The Mentoré Team

 
 

Alan Patterson, Ed.D.

Esther Ewing, M. Ed.

 

 

 

 


Dr. Alan M. Patterson, President
 
Dr. Alan Patterson is one of America’s best thinkers, teachers and coaches.  Having guided more than a dozen Fortune 500 companies in re-thinking how best to elevate their talent, he is an expert at driving effective organizational change.
 
Alan Patterson has 24 years of international consulting experience in change management, leadership development, and executive coaching.  He recently formed Mentoré, a consulting organization that focuses on aligning strategy, organization structure, job responsibilities, and skill sets to major shifts in the business.
  
His expertise has been tapped by many global and national organizations, included Anheuser-Busch, CVS, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett-Packard, Major League Baseball, Merck, Sea World, United States Navy, and Williams Sonoma.
 
A published author, Alan has been a featured speaker and workshop leader for several national associations, including serving as a national expert resource for the American Institute for CPAs (AICPA) and many state CPA associations.

 

Esther Ewing, Associate

As a valued Mentoré Associate, Esther develops collaborative strategies for organizations and individuals that seek to achieve specific goals and capabilities. Through nearly two decades of experience and passion, Esther has worked with the broadest spectrum of clients across the globe. Her assignments include work in the United States, Canada, the UK, Hong Kong, South Africa and Norway.

Her range of experience in consulting has spanned a broad variety of sectors including banking, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, financial services, and information technology.

Esther’s work leverages her early corporate experiences in banking and financial services with roles that included promoting learning programs for the Canadian Bankers Association, managing training and learning functions for a national accounting firm, and managing professional development curriculum and learning delivery for a provincial accounting institute.

Specifically, Esther works to create an environment in which people are enabled to make decisions, take risks and learn and grow in ways that increase their effectiveness. She is proven in assisting leaders across a range of organizations to become successful in the current business climate and prepare them for a future business climate that is more and more demanding.

Moreover, Esther is an experienced coach and has a demonstrated a high success rate with committed clients and organizations.

She has earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto, as well as a Masters of Adult Education from the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (M. Ed. 1998). In the program, Developing Human Resources, she did her thesis on the Changing Role of the Finance Professional in Organizations.