Geo Hanzlik, MSW has acquired 20,000 hours of professional practice as an executive coach and psychotherapist. He holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW) with a specialization in family systems, highlighting his skill in navigating complex interpersonal relations.

Background

In 2007, Geo established a private psychotherapy practice in Boulder, Colorado, where he provided clinical treatment for individuals, couples, and families. His expertise includes trauma resolution, mood disorders, family systems, and conflict resolution. He worked in close collaboration with clinical treatment teams consisting of psychiatrists, wellness experts, addiction specialists, and primary care doctors.

In 2014, Geo joined Techstars Boulder as an executive coach, supporting early stage founders while helping develop the incubator’s initial founder coaching program. He then relocated to NYC to work full time as an embedded coach in a fintech startup while also assessing founding teams for a VC shop. In 2017, he joined boutique coaching firm Neuberg, Gore, and Associates as a senior expert and pivoted fully into executive coaching.

From 2009 to 2016, Geo developed and directed programs at the Men’s Leadership Alliance (MLA), a non-profit organization providing resources and programs to men of all ages. Geo also spent 17 years studying indigenous healing methods in the Brazilian Amazon.

Currently, Geo works with private and public companies to support development of their CEO's, founders, executives, and leadership teams through consultation, coaching, facilitation, and mediation.

Geo lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn with his partner Andrea Lauer and their dog Patti (Smith). His pedal assist bike remains his preferred method of transport in NYC between Red Hook and Manhattan. He owns 8 surfboards across both coasts, 5 of which are stashed in (client’s) garages in Ventura and San Diego. In free time, he checks on his two college age children who are apparently “studying” at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.