L. Bonita Patterson

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Founder and CEO of Polaris Consulting Group.biz, L. Bonita Patterson, specializes in Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Culture Change, and Employee Engagement. She partners with a broad array of corporate, government, and non-profit clients to improve bottom-line results by aligning culture and behaviors with strategic business intent. Her success as a coach, consultant, and advisor lies in her understanding of human behavior, organizational complexities, and sustainable change.  

She is the author of Communication Under Fire: How To Talk When Things Heat Up; and co-author of the first edition of Emotional Intelligence in Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders and Managers. 

She has facilitated strategic organizational change, provided executive coaching and workshops in numerous organizations including U.S. Office of Personnel Management, University of Denver, City and County of Denver, Cummins Rocky Mountain, Colgate University, Colorado Department of Transportation, Centurylink, Coors Brewing Company, eBay, Eberl Claims Service, Fox Rothschild, Guaranty Bank & Trust, Hewlett Packard, Hospital Corporation of America, Johns Manville, TIAA, National Conference of State Legislatures, 9News, The Medical Center of Aurora, and Charles Schwab.

Her Executive Coaching and Culture Change transformations include: 

• Executive Coaching – “In six months of work with Bonita, she helped accelerate my personal and professional growth by at least five years.”
• Establishing a strategic planning process and launching behavior change initiatives that contributed to in the client achieving their ideal merger and acquisition scenario.
• Revitalizing a diminishing organization; facilitating a post-merger transition to a new operating model
• Developing an executive leadership program leveraging world-class executives, educators, and researchers to enhance the leadership capabilities of senior management in global organizations.

Bonita’s ability to transform leaders and organizations to optimize engagement and heighten results was honed during her years in corporate leadership and senior management with IBM, a leadership development company, and U.S. Department of Energy nuclear weapons plant closure project at Rocky Flats. 

She is a Harvard / Wharton Executive Management Program graduate, and holds an MS in Organizational Leadership & Management, and a BA in Communications. Bonita is a Certified Coach & Master of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Emotional Intelligence, and Conversational Intelligence. 

In addition to being a Leadership Assessor in Executive Assessment Centers, she was a longtime facilitator and coach with the international award-winning Leadership Ascent, she has been a facilitator in the Colorado State University College of Business Certificate Program, and past president of the Board of Directors of Mile High Society for Human Resource Management.