For more than 20 years, Nancy Weidenfeller has found that there is a common element in the work that excites her: helping organizations achieve performance results by focusing on the people issues. She loves to partner with leaders on building their organization's ability to assess its current level of functionality and change it to achieve the desired goals. She has extensive background in organization development, talent management, human resource systems design, team development, and women enterprise leaders.
Nancy joined the firm in 2004. Prior to that, she was a senior consultant in the Human Capital Group with Watson Wyatt Worldwide and a principal with Davies Consulting, Inc. where she worked with a vast array of companies and industries. Nancy also served as director of the Office of Quality Management at the U.S. Department of Energy and NSP, where she was responsible for implementing strategies to create an organizational culture emphasizing excellence, continuous quality improvement and customer service.
Her client work includes organizational effectiveness and change work with Ameriprise, Coca-Cola Enterprises, The International Monetary Fund, Liberty Diversified, Malt-O-Meal Company, Noridian Mutual Insurance Company, Samueli Institute, University of Minnesota Physicians, and Xcel Energy; and consulting with Best Buy, Thrivent Financial, and U.S. Bank on women in management.
Nancy earned a B.A. in Business/HR Management, certificate in psychology from the Adler Institute, an M.A. in Organizational Leadership from the College of St. Catherine, and a Doctorate of Education in Organization Development from the University of St. Thomas. She is Certified Senior Professional Human Resources Practitioner for Life, and is certified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Birkman Method. She currently serves as an adjunct instructor on the faculty of St. Marys University and the University of St. Thomas, and taught at the Kyiv Mohyla Business School (HRD) in Ukraine. Published articles include: "Leaders Invest for Change" (The Public Manager, Summer 1996), Celebrating Diversity (Public Utilities Fortnightly, June 15, 1992), and Breaking Through the Glass Wall: The Experience of Being a Woman Enterprise Leader (2008 AHRD International Research Conference).
Away from the office, she loves spending time with her friends and family. She is also active in many professional organizations and has served as an examiner for the Presidents Quality Award program and the Minnesota Quality Award process. Her other interests include fishing, golfing, gardening, playing the piano, and spending time with her husband, Steve, and King Charles Spaniels, Murphy and Charlie.
Favorite Work:
Designing and implementing processes that create lasting change