With a Masters of Science in Sociology from Purdue University, Renee has focused her attention on organizational effectiveness in each of her roles. Key achievements while Director of Learning & Development at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. included the implementation of a new Management Development curriculum to over 2000 managers in sales, operations and service organizations. Renee worked with leaders to establish The Leadership Challenge®, which became a basis for how to lead at Schwab.

Personal Assessments
- Personnel Decisions’ Profilor® 360 Assessment (Master Facilitator)
- DISC/PIAV
- Myers Briggs Type Indicator
- Highland’s Ability Battery

Team Effectiveness
- New Leader/New Team Integration
- Team Assessments (incl. DISC/PIAV)
- Team Development
- Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Renee Harness coached me on my DISC-PIAV results. Her preparation, knowledge and candor could not have been better. I feel much more “intelligent” around the terms I hear around the organization and she provided some great consulting on what the results mean and I how I can best utilize what I have learned. I was very impressed with how she tailored the information for me, as it is going to be very helpful for me and for my team.

-Sales Director

Renee is a great facilitator and able to get everyone at the table to talk in the most difficult subject areas. She helped us to become a more effective work team much quicker than the normal teaming process would have taken by helping us get past the hurdles of getting to know one another’s work styles and what was important to us very fast.

-Compensation Consultant

Renee has a passion for helping leaders and their team members be more effective. The work that she did for this group demonstrated her ability to work with diverse groups of people, from corporations to government and community organizations in order to impact the results of teams.

-Director of Talent Management & Branding