Andrea Pacholek

PCC | Founder & President, Mindful Workforce Solutions

Andrea Pacholek, PCC is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, Health & Wellness Coach, and Holistic Nutritionist with more than two decades of experience in human capital strategy, executive coaching, and leadership development. She blends strategic business insight with a human-centered approach to help coaches and leaders decode behavior, elevate performance, and build sustainable results.

As Founder of Mindful Workforce Solutions and a member of the CEC faculty, Andrea partners with coaches, executives, and people-first leaders to decode workplace behavior and turn insight into intentional talent decisions, stronger leadership, and cultures that thrive. Her expertise spans the full employment lifecycle, including recruiting, onboarding, leadership development, executive transitions, employee engagement, corporate learning, and strategic workforce planning.

With direct executive experience including mergers and acquisitions and extensive collaboration with boards and C-suite leaders across industries such as finance, healthcare, education, government, electronics, and technology, Andrea brings a practical and well-rounded perspective to organizational success. Her long-standing work with the world’s largest community of chief executives provides rare insight into the behaviors that drive high-performing teams.

In 2026, following the retirement of founder Michael Pacholek, Summit Assessment Solutions merged into Mindful Workforce Solutions under Andrea’s leadership, bringing Summit’s legacy of research-based assessment and advisory expertise fully into Mindful Workforce Solutions practice and the CEC community.