Patricia harmon

Master Trainer:  Six Thinking Hats

Certified Trainer: Lateral Thinking

About Patricia Harmon, Ph.D. …

Patricia Harmon is an organizational development consultant and works as a business analyst, facilitator and trainer. . She has designed and conducted advanced thinking workshops for North American organizations such as American Re-insurance Corporation, DuPont,  Estee Lauder, J P Morgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Motorola and New York Times.

Patricia helps organizations in their efforts to bring about change by examining business trends and extrapolating from them to help companies create value monopolies.  Having been personally trained by Dr. Edward de Bono, her approach includes the use of lateral thinking, and other outside-the-box thinking techniques, to provide a systematic method to think innovatively.

She also facilitates an Executive Leadership & Development process that is used widely by leading global corporations. This advanced assessment-based technology helps clients assess development needs, link development to business strategy, implement customized training solutions, and measure the results.  Included in her assessment practice is her use of the Emotional Quotient Inventory (“EQ-i”), an assessment tool that measures emotional intelligence as a success factor in business.

Previously, Patricia was the founder and principal of a communications advisory service serving many of the Fortune 500 companies in North America, after having worked in the Biotech/Pharmaceutical industry for ten years.

Patricia  holds an MBA from the University of Toronto Executive Program, an MA in Human Development, and a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development from The Fielding Graduate Institute.  She also serves as an adjunct professor at Cornell University.