Ken Settel, MD

Kenneth M. Settel, M.D. is an Executive Advisor with Crenshaw Associates. He is a Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst who works with businesses and organizations to develop leadership success, resolve organizational conflict and promote operational effectiveness. He consults to Leaders, Teams and Boards from large corporations to start ups and family businesses. He has assisted with leadership transitions and worked to create more effective teams through deeper awareness of individual and organizational dynamics and processes, strategic focus and communication.

In addition to his work at Crenshaw, Ken is a member of the Boswell Group, a psychoanalytic organizational consultation group. For over 25 years he has worked with Harvard Risk Management, supporting physicians and their organizations. Earlier, Dr. Settel worked as an associate at the Levinson Institute, an organizational consulting and executive education group.

Ken graduated from Columbia College in New York, Dartmouth Medical School and the University of Washington Medical School. He is the author of CEO Psychology: Who Rises, Who Falls, and Why (Harvard Medical School Guide, 2014).