Pat has been for over 20 years an Organisation Development and Training Consultant, working at all levels of organisations, from board and top-level management to those most responsible for delivery and organisational success. Her clients have included international firms such as GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, BP, Continental Tires AG, EDF Energy, DHL, GE Plastics, EXXON MOBIL, American Express and British Airways, and such institutions as OXFAM, the World Food Programme, The City of Stockholm, Home Office & UK Border Authority, The National Health Service, The British Film Institute and The European Commission.
Pat’s career includes stretches as an internal consultant in Shell UK’s highly regarded Organisation Development and Change Support Unit in London, and in the Organization and Management Development unit at Hoffmann La Roche’s New Jersey headquarters.
More recently she lead the practice side of an integrated research/consulting programme at The Work Foundation, the UK’s leading independent authority on work & its future, which aims to improve the quality of working life and the effectiveness of organisations by equipping leaders in government, industry, and the public sector with evidence, advice, and new thinking.
Pat serves as Strategic Resource Development Advisor to Oxford Change Management, which was established in 2006 to help international organisations, NGOs, and community based organisations increase their effectiveness in their efforts to build a more inclusive, safer, healthier and sustainable global society.
The central themes of Pat’s work are enhancing the capacity of organisations and the individuals in them to respond to rapidly changing environments, building the collective learning and expertise of key groups to create responsive, innovative, entrepreneurial cultures, and developing strategies to augment and enhance stakeholder participation
Pat holds an MA from Antioch University and an MSc from the London School of Economics. Her professional training includes London’s Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, and the National Training Laboratories of Bethel, Maine, of which she is a Member. Pat was part time lecturer in the University of Reading’s Professional Management Programme, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce. Her latest publication is PEOPLE, PROJECTS and CHANGE – Managing People in Projects for Change, co-authored with Simon Standish (2006).
To Designed Learning Pat brings her expertise in conducting workshops which focus on enhancing the consultant’s capacity and impact in the face of increasing pressures on organisations and the people who work in them, on increasing staff effectiveness, and in helping create customer-responsive, empowered organizations that are good places for people to work.
