Patrick J. Mckenna Email & Phone Number

My experience includes being a trusted advisor and sounding board to help direct NEW Firm Leaders to successfully navigate their transition through the first 12 months in their role. I serve as their Coach; their Cheerleader; their Venting partner; and their Challenger. I have helped guide over 80 new Firm Leaders to help ensure their initial success. I offer you a partnership with a seasoned advisor who has real-world experience and can bring effective, proven strategies tailored to your specific needs, not just theories. Together we can overcome the challenges you encounter daily.My work in leadership and strategy has taken me to 47 different countries. I also proudly serve as a non-executive director (NED) or advisory board member with a variety of professional service firms and incorporated companies. A sparing partner and sounding board, I help by asking the right questions, confronting orthodoxies, unleashing the intrapreneurial spirit, building strategy alignment and enhancing profitability. My aim is to instigate innovation, provide independent strategic insight drawn from my years of experience, and support effective governance.INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE? May I invite you to schedule a complimentary discovery call. It’s a no-commitment opportunity to discuss your goals and see how I can help enhance your leadership and strategic success."YOU ARE INVITED TO VIEW AND SCRUTINIZE OVER 100 CLIENT TESTIMONIALS AND ENDORSEMENTS PUBLISHED ON MY WEBSITE - MOSTLY UNSOLICITED"​

Salvador, Brazil

I am pleased to serve as a Member of a Faculty comprised of legal and business professionals providing 12 postgraduate courses, covering face-to-face, hybrid, live learning and distance learning modalities. Training provided by professionals for professionals. These courses are specifically designed to help attendees understand the most effective management practices in the world to help transition your office to a performance level you always wanted.

Stamford, Ct

Chief Executive Group now helps CEOs find the right expert adviser. The right outside adviser can help you improve processes, develop new products or provide access to new markets. Unfortunately, the mid-market has been dramatically underserved by the advisory community. Until now. CEO Trusted Advisers, newly launched by Chief Executive Group, gives you speedy access to peer-recommended experts in executive coaching, succession planning, strategy, talent, operations, technology, finance and M&A and more.https://ceotrustedadvisers.com

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

I was selected to improve the content published by HBR as well as help chart the future direction of Harvard Business Publishing. When called upon I provide feedback to editors, preview new content, and weigh in on ideas from HBR as well as those from the wider world of management and leadership. I was also honored to participate in the 2017 and 2018 McKinsey Award Selection for best HBR article.

New York

Of Counsel: The Legal Practice and Management Report (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business) has distinguished itself as the finest management report for law firms and corporate law departments by helping firm managers solve financial, business, and practice problems. Monthly, it provides cutting-edge insights American legal professionals need to maintain a competitive advantage in a global marketplace.

International

Quantumrun Forecasting is a research and consulting agency using long-range foresight to help organizations thrive from future trends and stay ahead of disruptive market shifts.The Forecaster BrainTrust is comprised of subject matter experts from a range of disciplines and industries worldwide. These experts have been individually invited to collaborate on projects to provide multidisciplinary insights and clients use our services like an outsourced research, strategy and content partner to provide them with new ideas and industry intelligence.

The Law Firm Leaders Group is a moderated group EXCLUSIVELY for and populated by firm chairs, managing partners and qualified executive committee members. Our membership, while international, hails primarily from U.S. firms, all over 100 lawyers in size and this is a “closed” group with none of the discussions being visible or searchable on the Web. Discussions are designed to provoke, explore and share the best and NEXT leadership practices and techniques for provoking change and innovation within your law firm.

Canada

True Balance is the Canadian leader in providing Regenerative and Anti-Aging Medicine, Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy and Medical Aesthetics from five clinics throughout Alberta and British Columbia.

Sequim, Washington

Intraspexion is the world’s first “Deep Learning” service able to provide clients with an early warning of potential litigation disasters. The holder of 8 Deep Learning patents, the National Law Journal named Intraspexion® in the inaugural list of Legal AI Leaders (February 2018). The Artificial Lawyer listed Intraspexion in the inaugural edition of the AL 100 Legal Tech Directory (August 2018). And Microsoft accepted Intraspexion into Microsoft for Startups (September 2018).https://intraspexion.com

This is an online executive development program consisting of highly interactive sessions with MBA topics, at MBA level, by MBA faculty and guest star leadership experts; designed for those seeking cross-functional management and leadership development. Each workshop consists of 1 hour of effective online lecturing and is presented LIVE in our online study rooms in order to provide you with inspirational ideas, penetrating insights, and practical advice from MBA faculty and leadership experts. If requested by the professor, each workshop can be prolonged up to 30 minutes.

