About Dr. Kurt K Weiss 

Dr. Kurt K. Weiss is a managing partner and founder of Executive Management Consulting, Inc. a Knoxville, Tennessee based research and consulting firm specializing in organizational and management development. With more than 20 years experience as an organizational/management and training consultant, he has worked with thousands of individuals from over 500 major organizations to develop their personal and professional effectiveness in management, leadership, teams, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Dr. Weiss works with clients using a variety of approaches: one-on-one, in training courses on:

• Management development

• Team building

• Leadership

• Communication and interpersonal skills

• Organization-wide interventions

He works as a facilitator with individuals, groups, and organizations to effectively cope with growth and change. One of his specialties is executive coaching and development and he has worked with CEO’s, presidents, and senior vice-presidents and their teams.

He has worked in the U.S. with such major organizations as Schlumberger, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Lucent Technologies, NCR, Saturn Car Corporation, IBM, BellSouth, Medtronics, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Internationally, Dr. Weiss has offered numerous workshops and consulted with many organizations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and South America. Some of his international clients include: Schlumberger, Management Centre Europe, the Middle East Management Centre, Kuwait Petroleum Companies, Gulf Bank of Kuwait, Saudi Methanol in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian Texaco in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and the American Management Association in Argentina.

He is the primary author of Transformative Mapping, an assessment tool, which helps individuals, teams, and organizations to identify current workplace performance levels and then, assists them in creating ways to perform more effectively. He is currently writing a book on storytelling as a management and organizational development tool

Dr. Weiss and his wife Anna make their home in Knoxville, Tennessee. He received his doctorate in individual and organizational development from Vanderbilt University. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Tennessee for the last eight years teaching individual and organizational development.