Patricia Wiklund

Pat Wiklund has helped thousands of executives, entrepreneurs and professionals change their minds and their behaviors to achieve the goals and successes they've always wanted. When it comes to increasing organizational and personal effectiveness, there's no one better than Pat Wiklund for telling it like it is, and getting people and organizations back on track.

Pat's lived her own story of rebuilding her business from scratch...doubling her income each year for three years...and then quadrupling it. She's been in the trenches and knows from first hand knowledge what it takes to make it in challenging economic times.

For over 20 years, Pat was a therapist who helped hundreds of clients live fuller, more satisfying lives. She still focuses on opportunities and possibilities, rather than insisting on delving into every unpleasant, unfortunate situation you've experienced.

For the last 15 years, Pat has shifted her focus to writing and organizational consulting. She's revitalized intact work teams where conflict and mistrust had shut down productivity and effectiveness. She's been called in to rehab executives who've gotten way off track, and helped others find a new way to make a living. She's been challenged to raise the morale of a support staff, and worked on a task force for the Secretary of the Treasury.

Her favorite: Facilitating the development of entrepreneurs, executives and professionals from managers to leaders.

Pat has purposely kept a diverse client mix, finding the issues and challenges in one client or industry inform the solutions she can facilitate in another.

She's served clients in:

Government: federal, state, local
Industry: high tech, financial, healthcare, pharmaceuticals
Small business: real estate, retail, construction, sales
Education: higher ed, secondary, elementary
Professional: Practices: dental, medical, psychotherapy, consulting

Of course she has degrees:

Ph.D. Fielding Graduate Institute, Clinical Psychology (Alumni representative to the Board of Trustees, 1999 - 2002)
M.A. University of Chicago, Human Development
B.A. California State University at San Francisco, Education

And, media appearances:

Oprah (twice!), Phil Donahue, Maury Povich, Leeza, Sally Jesse Raphael, 20/20, TechNation, plus dozens more local and national television and radio programs.

Quoted in New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Entrepreneur, Self, San Francisco Business Times, as well as dozens of local and trade newspapers and magazines.

As a professional speaker for over 20 years, Pat has appeared before hundreds of audiences as small as 5 and as large as 2,000; as far away as Johannesburg and as close as San Francisco.

Book:  Taking Charge When You're Not in Control (Ballantine, February 2000) is her latest book.