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GUTWENGER CONSULTING

Services & Solutions

Executive & Talent Search

Executive and talent search is a crucial process for organizations to identify and attract top-tier candidates for senior leadership positions and key roles that require specialized skills and expertise.

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NLP & Gestalt Coaching

Our trained professionals help individuals to identify and achieve their personal and professional goals by providing guidance, support, and accountability.

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Crisis as a Change

We help transform crisis into an opportunity for growth and transformation, rather than just a negative experience to be managed. This program can be booked for individual sessions or as a workshop.

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Self Expression & Language

Self-expression through language is a powerful creation tool, allowing us to shape our thoughts, feelings, and experiences into a tangible form that can inspire, connect, and transform ourselves and those around us. This program can be booked for individual sessions or as a workshop.

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Health & Wellness

Let us get you to a state of overall physical, mental, and social well-being, characterized by the absence of illness and the presence of positive lifestyle behaviors. This program can be booked for individual sessions or as a workshop.

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Hi, I am Franz Gutwenger

With my firm Gutwenger Consulting, LLC, I have been providing consulting services to Wall Street firms since 2001. I was a Principal and managing director in 2 fund structures - Emerging Managers and Emerging Managers Futures Fund.


As an NLP Master Practitioner - I was trained in the NLP Center for Advanced Studies in Tiburon by Leslie Cameron Bandler, Lynne Conwell, David Gordon and Michael Lebeau.


I received a 2 year training in Gestalt in the Zentrum fuer Sozial and Individual Therapie in Penzberg/Munich, Germany (Center for Social and Individual Therapy) with Leland Johnson (Gestalt Institute Houston).


Several times I was invited as a guest speaker at international events and quoted in Bloomberg Business and Hedge Fund Publications.


I am an expert skier, traveler, and father of 2 beautiful daughters.


Recent Blog Posts

By Franz Gutco August 12, 2023
A couple of years ago I was on the sales advisory board of a leading AI company which focused on selection and management of employees with the goal to create better employee satisfaction, increase productivity and to reduce turnover. The idea behind it: Let algorithms determine the general psychological profile of candidates and match them to the “right” teams. Who is the best fit? What personality traits are useful and desirable to have in certain areas of an organization? What components are lacking and could be purposefully introduced. Perhaps we will want to add a certain level of internal competitiveness, or may want to have some employees which are options oriented versus having a procedures orientation. No doubt AI has some usefulness, however the biggest hurdles so far are legal and compliance issues. But what is not taken enough into consideration is our human capability to grow, transform, change and adapt. We may not be aware of it, but we are running literally 50-60 mental programs (perceptional filters) in our background which will determine which of our perceptions are being selected for attention. This happens mostly on an unconscious level. As a consequence these background programs frame our interpretation of events, shape our experience and therefore determine emotions and reactions. Last weekend I offered a retreat workshop, addressing and practicing some of these perceptional components and the impact they have upon our lives. Particularly, how we use language to create our reality – sometimes empowering but much more often limiting. This was done in combination with sensory awareness of our physical body and mind in the form of yoga. It was a beautiful and deeply gratifying experience for me and the participants involved - a holistic approach to our transformation. While AI has developed in a breathtaking speed and will have its usefulness in a wide array of topics and circumstances, let’s keep the human aspects in our life and take more control. We do not need to have machines and algorithms shape our experience. Rather let’s use it for verification and overlay purposes in data analytics and organizational design, not as a standalone tool. With good and steady practice we can become aware off and identify which mental programs are running us in the background. Then we can choose the ones to keep and utilize in a contextualized ecological fashion. It’s a matter of sensory awareness.
February 21, 2023
From my series: Limiting thought patterns
February 20, 2023
How to Use Crisis as an Opportunity for Personal Growth and Positive Change
February 20, 2023
How to Train Your Mind for Success and Achieve Your Goals with a Positive Attitude
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