Kenneth Settel, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst by training. He has worked with individuals and organizations around improving manager-subordinate relationships, establishing feedback and evaluation processes, leadership development, management coaching, and creating effective partnership teams. He has also worked with executives individually, assisting them in managing effectively, and in developing their own career. He is also a principal and cofounder of Spectrum, OED, Inc., a consulting firm that works with organizations to facilitate and develop effective organizational processes, improve interpersonal relationships, and assist with leadership development.

Dr. Settel has a private clinical practice in which he treats adults, children, couples, and families. He is a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he currently teaches a course on Leadership to fourth year Harvard psychiatry residents. He is a staff member at Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital, and is also on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England. Dr. Settel is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is currently chairman of the Committee on Corporate and Organizational Consultation.

Prior to 1992, for over ten years, Dr. Settel was an Associate of the Levinson Institute (TLI), an organizational consulting and executive education group. At TLI he taught in the leadership development program, worked with executives, lawyers, and physicians, and consulted to numerous businesses and organizations. His consulting work has included management coaching, performance appraisal and feedback, team-building, and facilitating organizational change. He participated in the development of a program on Work Family Balance with the Center for Creative Leadership, in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Prior to 1996, Dr. Settel was on the staff of the Center for Physician Development. At the Center for Physician Development, he assisted physicians through career transitions, malpractice lawsuits, and consulted to physicians in organizations around management issues and personal career development.

Dr. Settel is a graduate of Columbia College, Dartmouth Medical School and the University of Washington Medical School. He has completed residency training in both adult and child psychiatry at McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School, and completed training as a psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East.