Fortune 500

With his signature mix of inspiration, humor, storytelling, and no-nonsense practicality, Pat has spoken to millions of leaders at national and global conferences and is consistently the top-rated keynote speaker at major events.

Whether he's addressing a Fortune 500 company, professional sports organizations, government agencies, nonprofits, schools, or churches, Pat's down-to-earth nature and insightful concepts are sure to resonate.

The world's foremost expert in organizational health and teamwork, Patrick's books have sold more than 6 million copies, and his work has been featured in Fortune, USA Today, Bloomberg, Businessweek, Forbes, Harvard, Business Review, to name a few.

And you might wonder, what is he doing here? And I probably would be too.

Just put your files in a folder.

But I guarantee you, if you walked into a Fortune 500 beverage company tomorrow and asked to see the comprehensive compliance folder for their top selling product, it would take a task force three weeks to assemble it.

Oh, it absolutely would.

And they would likely find gaps while assembling it.

So it's not like I stopped loving God or worshiping Jesus.

I just wasn't doing it in a public capacity anymore because I was so frustrated, even with the business of the church that I was seeing that was run like a Fortune 500 company.

And the pastor's the CEO, and you got this board of execs, and they make all these decisions.

And so much of it was money-based.

So I worked in corporate for almost 15 years.

And that time I worked for Fortune 500 companies.

I worked in tech, started my career in e-commerce before I moved into tech consulting.

And I found the content creation space a a little over 3 years ago, and started on TikTok.

I've worked in product design, customer marketing.

I used to lead product design, UX.

I Fortune 500 tech.

So if a tech company or someone in customer marketing or someone in customer experience comes to me and they want to work with me because now I've built this platform and this audience who trusts me because I have this lived experience, you're paying me for that experience and that knowledge.

Huge guy, huge guy.

And he was the first African-American to go on the board of a Fortune 50 company, and that was General Motors.

And he went on the board in 1975.

And at his first board meeting, he said that we as American companies cannot continue to do business in South Africa as we have been doing it.

What convinced you that the traditional model was broken? Or I guess, what were you setting out to solve where this come from? And yes, please get into your background.

I know there's some cool, you know, Fortune 500 type companies that led you to

it.

Yeah.

So much higher grade.

They mentioned that the company they've been working for is a Fortune 500 med tech company and that they've had three different positions there.

So it sounds like they've been moving up in the ranks.

Outside of work, they started a fund about five years ago to help families affected by cancer.

Yeah.

And now everybody's starting to realize, wow, I mean, even businesses, Fortune 500 companies are starting to really grasp.

Wow.

If we shift things in the mind, you just get monumental changes in your life.

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Let's do this.

OK, we're just going to have this conversation.