David Patrick

Dipl. Mechanical Engineer/ MBA/ Organizational Developer (NTL)
Coach & Consultant

Business experience

  • 25 years‘ line management experience, much at Board/Director level
  • 25 years with respected, global businesses (P&G, GM, Johnson & Johnson)
  • Over 20 years‘ Operations experience, leading and developing teams
  • Over 12 years‘ experience successfully leading major change programs
  • Success record with start-ups, divestments/closures, turnarounds and due-diligence/acquisitions
  • Coach to entrepreneur teams in McKinsey Start-Up Competitions („Venture“) – 2006, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2020

Education & qualification

  • NTL Institute: OD Practitioner Certificate2016
  • Tavistock Institute: Practitioner Certificate in Consulting & Change Management – 2015
  • International Institute for Management Development –IMD (Lausanne): Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives2008
  • IMD (Lausanne): MBA – 1995
  • UCL (London University): BEng. (Honours) and MSc. in Mechanical Engineering – 1986-1990
  • Royal Navy Officer School (Dartmouth, UK) – 1985

Accreditation & Licensing:

  • Agile Team Coach (ICAgile)
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
  • Insights Discovery

Consulting & training focus

  • Improving communication and teamwork in groups
  • Accompaniment of executives and teams to independently achieve peak performance and success
  • Pragmatic consulting, through real experience as an internal company executive
  • Creating high performance teams in remote, multi-cultural, and/or matrix environments
  • Leadership coaching and training
  • Licensed Insights® Discovery Practitioner

Extract of reference sectors

  • Financial services
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Photo- and videotechnology
  • Dentaltechnology
  • Trade
  • Software & digitalization