Peter Wenzell

Experience

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  Banco Bozano Simonsen

  Apr 1988 - May 1990

  Manager US$200 million Brazilian Investment Fund

  Brazilian Investment Bank with US$200 million in foreign funds invested in the Brazilian stock market

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  Instituto Biodomus

  Oct 1988 - May 1993

  Partner and Co-founder

  We established the fundraising for the environmentally endangered Atlantic Rainforest with US$1.5 million in funds from Conservation International, MacArthur Foundation, Shell, Exxon International and Aracruz Celulose. We worked with the Brazilian government to implement the first Debt for Nature Conversion in Brazil.

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  Bromelia Expeditions

  May 1990 - May 1993

  Co-founder & Owner

  Inbound Tour Operator in the new field of ecotourism. We prepared and packaged ecologically sound tours for international environmental foundations - World Wild Life Fund, The Nature Conservancy and Sierra Club. We helped establish the foundations of this sector of the tourism industry in Brazil for tours in the Pantanal, Amazon and Atlantic Rainforest.

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  Consultant, Trainer and Writer - Spanish & English

  Jun 1993 - now

  Consultant and Writer

  Three manuscripts: Humanist Economics, The TJ Male Hypothesis and La Economia Humanista. One published article on Teachers Compensation and Incentives.Audits and designs high performance compensation and incentive structures for effective organizational governance. The systems elminate rates of absenteeism, employee turnover and medical costs above 2%. Two articles published on Neo-institutional Economics of Douglass C. North.

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  Small, Medium, Large Public and Private Organizations

  Mar 1995 - now

  Consultant Compensation & Incentives

  Audit and Design of Systems - Remuneration, Incentives, Human Resources, Communication, Leadership and Teamwork Courses

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  Universities in Chile and Brazil

  Mar 1995 - Dec 2009

  Professor - MBA and undergraduate Business Schools

  Pofessor - graduate & undergraduate business school program on organizational design and development. Original research on economics - incentives and compensaton, monetary and non monetary according to global, group and individual incentives. Measurement of the effects on an organizational, employee and family and the society.

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  Spanish/English Training - Southwest U.S. firms with Spanish First Language Employees

  Sept 2010 - now

  Owner

  MBTI - application of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator in English and Spanish. Use of MBTI for personal, group and organizational work. Seminars/Training - Leadership, Communications, Client Attention and Team Work Evaluation of incentives and compensation system through the analysis of the monetary and non-monetary incentives at three levels - global, group and individual together with an evaluation of the quanitative and qualitative effects on the organization's profitability and sales. This is followed by a realignment of the incentives to be coherent with the stated objectives of the organization. Show less