Our Consultants, Facilitators and Coaches

  

 
  
Scott Schwefel, Managing Partner, Insights Twin Cities, Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2004

Schwefel founded Benchmark Learning in 1995, growing the company to become Minnesota's largest technical training company, with over $10,000,000 in annual revenues.   In 1997 and 1998 Benchmark was named to Minnesota’s “Fast 50” listing of the fastest growing privately held private companies in Minnesota.  In 2002 Schwefel was named to Minnesota’s “40 under 40” listing of top executives in Minnesota, under age 40, published by The Business Journal.

Schwefel is also a published author, and has lived remotely with the Hadza and Maasai tribes in Tanzania.  Today he owns and operates the Minnesota Insights Learning Center, and teaches and coaches CEOs, Presidents and Senior Executives using the Insights Discovery System.  Mr. Schwefel  is also a speaker for Vistage, the world's largest CEO organization, and holds a B.A. in Organizational Behavior and Communications from Concordia University.

 

Linda Schwefel, Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2007

Linda Schwefel has been a Sales Manager, and Salesperson with Xerox, where she was the Marketing Representative of the Year in 1987, and later worked as an Account Manager for Versyss Corporation, where she was ranked 2nd out of 700 Sales Representatives nationwide 5 years in a row.  Linda's sales career evolved to conducting full-time sales training, and delivering keynote speeches. This led her to found Keynotes.com, which she ran as a speakers bureau from 1993-1998, also speaking and training to sales teams across the country.. 

With the birth of her second child in 1998, Linda chose to take 8 years off from her sales and speaking career to raise her 3 children full-time, returning in 2007 to apply the Insights Discovery System to Sales Training, and now speaks and trains Salespeople on the Insights Discovery System.  Linda is also a Managing Partner of Insights Twin Cities, and still manages the three youngest Schwefels.

 

 
   

Nancy M. Guthrie, M.A. Education
Consultant and Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2000

            Ms. Guthrie has 20 years experience working within corporate environments focusing on revenue generation, profitability, and productivity through Human Resources, Sales and Customer Service.  She manages organizational effectiveness initiatives, consulting with senior management teams.  Her human resource experience includes eight years working for CNT/McDATA in training and development, organizational change management, employee relations, and employee life cycle management.

Ms. Guthrie also served as Vice President and National Sales Manager for McGraw-Hill from 1994-1997. In addition, she worked for Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. in customer support and sales during a 16 year period, earning her the position of Vice President of Sales.  Her academic achievements include a Master’s degree in adult education, University of Minnesota, Wharton Executive Education program in finance, a Bachelors degree in political science and language.
 

Jane Schuette, M.A. Ed.  Consultant and Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2000

Ms. Schuette serves on the Insights Learning and Development faculty, is a Branded Licensed Practitioner for Insights and a certified life coach. Ms. Schuette manages her own consulting company which specializes in personal and professional development and serves as an adjunct faculty member in the graduate program at St. Mary’s University. She has over 20 years of experiences as a professional educator and has the privilege of serving such clients as the Department of Defense, the EPA office of Water, The U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Fortune 500 companies including the pharmaceutical and food/agricultural industries as well as non-profit organizations. 

Jane’s specialty is helping teams and individuals increase productivity, meet and exceed their goals and problem solving abilities through collaboration, conversation and creativity. She works with clients to unlock this potential through awareness of self and by opening the channels of dialogue with team members as well as internal and external customers. The result is individual effectiveness, influential leadership, and high performance in teams.

 

Dr. Lynn Workman Nodland
Consultant and Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2006

Dr. Lynn Workman Nodland is an Insights Accredited Practitioner. She is also credentialed by ICF (International Coach Federation) as a Master Certified Coach, and has been coaching since 1991. In addition, her training and experience as a psychologist, LMFT and business owner contribute to her coaching skills. Clients and organizations appreciate Lynn's unique combination of credentials, expertise and caring to help them reach peak performance while still maintaining balance in life.


