Patti’s first book The Intentional Networker: Attracting Powerful Relationships, Referrals& Results in Business, is a substantive, yet easy-to-read field guide that offers readers fresh, proven strategies and tips for attracting and building valuable connections and relationships with greater purpose, polish, presence, and productivity. “The world needed a book about how to network better rather than more,” Patti says.
Shortly after it was published The Intentional Networker was named a Finalist in ForeWord Review’s Book of the Year competition and swept the entire non-fiction category in the IndieDiscovery awards.
With a strong background in communications, promotion, and talent management ? and a lifelong appreciation for the value and benefits of relationships that began when she was a child ? Patti presents, consults, and facilitates workshops, rich conversations, and events all over the country. She is a veteran of the TEDx stage and has worked with the Texas Conference for Women, Women Entrepreneurs of Minnesota, Texas Healthcare Association, Hewlett Packard, Dell, Phillips66, Microsoft, Rodan + Fields, Carlisle Etc. LLC, BazaarVoice, A+ Federal Credit Union, and many others clients. Her audiences include executives, managers, high potential leaders, sales and project teams, entrepreneurs, and other leaders in many industries.
Patti holds leadership positions in the National Speakers Association (NSA) at both the local and national levels. She is a founding board member, a past president, membership chair, and founder of the writers group of the Austin chapter. She also serves on NSA’s Chapter Leadership Council. Here she trains and advises chapter presidents and leaders and develops strategies to grow strong local NSA chapters and leadership. She is part of the 2015-16 team that rewrote and revitalized the training curriculum for the Chapter Leadership Institute of NSA.
Patti has earned numerous awards from the Association of Women in Communications and was a finalist for the Austin Business Journal’s Profiles in Power / Women of Influence Award. She was a nominee for Working Mother magazine’s Raising a Ruckus Award and is also founder of what is now known as Freelance Austin, a consortium of freelancers and solopreneurs in Central Texas.
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When Patti isn’t working with her clients, writing, deepening her knowledge of human interaction and leadership, or working on her next book on conversation and connection, she is cycling, swimming, traveling, sipping coffee or wine, and spending quality time with friends and family.
For more information, please visit Patti’s LinkedIn profile and her website at www.intentionalnetworker.com