Society for Process Consulting Special Announcement

Society for Process Consulting Leadership transition

Dear friends of the Society for Process Consulting,

Thank you for your dedication to the field of Process Consulting. Your commitment to the inquiry and process approach to helping leaders and their organizations transform matters.

We want to share with you a leadership transition at the Society for Process Consulting. After six years at the helm, our fearless leader Kim Stezala, is stepping down as CEO.

Kim has faithfully led the Society since its founding in 2018 and is now rededicating more time to her long-standing career and passion for student access, equity, and success. Now more than ever, scholarship providers and the students they serve need a Process Consultant with Kim’s significant competencies and expertise.

In the fall of 2017, along with the Society’s co-founder Mark L. Vincent, Kim shared a vision for creating a place where individuals could be trained in the art of Process Consulting. Along with our thanks to Kim, we thank everyone who was involved in the creation of the Society. We could not have launched the Society without you!

Guided by Kim, the Society began offering coursework to practitioners in 2018 by hosting its first cohort class. That seminal course, Process Consulting Training 101 combines the tenets of Process Consulting as a vocation with the practical lessons of building a consulting business, launched the Society on an upward trajectory.

Over the next five years, Kim, the Society’s faculty, and our Standards and Ethics committee developed additional courses and credentialing programs that serve the entire field of Process Consulting. Since its inception the Society has trained over 300 practitioners in the art of Process Consulting. No small feat in six short years.

Under Kim’s leadership the Society now occupies center stage in training and certifying Process Consulting professionals. This position was solidified when in 2021 Mark L. Vincent and the Society published in The Core Competencies of Process Consulting. In writing the book’s forward Kim shared,

“With this book, written by Process Consultants for Process Consultants, we seek to accelerate learning in organizational development by providing hands-on lessons and examples from the field of Process Consulting. Our intention is to bridge academia with practical examples and connections to the real world, inspiring our readers toward continual learning and development of their craft.”

As Kim steps down from her role with the Society, she is still actively involved in the field of Process Consulting by helping organizations and their leaders transform for a vibrant future. We have asked our CEO Lon L. Swartzentruber to serve as interim CEO of the Society. In the coming months, he will lead a process to further expand the faculty of the Society and secure its next generation of leadership.

If you would like to learn more about the Society and how you can get involved and utilize the transformative power of Process Consulting, please contact Lon L. Swartzentruber at lons@designgroupintl.com. In addition, if you would like to learn more about the Society and becoming a member, please don’t hesitate to visit our website.

Warmest regards,

Senior Design Partners of Design Group International

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Design Group International is a majority female-owned human and organizational development company. Our 22 member Community of Practice, who live in eleven cities across the United States, are committed to providing exemplar Process Consulting services to their Clients. 

Design Group International has extensive experience with for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including family owned-businesses, partnerships, universities and colleges, denominations and associational bodies, Montessori and Christian schools, private and community foundations, city and regional governing bodies, human service, and arts organizations.

We offer organizational development counsel, executive coaching, and leadership development in the areas of strategic planning and interim, stakeholder engagement, governance, organizational culture, and organizational assessment and evaluation. We are are committed to helping organizations and their leaders transform for a vibrant future.

Contact Information:

Lon L. Swartzentruber, Managing Partner & CEO, 616-516-9870, lons@designgroupintl.com