Bob Vecchiotti, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Consulting Services-Leadership Development
President, Strategic Initiatives
Bob is an experienced business advisor and coach with nearly 30 years of business and leadership development experience. His role is to market and apply the products and services of BeamPines to businesses in Northern Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. He brings a proven combination of skills from business and psychology. His years of experience began in the aerospace industry where he had increasing responsibility from a project leader in advanced systems to manager of business and long range planning at the corporate level.
Bob formed his own business advisory firm in 1980 and has worked primarily with executives in major corporations and business owners. He has successfully helped this target population develop strategies for expansion, build more effective management teams, develop future leaders, prepare executives for their next challenges with extensive coaching, and increase efficiencies through process improvement and organizational restructuring. His firm served organizations in the food, health care, construction, manufacturing, and financial sectors. He’s had major assignments at companies such as Ascension Health, AT&T, Anheuser Busch, Chiquita Brands, General Electric, Heartland Bank, H.J. Heinz, Monsanto, and Von Hoffmann Press.
Bob earned a national reputation for his work in business and people growth, and applying systems thinking to meet management challenges. He has been featured in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Business Journal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Investor’s Business Daily, The Small Business Monthly, and the Washington Post. His business insights were shared for nearly 20 years in a monthly commentary on KWMU (NPR) in St. Louis. He continues to prepare a monthly commentary for his clients.
As an active reservist for 23 years, he worked with senior officers and research scientists in the Pentagon on a variety of projects resulting in increased retention of officers, innovative computer based training, improved performance of small units, and in better preparation of general officers for the challenges of the post-Vietnam era.
Bob earned a B.S. in Sociology from St. Peter’s College, an M.A. in Psychology from Fordham University, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from St. Louis University. He and his wife Dorothea have three adult children.
Bob is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Organizational Psychologists. As a community volunteer, he’s the past-president of several major community and charity boards. Hobbies include cooking, reading biographies, visiting interesting places, and watching NASCAR races. His office is in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Email: bvecchiotti@beampines.com
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