Doug Muetzel has been the CEO of Wesley Spectrum for more than 17 years. In that time, he has spearheaded a lot of change, including the recently launched Connections, Assessments, Resources, Evaluation and Support (CARES) program, a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation and service-planning program for the children with autism and their families Wesley Spectrum serves.

Here he talks about the struggles that families who receive an autism diagnosis face, as well as what attracted him to Wesley from the corporate world