Patricia Berg, CEO

• Executive Coach, Consultant and Trusted Advisor
• Consulting, Operations and Human Resource Leadership Roles
• Strategic Planning and Team Development Consulting
• Entrepreneurial Coaching
• Career Development and Career Transition Expert

Patricia is the Chief Executive Officer of Career Partners International, Professional Edge. She has spent the past 25 years of her career coaching leaders who are making transitions either within or outside their organizations – on-boarding to new positions, transitioning to a new leadership role, or leaving a position or organization. Patricia’s coaching approach helps leaders to:

• Leverage their best talents and fit
• Earn the respect and trust of customers, colleagues, and direct reports
• Become the kind of leader who retains and develops talent and builds top performing teams
• Focus on what matters most through disciplined reflection, practice and action
• Develop leadership presence
• Understand the importance of self-management in being a good leader
• Achieve better business results

Presentations

• Developing and Demonstrating Your Professional Value, Special Libraries Association
• Leadership, Management Principles Class, Metropolitan University
• Maintaining Your Marketability, Saints Networking Group
• Executive On-Boarding, PDI Executive Forum
• What Great Employers Need to Know About Downsizing, St. Paul Chamber of Commerce
• The Psychological Impact of Job Loss, American Psychological Association
• Effective Interviewing for Contractors, SAP
• Career Planning: A Matter of Alignment, Barr Engineering
• Finding Your Place in the HR Marketplace, Carlson School of Management
• Midlife Job Search, Dakota County
• Change Resilience, Medical Alley Human Resource SIG
• Career Experiences, Panel Member, The College of St. Catherine’s

Conferences

• Speaker, Non-Profit Management Conference for Hennepin County Contractors – 2007
• Human Resource Management
• Speaker, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology – Toronto – 2002
• The Opposite of Selection: How to Exit Employees

Contributions to Publications

• HR Magazine, The Face of the New Workforce, Tapping the Silver Mine
• CNN Money, Will you ever retire?
• Wall Street Journal On-Line, Getting a Merit Increase at the Office
• Wall Street Journal, Work and Family Mailbox, Expert Contributor
• Star Tribune, The Effects of Downsizing
• Television, Cameo Interviews on Downsizing and Career Transitions

Professional Affiliations

Member, National Association of Career Development
Member, International Association of Career Professionals
Member, Woman’s Club
Member, Normandale Advisory Committee

Background

Patricia began her career with Peavey Company, a Fortune 500 organization in Minneapolis. During her 15 year tenure with Peavey Company she held positions in administrative operations, recruiting, and employee relations. She was the first female manager at Peavey, and was passionate about providing opportunities for women to develop and emerge in leadership roles. While her children were young, Patricia took a sabbatical from traditional employment and found herself launching an entrepreneurial endeavor. In 1982 she joined Personnel Decisions International as a Career Coach and Manager. The primary focus of her practice was in career transition and change resiliency. She subsequently joined Career Dynamics, Inc. in 1991 as their Director of Outplacement and progressed to Vice President of the Individual Effectiveness Practice. In 1997 Career Dynamics was purchased by Right Management Consultants. Patricia continued in her role as Vice President for the Outplacement and Field Consulting Practice. In 2000 Patricia was invited to return to Personnel Decisions International as their General Manager of the Career Management Services Practice. In 2006 Patricia and her business partner purchased the career management practice from PDI and it operates today as Career Partners International, Professional Edge.

In addition, Patricia has served as a Loaned Executive for a non-profit, taught school at the post-high level, and been an active volunteer for MAP for non-profits. Her undergraduate education is in Business Administration and she has graduate coursework in psychology and counseling.