Chelley Patterson Email & Phone Number

Snoqualmie, Wa, Us

Own and operate a small, collaborative firm offering a range of human-centered, evidence-based consulting, design, facilitation, and coaching services to help clients intentionally create engaging and enabling places to work, grow their talent, and create value for the business and the world.

Bend, Oregon, Us

Invited to partner with the Seven Summits team providing clients with change consulting, innovative program design, engaging facilitation, and insightful executive and team coaching. Seven Summits Consulting focuses on the systems that make up an organization and helps clients apply a holistic approach to Strategic Planning, Operational & Financial Review, Succession Planning/Exit Strategy, Vision Development, and Future Leader Development.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Lead the consultancy’s coveted relationship with Amazon’s Global Real Estate and Facilities as an embedded Organizational Development & Leadership Development business partner — supporting GREF leadership worldwide and its vendor partner JLL through simultaneous, multi-year operating model & organizational design transformations. • Joined the organizational design & leadership development consultancy as a senior consultant — acting as a close advisor to firm leadership, building out the company’s client-facing leadership development and coaching discipline, and overseeing a high-value book of business.• Earned a strong reputation as a one-on-one strategic partner — asking the hard questions while integrating a wide array of capabilities and tools like quantitative and qualitative culture & leadership assessments, whole systems faciliation techniques, and transformative leadership coaching to help shift mindsets, catalyze change, and enable client success. • Work closely with clients to navigate the complexities of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent downstream business turbulence — introducing strategies to shift client mindset & culture, maximize people engagement, create meaningful virtual experiences, and ensure business continuity.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Promoted into a team & center co-leadership role — internally led operations, financial management, and marketing while serving as a trusted thought partner, OD/change consultant, leadership coach, and workshop designer & facilitator for executive teams at dozens of on-campus and off-campus client organizations including the VA, West Point, Amazon, and Catholic Health Initiatives. Led a team of six and served as client engagement and contract manager.• Established strategic partnerships with gaming studios to study the impact of gamification on authentic leadership & team development — creating multiple board games and bleeding-edge interactive learning experiences for clients to effectively elevate human capability in fun & engaging ways. Designed experiential team and leadership development activities involving improvisation, rowing, boating, and on-the-ground equine interaction.• Partnered with the Executive Director to identify & define the success factors of transformational change within organizations — conducting executive interviews with top healthcare organizations and Alaska Airlines to map the trajectory of success, resulting in the publication of a case study and book. Used data on organizational change readiness and leadership assessment from our change management consulting to conduct applied research and refine the Center's change management methods.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Recruited by top transformational leadership expert Dr. Bruce Avolio to help launch a world-class self-funded consulting center for leadership & strategic thinking — playing a key role in creating & packaging evidence-based leadership development as a compelling coaching & OD consulting offering for corporations and institutions. • Instrumental contributor in designing, practicing, and training/supervising other coaches in a repeatable coaching methodology to optimize developmental readiness and accelerate leadership development — cementing a foundational model used by scores of top organizations & leaders to this day.• Co-designed and facilitated dozens of interactive workshops for graduate student programs and external clients annually — harnessing engaging training materials, personalized assessments, and one-on-one & group coaching to embed skills that translate & transfer to the workplace with measurable ROI in mind.

• Stepped away from the corporate world to devote full-time energy to motherhood while giving back to the community through volunteerism, pro bono consulting, and civic roles.• While away from the workforce, consistently approached by nonprofits, civic organizations, and municipalities to provide consulting support — unlocking continued opportunities for harnessing coaching & strategic advising.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Brought on by the Blue Cross Blue Shield-owned digital health solutions company during a high-growth period to serve as an internal consultant & business partner — charged with establishing new corporate-wide learning & performance development functions for professional & leadership staff.• Instituted leadership and project management competency models — implementing & customizing a bespoke network-based 360 assessment solution while hiring & directing a team of coaches to work one-on-one with 30+ leaders to facilitate positive outcomes and accelerate change. • Regularly approached by leadership to direct & advise on important issues — helping the newly formed PM Office work through PM certification-related policy and ROI issues while being tapped by the CEO to help develop a Balanced Score Card and executive dashboard to improve cross-departmental strategic planning.

• Brought on by the technology outsourcing & services company to support the VP of Learning & OD and lead a 3-member team in developing & rolling out its first formal business & non-technical competency models, instructional design, and distance learning to elevate employee capability and increase retention.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Approached by Marketing Communications leadership to serve as a coach, advisor, and mediator in resolving complex organizational & communications issues that had arisen between the Global MarCom Group, four formerly autonomous business units, and vendor partners following corporate restructuring.• Introduced process consultation to diagnose and resolve the cross-departmental conflict — enabling progress to resume on conceptual development and physical construction of Solutions Demonstration Centers in the US, UK, and Asia.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Hand-picked to play a key role in establishing the company’s new Financial Services Knowledge Lab in London — serving as the client-facing SME for innovation & collaboration and developing an experiential environment to inspire advanced technology research and predict consumer-related issues in the future of retail banking.• Helped curate a diverse virtual team of the company’s best & brightest technology and consumer experts from around the globe — playing a key role in defining what’s possible and pushing the envelope at the bleeding edge of virtual interactive & Internet-based technologies.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Recruited to serve as an internal consultant within the banking & retail technology company’s think tank — reporting to renowned UX pioneers Dick Heneman & Tom MacTavish and supporting 9,000+ R&D engineers worldwide to accelerate team innovation & creativity in developing bleeding-edge technologies.• Developed a strong skillset as an inquiry-based consultant while transforming the internal team assessment function into a customer-facing offering — engaging with market-leading companies and garnering critical experience in placing the end-user at the center of all decision-making.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Organizational Behavior

Master Of Science - Ms, Human Resources & Organizational Behavior

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Management