 

 

Dr. Curtis A Levang, Licensed Psychologist/Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2000

Dr. Levang graduated from the Fielding Institute with his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. A practicing therapist for nearly 30 years, his experience includes a variety of settings including private practice, corrections, business, and academia. He has a certificate in PBSP and often helps clients whose experiences with traditional talk therapy leave them wanting more lasting change. In addition, Dr. Levang uses this method in his supervision of graduate students and in business consulting with managers and executives.

His first book, Looking Good Outside, Feeling Bad Inside, uses the story of Adam and Eve to understand the universal nature of shame and how to recover from its affects. He also published Adam and Eve Complex and Become a Better Lover in Thirty Days.
 
Dr. Elizabeth Levang, Grief Therapist/Business Consultant and Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2000

Dr. Levang, a graduate of the Fielding Institute, is a best selling author, a speaker, and a consultant on bereavement. She regularly consults with national bereavement organizations and is co-chair of the 2004 National Perinatal Bereavement Conference. As a grief therapist, she supports individuals and families who experience the death of a loved one, she trains support groups, and she offers post intervention services for schools and corporations. Her business services include career assessments, corporate team building, and board development for non-profit organizations.

Her writings include: When Men Grieve, Remembering with Love, and the Remembering with Love Journal. She co-authored with Karol Dahlof in writing Compassionate Caring.
 

 

Dr. Jean Davidson, Insights Licensed Practitioner

Jean Davidson brings more than 20 years experience in business, education and consulting to her practice.  Her background includes consultation, management and training in the financial services, retail, pharmaceutical, and technology industries.  She has also worked in academic and government environments on small and large group interventions. She has proven success in team development, leadership coaching, business model development, transition planning, culture change and the development and successful implementation of strategic business initiatives.

Jean holds a Doctorate in Organization Development from the University of St. Thomas, with a special research interest in leadership and transition.  In addition to being the Principal for Davidson Consulting, she is an adjunct faculty member at the University of St Thomas and Hamline University. 

 

David Labno, Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2000

Mr. Labno has worked with numerous companies large and small in addition to his work with government, education and other non-profit organizations. He has significant knowledge of creativity and innovation methods, personality and organizational assessment and development processes. He is dedicated to improving people, processes, products and the working environment.

He was previously an Internal Innovation Consultant with General Mills Inc., Program Chair of the Institute for Creativity and Innovation at the University of St. Thomas and Director of the Graduate Program in Applied Creativity and Innovation at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.

David received his Bachelors degrees from The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and his masters degree in Creativity and Innovation from the Center for Studies in Creativity (S.U.N.Y). He has numerous regional and national conference presentations and keynotes as well as a paper in submission to a professional journal to his credit.



Susan Baldwin, Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2005

Susan Baldwin is an Accredited Practitioner for Insights.  Susan has 25 years experience in individual counseling and non-profit management. She has a BS degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Superior and a Masters of Arts Degree in Counseling and Psychology from St. Mary’s University.  She has worked several years with other assessment tools and delivers the Insights Discovery System to executives, managers, and employees both at PPL where she is employed as Deputy Executive Director and for other organizations and non-profits. Susan offers Insights workshops, coaching and counseling services.

 

 

Susan K. Heidorn, Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2003

Does your organization face difficult decisions brought on by growth, changes in direction, and unpredictable external forces?  TeamWorks International is a management consultancy that exists to guide growth, transition and change by developing clients’ insight, alignment and action in turbulent and dynamic environments. We believe that much of the requisite knowledge, talent and experience already reside in most organizations. However, this talent needs to be guided and empowered through self-organization, action learning, systems thinking and effective leadership practices. TeamWorks International has created the unique tools and processes that not only address immediate problems, but more importantly, enable your organization with the abilities and confidence for effective use in the future.

 

Ken Betterton, Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2004

Ken Betterton has nearly two decades of experience as a professional trainer/facilitator and classroom instructor including eight years as the Director of Training for the Utah Department of Public Safety, and formerly as the Corporate Director of Training for the Minnesota School of Business/Globe College.

He has facilitated leadership training for executives, managers, and employees of the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Pfizer Pharmaceutical, the Minnesota State Patrol, the Utah Department of Public Safety, Granite Construction, General Chemical, Utah Career College, Tesoro Oil and Gas, and hundreds of other public and private organizations nationwide.

Ken has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology/Criminal Justice and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Brigham Young University. Ken is also a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Academy.

