About Renita

Renita C. Wellman, M.Sc.

Organizational Psychology Ph.D. courses completed Spring 2009
Dissertation anticipated completion date: Spring 2011, Walden University
Research: Leadership and Efficacy in Virtual Teams

Renita has supported the success of United Nations leaders, college professors, leaders in ecology and community, award-winning film directors, best-selling writers, television producers, actors, musicians, and international students. She has served as professional advisor to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) leaders and assisted them at international functions in the US and Europe.

Professionals–including entrepreneurs, community leaders, visionaries, artists and writers–have sought out Renita Wellman as a creative catalyst and a positioning consultant.

Areas of expertise: Vision and idea development.  Business development and getting to branding. Leadership and sustaining vision.  Training managers of virtual teams.  Individual meaning in context.  Group processes.  Strengths analysis.  Integrating strengths into momentum, vision and purpose.  Transitions in jobs, relationships, and moves.

Idea development. Renita uses an “awareness on, hands off” process, to ensure her client has room to develop thought processes and vision with complete authenticity and originality.  This is essential for personal development, business development, and branding/marketing.  Following background information, the process typically takes about 1 to 2 hours, with follow up appointments on request.  This process has been reported by clients to save hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars compared to other systems.

Leadership & executive development – quick. Renita works with busy executives, who appreciate quick results.  Executives on a tight schedule enjoy using the Wellman Method and PTP assessments to quickly zero in on strengths, pertinent themes, and to revisit objectives and goals.

Virtual team management. Renita teaches managers the principals of group processes, building trust, combining minds and knowledges through communications, to increase clarity of communications and productivity.

Individual in context. Renita develops individual strengths and group/team processes in organizations to enhance well-being and productivity. She is certified in giving feedback for PTP assessments, a valid and reliable assessment developed in Denmark for businesses and personnel placement. The assessment is a 30 minute online multiple-choice questionnaire, which yields a printed report, followed by a 45-60 minute feedback session in person/phone or Skype to interpret the results.

Transitions. Renita uses appropriate synthesis processes to integrate significant life and career transitions. She uses interviews and/or PTP assessments in conjunction with her method.

Continuous study interests: Communications, group success, group dynamics, group development, and virtual team management.

Creative Pursuits

Renita is an accomplished pianist, photographer, landscape (assorted media, including oil, watercolor, and pastel) and portrait painter (oil on board or canvas). She has written numerous articles on the arts for the Ojai Valley News and has contributed to two best-selling self-help books: Beop Jong’s May All Beings Be Happy and writing “One Small Tear” for the Korean poetry anthology Love Like You’ve Never Been Hurt, both edited by best-selling author and poet Shiva Ryu.

A Personal Note from Renita, January 10, 2011

My grandfather was from a German-Russian Mennonite farming community in Tsarist Russia. He proved to be artistic and intellectually driven, and became an accomplished violinist and student at the University in Moscow.  With my grandmother, he raised a family of 10 children in Canada, where his counsel was privately sought by church clergy and town officials.  When I was small, he lifted me up to his shoulders, from where I could see his farm and woods.

Since my adolescence I have worked actively with creative artists and community and business leaders toward positive social change.  I found that as we connect and contribute, we are healthy and whole. Finding our talents and strengths, allows us to find our place from which to create new worlds and better lives.

Social networking represents this need to join with others toward personal and collective emergence. To do this is our genius and it is something that we do together.

I hope that you will join me in this exciting emergence of new consciousness of creativity and community in 2011.