About Us

The Brzycki Group (BG) is a human development and learning organization. BG empowers people to realize their dreams and to give them the tools in life to create, design and manifest their own unique potential. We are a well-respected international educational consulting company whose long-term success has been built on these guiding principles: trust, integrity, and service. For over twenty years we have provided expert counsel and advice to those special people who want to know and manifest their own unique potentials in life. Our work is based upon the latest research in human development, educational psychology, and educational philosophy.

[ Henry G. Brzycki | Elaine J. Brzycki | Karen Kugel ]

Henry G. Brzycki, Ph.D. is President of BG and is actively engaged in designing and teaching all of BG’s programs, as well as establishing consultation relationships with students and their families. Henry studied organizational psychology at Babson College, and he is a summa cum laude graduate of the Tufts University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with a Master of Arts in educational psychology and philosophy. Dr. Brzycki earned his Ph.D. in educational theory policy from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Brzycki's work focuses upon self system and positive psychology applications in adolescent development. He has served as a faculty member at: Clarion University of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State University, and Franklin Pierce College, teaching educational psychology, human development and learning, and other foundational courses.

Dr. Brzycki has over twenty-five years of experience as an educator, counselor, and consultant. He has committed his life to ensuring that young people learn about themselves and manifest their unique purpose and dreams for their lives.

Dr. Brzycki is a member of: American Counseling Association (ACA); Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD); National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC); National Career Development Association (NCDA). He has consulted to private and public schools, served at the Board of Trustees level, and consulted to teacher education programs and psychologists in private practice.

Elaine J. Brzycki is Co-Founder of BG and currently serves on the Board where she strategically guides the future of BG services. Elaine graduated from Wellesley College as a Wellesley Scholar and attended Oxford University in England. Elaine developed many of BG's leading programs while earning her Ed.M. at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She has over twenty-five years of experience as a counselor and a higher education administrator. She is committed to empowering young people's self-expression and greatness.

Karen Kugel, Ed.M., CSCS, is director of Youth College Connections, a Massachusetts-based business partner of Brzycki Consulting Group. Karen has 20 years of experience in training, management, marketing research and consulting. Karen is a Beirne Memorial Foundation Scholar and holds a masters’ degree in human development from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She graduated with honors in psychology (focus in counseling and urban studies) from RutgersUniversity. She is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and the National Association of Admissions Counseling (NACAC).

BG calls upon contextual learning, which means enabling people to learn through experience the context they want to create for themselves, their lives, their futures, unlimited by past psychological assumptions, cultural backgrounds, family histories, or any self-imposed limitations. Positive psychology also informs our educational strategies, which emphasize and build upon individual strengths.

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