About Patrick

EVERYTHING BEGINS WITH YOU

For 24 years, Patrick has guided executives at a crossroads. Talented, accomplished people who’ve checked every box yet feel further from where they want to be. They’re exhausted from proving themselves, frustrated by generic advice, and ready for something fundamentally different.

The problem? Most career and leadership advice is backwards. We’re told to sell ourselves, showcase every strength, and reinvent constantly to “fit” the market. The result? Everyone looks the same. Generic. Easily forgettable.

Patrick diagnoses what’s holding you back, navigates complexity with clarity, and delivers strategies tailored to your specific challenges, creating immediate, practical value that compounds throughout your career and organization.

In 24 years, Patrick has worked with 4,000 executives at Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Nike, Boeing, PwC, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and 400+ organizations. They now lead healthier, more satisfying, successful careers and organizations.

What Makes Patrick Different

He integrates deep expertise in executive and enterprise transitions, identity-based leadership, neuro-axiology, communication strategy, and decision architecture, with his proprietary IDM Framework (Identity, Direction, Momentum), PRD Process (Prioritize, Rank, Define), and scientifically validated VQ Assessment.

Every engagement is shaped around your challenges, your goals, and your context. Through strategic clarity and tailored guidance, executives shift their mindset and measurably improve how they think, communicate, decide, and lead, with transformation that’s immediate and lasting.

You Don’t Need a Decade to Get Where You Want to Be

When you lead from clear identity and direction, and move consistently in that direction, transformation happens in weeks and months, not years. Decision-makers choose you for alignment and fit, not just credentials. Teams become more engaged. Performance improves measurably.

Patrick helps you get where you actually want to be, without the exhaustion, without the performance anxiety, and without wasting years on strategies that don’t work.

How Patrick Began

As a kid who grew up in a small town, I didn’t want to be held back, so I decided to leap forward.

At 15, I began without resources or connections, only clarity, conviction, and drive. Within six years, I was shaping national conversations through the highest elected youth leadership roles in the world, holding more youth positions in more organizations than anyone in history. I represented U.S. youth and nonprofits, presented at 430 events, and served on boards alongside Fortune 500 CEOs from GM, Chrysler, Gillette, Marriott, Delta Airlines, Lockheed, Martin Marietta, McDonnell Douglas, AT&T, Caterpillar, Ketchum, and others.

I noticed patterns in respected leaders, and realized the “sell yourself” model of leadership is broken and backwards. Real leadership doesn’t ever start with credentials or performance metrics. It starts with identity and direction.

Ever since, I’ve helped executives build and lead the careers they actually need and want, not the ones they’re told to pursue next or think they should have.

From 1992 to 2002, I founded Riverside International and served 80 diverse clients. From 2002 to 2011, I directed the national and global operations for five organizations, while serving as a principal advisor to dozens of others. Then, in 2011, I launched Intrinsic Matters.

In 24 years of coaching, I’ve guided and advised 4,000+ executives through pivotal transitions at Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Oracle, Nike, and 400+ organizations.

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Awarded ‘LinkedIn’s Best Executive Coach’, LinkedIn Career Expert, LinkedIn Insider, and LinkedIn 2024 Top Voice in Executive Coaching and Thought Leadership.

He is in the LinkedIn Top 1%, has nearly 30K followers, and manages LinkedIn’s World Bank Consultants and Advisors Group (18K+ members) and LinkedIn’s ProFinder Professionals Group (1.8K members).

Patrick holds a MSc – Master’s in Management from The London School of Economics, and a LLM – Master’s in International Law from The University of Edinburgh.

Executive Coaching

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Corporate Identity | Leadership | Culture

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VQ Assessment Certified Expert

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Why 'Selling Yourself' Keeps You Stuck

Your Target Is Not Even Yours

Imagine shooting hundreds of arrows with no idea where your target is. How effective would you be?

This is what it’s like to build a career without clear identity and direction. Taking action without knowing who you are or where you want to be. You become a busy, all-direction shooter with lots of flying arrows, expending enormous effort for slightly better than average short-term performance while rarely getting closer to what you actually want.

Most executives do exactly this.

They “sell” their skills, strengths, and years of experience. They constantly rewrite their resume for diverse employers to prove they can be a “good fit.” They chase jobs based on what they’re qualified for, not what they want.

They’re exhausted, frustrated, and getting nowhere.

They say: “It’s the market. It’s ATS keywords. It’s AI. It’s my resume. Help me!”

No. It’s none of these things.

The reason this doesn’t work is that this approach is backwards. The “sell” mentality we’ve been taught, which almost everyone follows, has never worked well. It leads to average candidates, average jobs, and misalignment.

It cannot lead to the career you actually want.

The Wrong Questions that most people ask:

What jobs can I get with my skills and experience?
How can I move into the next or a better title?
How can I get into a famous company?
Who will pay me what I want?

These questions keep you reactive, generic, and stuck.

The Right Questions to ask instead:

Who am I?
How do I want to be known?
Where do I want to be no matter where I am now?
What is a good fit for me?

These questions make you strategic, distinctive, and in control.

Identity and Direction Change Everything

Identity: Knowing who you are and what you value provides a foundation that prevents you from reinventing yourself in every room. It helps you think clearly, stay grounded, and make consistently better decisions.

Direction: Understanding where you want to go allows you to prioritize, build strategies, and take next steps that are relevant and valuable, hitting aligned targets that take you where you actually want to be.

Momentum: Consistent movement in that direction turns clarity into credibility, conviction into authority, and effort into impact.

When you lead from clear identity and direction, decision-makers choose you for alignment and fit, not just credentials. Alignment happens from day one, not after years of proving yourself.

Why This Is Hard to Do Alone

While the concept may be easy to understand, it’s extremely difficult to practice and master without expert guidance.

In 24 years, I’ve helped 4,000 executives clarify their identity, define their direction, and position themselves strategically for roles that matter, not just what’s available. They’ve stopped shooting arrows in every direction and started hitting targets aligned with where they actually want to be.

How Long Is It Taking You to Get Where You Want to Be?

If the answer is “too long” or “I’m not even sure where I’m going,” it’s time to stop proving yourself and start leading from who you actually are.

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“[Patrick] challenged me and helped me overcome communication barriers to put forward my best self, and he was masterful in finding the most efficient way to outline experience…..This was an extremely valuable investment in myself and my career. I thoroughly recommend Patrick”