Fielding Alum Gisela Wendling Promoted to CEO of Grove Consultants International

Gisela Wendling, Ph.D.

As CEO and senior consultant at The Grove Consultants International, Dr. Wendling supports leaders, teams and their organizations in realizing visionary futures. She helps her clients befriend the unknown, embrace change as transformational opportunity and support others in doing the same.

Dr. Wendling works across all levels of systems, from coaching individual leaders and their teams to partnering with clients to design and guide whole-systems change and large cross-organizational stakeholder initiatives.

In her thirty years of experience and doctoral work in human and organization systems, she has integrated disciplines from across the social sciences—specifically cultural anthropology, social, humanistic and analytical psychology, organization and leadership development theory.

Dr. Wendling’s passion for learning and evolving conceptual understanding that is grounded in practical experience has led her to write The Liminal Pathways Study, being the co-author of Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change the Leading as Sacred Practice e-Book.

Dr. Wendling was born and raised in Germany, has lived in Canada and Australia, and has spent most of her adult life living on the West Coast of the United States. She earned her Ph.D. from Fielding Graduate University in 2005.

My experiences with indigenous people across four continents has left me with a high regard for their traditional wisdom and the need to support cross-cultural knowledge exchanges. I currently reside on land of the Coast Miwok Tribe in Petaluma, California. I recognize the genocides, trauma and displacement they have faced, and honor their future of self-determination.