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HOW CAN YOU AND YOUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
BENEFIT FROM EXECUTIVE COACHING AND MANAGEMENT CONSULTING?

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I help my clients make change happen – to make significant and lasting improvements to their performance, realize their most important goals, and create legacy.

Patti Cotton

For more than 25 years, Patti Cotton has been working with successful executives, business owners, and teams in the private, public, and social sectors around the globe to increase their ability to meet challenge and change.

Schedule a Complimentary Discovery Session!

A discovery session is a 30-minute phone session with Patti to help you define your vision and goals, assess any challenges keeping you from reaching those goals, and to determine how Patti can help you.

When You Work With Patti,
You Can Expect Results

AT THE InDIVIDuAL LEVEL

“A true leader inspires, influences, and impacts to make change. This is not merely business – it is legacy.” 
– Patti Cotton 

You are driven by purpose, and you recognize that in order to meet the future, you must continue to sharpen those behaviors that enable you to lead at your best. Who are you as a leader? Are you aware of the behaviors and skills you need to sharpen in order to meet change effectively – and to help others to do so?

Patti utilizes best proven methodologies and practices in leadership coaching and human development to help you identify and fortify your strengths and to take advantage of your growth opportunities, and make those personal shifts that are key to supporting your effectiveness as you lead others.

AT THE team lEVEL

“Change requires three things: the knowledge of what needs to change, the strategies for implementing it,
and the relentless and courageous action to integrate it.” – Patti Cotton 

How well your team plans, works, and produces together are key to the enterprise’s success. And how each of you shows up as an individual contributor to help the whole group excel is paramount. Over time, even the best teams become complacent, reactive, or develop certain habits and mindsets that interfere with highest performance and outcomes.

How does your team rise above this to generate stellar results that support company goals?

Patti works with you to identify those group and individual behaviors and work styles that inhibit greater success. Using a blend of consulting and group coaching, she will then help you to design and implement a plan of action that will foster your team’s growth and produce results as it supports the enterprise.

AT THE enterprise lEVEL

“The future is already here. Mastering the lens to make sense of it, the agility to dance with it,
and the wisdom to learn from it in order to move forward is paramount.” – Patti Cotton 

Today’s company is not the enterprise of tomorrow. As leader, you must be able to see the horizon, work with the volatility of the changing landscape, and keep all levels of the business headed in an aligned direction. ​This requires an actionable strategic plan that supports your purpose, culture, and goals.

Statistics show that, because of several factors – the uncertainty of the marketplace, emerging disruptive technologies, and more – the strategic plan you are currently using to move forward may be obsolete, even if it is 18 months old.

How do you assess this to make the adjustments necessary to remain on top? How do you turn your plan into action at every level of the enterprise so that the pieces important to the whole are aligned and working well?

Patti works with you to ensure that your business remains viable and competitive. She will help you to learn in a systematic way how to evaluate and update your current strategic plan, and show you how to turn this into a plan of action that can be easily broken down and applied at every level of your organization. Your company’s divisions, departments, and key areas of responsibility will be aligned and working together to meet the organizational goals and objectives.


patti stands out from the crowd
in 3 important ways


When you seek an expert consultant these days, you have many from which to choose. There are three compelling reasons Patti is uniquely suited to serve her clientele.

Her Background Experience.

"Choose an expert who has walked in your shoes, and who has the agility and
formal training to apply that experience to new situations." – Patti Cotton

​For more than 25 years, Patti held leadership roles, both stateside and abroad, in diplomatic relations, private, public, and social sectors. This experience has helped her first-hand to know what it takes to lead. She understands the unique challenges and opportunities that confront leaders in any key decision-making role.

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Additionally, her formal education and training in organizational development and professional coaching means that her clients enjoy proven approaches that work, incorporating neuroscience, behavioral, cognitive, and adult development theories; and social and emotional intelligence methodologies.

Her Ability to Develop People Through Process.

“The best plan will not work unless it is actionable, and people implementing it are able to do so.” – Patti Cotton​

​Whether working with individuals, teams, or the entire enterprise, Patti is able to keep the big goal firmly in sight as she works with clients to create an actionable strategic plan to get there. She is skilled in helping to identify the critical pieces and processes that will best work, and to support its implementation. She knows, however, that unless the people implementing the plan are able to do so effectively, business results will compromised. Therefore, she seeks to intentionally develop greater leadership abilities in her clients as they work with her to meet the organizational goals.

Her Ability to Produce Results With a High ROI. 

​“As a leader, I require results reflecting a high ROI. My clients expect the same.” – Patti Cotton

​Patti uses cutting edge, proven disciplines that produce results and a high return on investment. Research reports that the average ROI from working with a qualified executive coach like Patti is 7-10 times the investment, with many reporting more, in the world of larger-scale initiatives. When Patti moves from the role of coach to consultant, she holds that same expectation of herself. Her ability to develop the people implementing the plan results not only in meeting projected goals, but also in greater system-wide effectiveness, heightened engagement, and higher productivity.

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    ​​Teamwork and Collaboration
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    ​​​Women’s Leadership Development

To accommodate your needs and preferences, Patti offers one-to-one personal coaching, group coaching and training, VIP days, and retreats.


Schedule a Complimentary Discovery Session!

A discovery session is a 30-minute phone session with Patti to help you define your vision and goals, assess any challenges keeping you from reaching those goals, and to determine how Patti can help you.

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