Moving past business as usual, Alterity is a national provider of Mediation, Arbitration and Dispute Management Services. Led by a diverse and experienced team of neutrals and industry executives, their comprehensive, integrated, and client-centered model is designed to resolve the problems of today and tomorrow. Where others try to secure a deal, they work toward a resolution. Their diversity is their distinctiveness. It ensures that they hear parties in need, relate to parties in dispute, and earn trust by welcoming parties into a more collaborative resolution process.

International

I am one of a dozen Mentors throughout North America designated under this special IBA Program to provide guidance, knowledge and law firm leadership skills to help selective Mentees.

International

Legal Business World is an international company operating a global platform that produces and shares publications (articles, eMagazines and eBooks) read in over 32 countries; TV and Radio covering the business of law and development of the legal profession. Their Legal Knowledge Portal offers over 900 articles, contributed by over 400 authors, categorized under 40 topics, and appealing to 190K readers a month. Every year LBW chooses Thought Leaders – professionals who distinguish themselves through: opinionated publications, being recognized as an authority in a specialized field and/or whose expertise is sought after and often rewarded.For more information - https://youtu.be/PRP8IroYMSM

Pleased to have acted as an Advisor to help lunch the North American group, select the initial speakers for three consecutive Webinars and serve as the Moderator.Managing Partners’ Forum is a well-established and successful forum and resource in the UK and parts of Europe. The purpose of The Forum is to support the growth, productivity and prosperity of the professional services sector. The Forum brings together professional firm leaders to share ideas on strategic leadership and management excellence with each other. Unlike other forums or associations, the members are from all disciplines of professional services – e.g. accounting, law, engineering, architectural, property advisors etc.For more information - www.mpfglobal.com

Jackson Lewis P.C. has over 900 attorneys in 60 locations nationwide serving clients across a wide range of industries and is recognized as an AmLaw and Global 100 law firm. With a reputation providing premier workplace law representation to management, the firm has grown to also include leading practices in government relations, health care, data analytics, cybersecurity and sports law. A commitment to client service, depth of expertise and innovation draws clients to Jackson Lewis for excellent value-driven legal advice.

International

Premonition is a powerful, proprietary AI technology that both sources and mines legal big data, such as court records domestically and internationally allowing consumers of legal services to answer commercially critical questions, such as which lawyers usually win before which judges (read: likely case outcome).

The LAB (the Managing Partner Leadership Advisory Board) is a forum designed to provide recently appointed/elected firm leaders with a source for obtaining pragmatic advice on their leadership questions and critical burning issues. The LAB is comprised of nine distinguished current and former law firm leaders and is supplemental to the First 100 Days masterclass program held at the University of Chicago.

I became the sole founder of the very first Canadian-based management consulting firm, Edge Consulting Associates Inc. in 1983, formed to provide prescriptive counsel to address the strategy, governance and marketing issues faced by professional service firms with a primary focus on the legal profession - which later became The Edge Group in 1987 and subsequently transformed into Edge International in 2000 with a global footprint including partners resident in 6 countries.

Edmonton, Canada Area

I launched a privately owned company specifically to be an Applicant to the Canadian Radio Television-Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in an effort to obtain an AM Radio license and broadcasting operation located in Edmonton.

I was responsible for overseeing the departments of Corporate Affairs and Shareholder Relations; Legal Services; Strategic and Organizational Planning; Personnel and Human Resources; and Community Television Programming in one of Canada’s pioneering cable television and telecommunications publicly listed group of companies.

The youngest GM in the organization's history, I served as special advisor to the local Chambers throughout the Province, facilitated special meetings and conferences for Corporate CEOs to discuss relevant issues of importance, and helped compile and deliver policy recommendations to the Alberta Government on behalf of our Alberta’s business community.

Education record

Patrick is among the first alumni of Harvard’s Leadership in Professional Service Firms program - 1996.

Education record

McKenna did his MBA graduate work at the Canadian School of Management and also holds professional certifications in management (P.Mgr.)