Dr. Carl Spetzler

Chairman, Strategic Decisions Group

Specializing in strategy development, business innovation, and strategic change management, Dr. Spetzler has developed creative business strategies for major financial institutions, capital-intensive companies, high-technology manufacturers, and systems businesses. Over the past 15 years, he has been a leader in designing an innovative strategy development process that helps corporate leaders cope with the lack of explicit strategic alternatives, deal with the complexities of uncertainty and risk over long time horizons, and achieve lasting change. In addition to serving as the chairman of the board for SDG, Dr. Spetzler leads strategy assignments to redirect and restructure major US corporations and to create revolutionary new products and strategic alliances. Before founding SDG, he was the director of the Financial Industries and Strategic Methodologies Center at SRI International. He received an MBA and a PhD in economics and business administration and a BS in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.