 

 

Andrea Brockmeier, Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2005

Andrea Brockmeier is an independent trainer and consultant with over 14 years of experience in IT, project management, and team development.  After many years in the training and staffing industries working hands-on with computer and networking technologies, she turned her attention to high-performance technical team development.  Her team-building focus on leadership, skills development, and project management yielded phenomenal results.  Providing training to the technical teams she developed stimulated her appetite for training and she continues to focus her professional energy as a trainer.

Ms. Brockmeier has a strong commitment to program and organizational efforts represented in the non-profit sector, and thrives on opportunities to apply her skills in those areas.  She developed an award-winning community program for refugees in Dallas, Texas, and continues to work with non-profit organizations locally, providing project management coaching.

Certifications include Project Management Professional (PMP), IT Project+, and a number of technical certifications.  Andrea earned a BA in Sociology from North Dakota State University and a MA in Cultural Anthropology from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.  She has been an Accredited Insights Practitioner since September 2005, and is an Associate Practitioner with the Insights Twin Cities Learning Center.

Ken Horst, Insights Accredited Practitioner

Ken Horst has been speaking and training since 1990.  His training experience includes customer service, sales (both outside sales and inside sales) telemarketing, goal setting and personal development and computer training.  Additionally he has been trained as a facilitator in DISC and Myers-Briggs and used both instruments in his speaking, training and consulting business over the years.  Ken also spent 5 years as an instructor for the Dale Carnegie Human Relations and Public Speaking course.  Ken has created and delivered his own program for personal and professional development called, “9 Principles for Managing Personal Changing and Continuous Improvement”. Ken lives in the Minneapolis metro area with his wife and two children.

 


Heidi Garcia, Insights Accredited Practitioner

Heidi Garcia brings more than 20 years of experience in Sales, Sales Management, Sales Training, Talent Acquisition and Employee Development to her consulting business. Her background in broadcast sales has enabled her to step inside the sales world of thousands of different businesses across the country. Although she consults on a wide range of business challenges, Heidi’s passion is team and individual performance and applies the Insights Discovery System in her training and development work. Mrs. Garcia has a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in Communications.

 

 

 

Doug Nodland, Accredited insights Practitioner, Attorney and Executive Coach

Doug Nodland is an accredited Insights practitioner, an attorney and a personal and executive coach.  Doug is a skilled and entertaining presenter who enjoys sharing the Insights Organizational Effectiveness workshops with companies.  He believes that the training process is enhanced when participants are fully engaged and are also having fun.

In addition to conducting Insights workshops, Doug enjoys coaching individuals and organizations to have better communication, improve efficiency and increase the bottom line.  He also consults with businesses and does training seminars in the area of employment law. Doug received his B.A. degree from St. Olaf College, his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and his coach training from Coach Training Institute.  One of Doug's passions is singing and performing.   He currently does solo work and is a member of the Excelsior Gospel Quartet which recently released a CD.

 

Dave Baker, Insights Accredited Practitioner since 2006

Dave Baker brings the benefit of over 20 years of multi- industry and cross-functional business experience to his clients, spanning corporate America, the military, and the Department of Defense.  His work experience as both a Corporate Manager and an Operations Manager gives him a unique insight into personal and organizational development and an inherent ability to relate to all levels of any organization.

Dave was previously the Manager of Global Leadership Development at Hill-Rom Company, a healthcare industry leader for over 75 years.  Dave also held the position of Manager of Global Training during his seven years with Hill-Rom.  During this time, Dave designed and led corporate performance management and leadership programs for over 6700 domestic and international associates and facilitated over 100 Insights Personal Effectiveness workshops at all levels of the organization, including Executive Management, Sales, Service, Legal, Marketing, Manufacturing, Finance, and Operations. 

Dave received his BS degree in Nuclear Engineering Technology from Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey and his MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix.  Dave is also a graduate of the Naval Nuclear Power program and a certified military instructor.  Dave holds certifications in Insights Personal Effectiveness, Leadership Development & Adult Learning, and Behavioral Interviewing.  Dave lives in the Cincinnati, Ohio area with his family.

 

 

 

 

 



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