Patrick Parks
Education
- Harvard University, EdM, Human Development & Psychology
- University of Notre Dame, BA, Anthropology and Public Policy
Professionally, Patrick has worked and supported projects in Europe, North America, South America, Central America, Asia, India, and the Caribbean. Through his leadership at YSC, he grew the relationships and strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean markets with intensive attention to ethnographic study and customer relationship management.Patrick has over 10 years of coaching experience. He has dedicated a large portion of his career to profiling, assessment, leadership development and executive coaching. Among the companies with whom he has worked are Diageo, Cadbury (Kraft), Cisco, British Petroleum, Royal Bank of Scotland, First Caribbean International Bank, Lloyds, Astra Zeneca, Treasury Holdings, Tesco, BAA, Dress for Success, and Oliver Mercer Wyman. He has worked for YSC, Ltd., IBM Business Consulting Services in their Strategy & Change practice area, and began his career as a leadership analyst and profiler for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Even prior to the CIA, Patrick was a legislative intern for former Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. in Washington, DC and was an intern for Ford’s first campaign for election in 1997 in his junior year of high school.
Most recently, he has partnered with Dallas Austin (Rowdy Entertainment) and Ironsphinx Entertainment to develop non-scripted and scripted tv shows. James Few and Eboni Knight of Ironsphix have worked with Patrick for over a year now and they have developed a partnership with a global beer company and are in the nascent stages of launching a franchise reality tv show to start in Jamaica and the Caribbean.
In addition to Patrick partnering with professional athletes to optimize corporate executives’ leadership, management, and functional performance, he also supports the athletes themselves in articulating a brand strategy, maximizing the athlete’s brand equity with promotional and other commercial opportunities, and providing post professional sports career coaching as well. Having graduated from the Notre Dame and being close to several pro athletes himself and coming from a family of athletes that have played overseas, in the Olympics, WNBA, and the NBA; his connection with athletes comes naturally and organically.
In his free time, he writes and produces music, gives back to nonprofits like the AnBryce Foundation, and sits on several committees for the University of Notre Dame’s Office of Development.