Fascinated for most of his life with how people get results when they get together, Kerwin Steffen specializes in helping organizations and groups of all kinds to achieve breakthrough performance. He has been writing, speaking, consulting, and presenting workshops on organizational effectiveness, leadership development, and personal mastery for more than twenty-five years. Kerwin has served as a teacher, a broadcaster, a professional musician, a member of the top-management team of a regional hospital and clinic and, for more than a decade, as a professional consultant.

   In 1994, he established his own firm, K W Steffen Associates. The Spirit Edge™ Team Technology, the team building system he developed, has helped groups in the U.S. and abroad to effectively manage and enhance their Shared Spirit Systems and lay an enduring foundation for breakthrough results.

   Kerwin has provided performance consulting and facilitated learning for a broad cross-section of businesses, nonprofits, and community-based groups—from organizations involved in global manufacturing, financial services, health care, tourism, and downtown development to others dedicated to secondary and post-secondary education, animal welfare, wildlife management, civic journalism, volunteer service, race relations, and ministry to college students. He has designed and facilitated wide-ranging public participation processes for civic groups in large and small cities throughout the Midwest.

   Leadership materials that he developed have been used by hundreds of organizations, including ITT Sheraton, Holiday Inn Worldwide, Aid Association for Lutherans, AT&T School of Business, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Boise Cascade, Citicorp, CIBA Corporation, the U.S. Defense Contract Management Commission, Delco Electronics, Quill Corporation, Discover Card Services, Federal Express, and the Weather Channel.

   Kerwin serves on the board of directors of the Bank of New Glarus and has served on the boards of not-for-profit organizations as well.

   A sought-after public speaker, Kerwin calls on his years of management experience, his passion for high-performing groups, his insight into human dynamics, and his spirited musicianship to energize his audiences.

   He and his wife, Marilee, have lived in New Glarus, Wisconsin, for more than forty-five years. They have two married children and two grandchildren.