Jeff Wetzler

Jeff Wetzler

CEO and Learning Expert

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Jeff Wetzler is the co-CEO of Transcend, a nationally recognized innovation organization, and an expert in learning and human potential. He combines unique leadership experiences spanning more than 25 years in business and education as a management consultant to the world’s top corporations, a learning facilitator for leaders around the world, and a chief learning officer at Teach For America.

Wetzler earned a doctorate in adult learning and leadership from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in psychology from Brown University. Based in New York, he is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and is an Edmund Hillary Fellow.

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