New Orleans area concerning post-Katrina recovery efforts.

Research Assistant

Colorado State University

(ANTH 140 Prehistory) 	        	
Instructed on archaeological topics, including early evidence and interpretation of human economic, political and ceremonial activities.
Administered and graded student writing, created essay prompts and exams, and led class discussions and test review sessions.
Supervised class of 90 students and offered counseling on academic material, academic writing including essay and research design, as well as personal achievement.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Center for Collaborative Conservation

Internship under the guidance of Lakota elder and wildlife biologist Richard Sherman to amend the existing Indigenous Stewardship Model. I collaborated with tribal and non-tribal entities to construct a common language of mutual understanding and integrate culturally appropriate solutions to issues of natural resource management and conflict resolution. Internship also involved assuring the generational momentum of traditional ecological knowledge by engaging ethnographic field work and participatory based research to record ethnobotanical knowledge and its potential role in strengthening both human and natural communities.

Fellows Program, Intern

WorldFish

Collaborated with ReefBase staff in writing and editing content for ReefBase website.
Archived scientific journal articles and imagery on coral reefs for the ReefBase database.
Internship sponsored by World Food Prize Foundation.

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