Roger Fransecky is Founder/CEO of The Apogee Group, a global management

consulting and leadership development organization founded in 1995. Apogee is dedicated to helping leaders and their organizations achieve their highest level of performance through programs and services for CEO’s and senior leadership teams. Current clients include, among others, two global communications corporations, three consumer products companies, an international venture capital firm, a regional energy/utility company, a global publisher, and two international professional services companies.

Prior to founding The Apogee Group, Dr. Fransecky was Executive Vice-President of ARC International, Ltd., an international consulting company specializing in large-scale organizational change.

Dr. Fransecky’s work with leaders of many organizations evolved from more than four decades as a corporate executive, organizational consultant, clinical psychologist, and university professor. He is regarded as one of the nation’s leading executive coaches and CEO advisors.

Dr. Fransecky’s practice with chief executives and their senior teams focuses on achieving breakthrough business results through Apogee’s proprietary processes, models and technologies.

Working with Apogee’s senior consultants and Partners, Dr. Fransecky helps clients create a compelling personal context for change, a new level of leadership capacity and competence, and the individual capabilities required to achieve and sustain their leadership to achieve organizational performance.

Dr. Fransecky has served as Director of Professional Services for CSPP, America’s largest independent graduate school training professional psychologists, as President of CEL Educational Resources and Senior Vice-President of both Home Box Office/Time Inc. and Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable. He also served as Chairman/CEO of Family Partners Inc., and National Television Workshop, Inc.

His academic career includes serving as a professor at the University of Rochester, University of Cincinnati and New York University, where he also directed NYU’s Video Management and Technology Program. He has designed and produced award-winning television projects for CBS, where he was Senior Consultant to the CBS Broadcast Group.

A New York native, he holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the State University of New York, and a Ph.D in psychology from the University of Cincinnati. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, The Association for Training and Development, and the Academy of Management. He is a licensed Clinical Psychologist.

He serves as the Senior Advisor to the World 50 Executive Group, a global leadership forum serving C-Level executives, and is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Creighton University College of Business Administration. He is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post.

Blog Entries by Roger Fransecky

The New Accountability in Governance

Posted January 23, 2009 | 02:29 PM (EST)


Jan. 21 marks the 216th anniversary of France's King Louis XVI being guillotined for, in effect, being a lousy chief executive officer. If Louis' modern-day, private-sector counterparts don't quickly change their "let them eat cake" ways, many will share the same fate--figuratively, if not literally. Do I hear the echo...

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Don't Do It All!

Posted December 29, 2008 | 11:38 AM (EST)


Just as predictable as the crystal ball dropping in Times Square, January media fills pages and airtime with advice and suggestions for resolutions to begin anew. Every year I hear a litany of well-intentioned resolutions from friends and clients: clean the closet, lose 10 pounds, take tango lessons, get home...

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Let Us Give Thanks

Posted November 24, 2008 | 11:08 AM (EST)


This month as Americans we will celebrate Thanksgiving while still reeling from the most challenging month of economic turmoil in more than a generation. Credit markets are collapsing, jobs are disappearing, 401K plans are eroding, and our leaders seem unable to move from dramatic and expensive "rescue" plans to stabilization....

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Where Have All The Leaders Gone?

7 Comments | Posted October 3, 2008 | 04:10 PM (EST)


The world has been captured by the high stakes drama of Wall Street's bad dream, and the cascading reports of bad news on companies, eroding capital markets, the legacy of greed, big debts and mounting foreclosures, and the threat of our global financial system slipping into panic. As I write...

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The Last Time

Posted September 19, 2008 | 12:40 PM (EST)


Nancy, my dearest wife of thirty years, died suddenly on August 8th. I discovered her at night when I returned from the airport, just two hours after our regular "it's on time, my love" call from Denver. She died without being able to say goodbye. In the dark forest of...

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How To Use Clarity To Get Things Done

Posted August 8, 2008 | 07:08 AM (EST)


Do you have a destination in mind? Are you clear about the outcome you hope to achieve? Have you taken the time to engage and enroll your fellow travelers in your expectations? Do they share a vivid picture of what's ahead? Is there a map to get you there?

Leaders...

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Happiness Is A Choice

Posted July 19, 2008 | 07:21 AM (EST)


Are you happy? Would you know if you were?

Has your definition of happiness changed as you've grown older and more successful? Is it about accumulation, more toys, more exotic travel, new experiences, more of what you thought you wanted? Is all of that making you happy? Or, as...

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How To Improve Your Sixth Sense

Posted June 21, 2008 | 07:09 AM (EST)


When I first met my wife, it wasn't "love at first sight" but I knew with a kind of knowing that we were kindred spirits, that we could grow to love one another. I had an instinct that wouldn't waver. (I confess it took me a bit of time to...

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The Power Of Choice

Posted May 15, 2008 | 03:41 PM (EST)


I feel assaulted by the unrelenting television, radio and print commercials for the race to the White House, but yesterday I voted in a local primary election in a simple elementary school classroom. We all stood in line to vote the privilege of being able to participate in a democracy...

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Want Results? Engage!

Posted April 17, 2008 | 12:44 AM (EST)


The raw energy of interaction spawns and sparks great conversations and fuels business opportunities and growth. It just takes the decision to engage. In our newly (and accurately) coined recession economy, it's certainly not business as usual anywhere.

It's time to sort for some genuinely inspiring role models.

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Your Life as a Story

Posted April 2, 2008 | 02:31 PM (EST)


In our Practice, we often focus our client's attention on the "doing-ness" of their work, and the subtle subtext, in beliefs and behavior, that animate their actions. In all of this work, I am struck that we don't spend more time helping our colleagues and clients take more pleasure...

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Lighten Up!

Posted March 14, 2008 | 01:11 PM (EST)


What a week! Oil prices hit a new record with gas prices prodding people to a Prius, "Mr. Clean" Spitzer again surrenders to the seduction of power, informed by bouts of narcissism and obsessive-compulsive behavior, and we finally "get" that we are in a recession.

We need a laugh....

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Just Listen To Me!

Posted February 26, 2008 | 04:51 PM (EST)


Over the past few months I have been struck by the velocity of popular articles on praise, happiness and the collective indulgence of the twenty-somethings who seem to have their own rules and expectations. FORTUNE Magazine recently featured a cover story, "Manage Us? Puh-leeze" with the subtitle, "You raised them,...

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How To Conquer Your Fear

Posted February 8, 2008 | 12:09 AM (EST)


This has been a rough week in the markets with many of us watching our investments go South while a fragile coalition of our national political leaders posture and plan a stimulus plan that we'll have to pay for down the line. The bickering and name calling in the primaries...

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Cleaning Out The Clutter

Posted January 2, 2008 | 11:44 AM (EST)


The New Year is still fresh and 2008 feels a bit like a new suit that doesn't quite fit.

Each New Year offers me the chance to clean out the clutter and try on something new.

I've spent two weeks tossing out stale files, sorting through old books, forgotten papers,...

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How To Better Master Transitions In The New Year

Posted December 18, 2007 | 05:56 PM (EST)


How about this year you change the pattern and don't make that long list of resolutions, but instead consider peeling back what you thought about change for yourself...in your eating, exercise, or in your life?

Some of us are kicked into life's surprises, and into changes in our professional lives...

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Ho Ho Ho, Or Not

Posted December 2, 2007 | 06:18 PM (EST)


Three weeks ago I watched as they hung the huge crystal decoration at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in Manhattan while hundreds of pre-holiday shoppers crushed the sidewalks. All over the country newspapers are loaded with special sales, flush with inserts on holiday concerts, tree-lighting ceremonies and...

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