Consultant Biographies
PAT DREW
Pat Drew is an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, Inc., whose areas of expertise include top-level coaching, managing change/organizational resilience, and preparing executives and organizations for transitions. Pat is an innovator in Positive Work Environment, Managing for Performance, Managing High-Risk Assignments, and Resilience Training. She is an expert in the trend toward an older workforce and its impact on HR policy. Her work leads to engagement and enhanced business results.
Pat's work supports global leaders and their teams with tools to take them through transitions and challenging times. For example, prior to foreign assignments, she provides briefings and workshops for employees, families, and managers to facilitate the rapid integration of these individuals into their new work location. Then, when their assignment is complete, she works with them to ensure their successful reentry. She teaches executives to thrive in high-stress assignments, such as the Katrina disaster, where she prepared and debriefed all the writers and photographers who covered the hurricane for The New York Times.
She has extensive experience coaching Fortune 100 senior leaders for rapid career change. She coaches them to hone their skills, find their passion, and understand their personal style in order to achieve greater satisfaction and career success.
Pat was human resources director at The New York Times during the turbulent 1990s, when she developed coaching programs across five divisions, leading to the resolution of high-cost performance problems. Pat has enhanced workplace productivity by designing and delivering change management training across organizations. She has created and led cross-functional teams that predicted future trends and recommended solutions at the corporate policy level.
While organizational development practice leader for a mid-size consulting firm, she developed internal protocols for coaching programs provided to Fortune 100 companies.
Earlier in her career, Pat was a manager and director of training at the Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University. She was an instructor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and an associate professor of social work at New York University. Pat has been a presenter at Harvard's Neiman Foundation Symposium, "Journalists and Trauma," and a speaker on career management at Columbia's Business School. She has been a member of the Work Life Leadership Council of the Conference Board and an expert resource for numerous publications, including Crain's New York Business, American Journalism Review, and Editor and Publisher Magazine.
She holds master's degrees in psychology, social work, and European history.