Patrick Connally, Ph.D. is an effective, adaptable, and growth-focused managing director with 22 years of experience providing tailored service delivery and enterprise transformation solutions to cross-functional organizations across multiple industries. He’s a natural communicator who specializes in project and program delivery solutions that maximize global client value. Patrick is a collaborative leader and keen listener with an eye for detail and bias for action. He thrives when tackling a challenge and believes in leveraging stakeholder need analysis, metrics, and entrepreneurship to drive change. Patrick enjoys tackling challenging problems and managing risk by analyzing and understanding stakeholder needs, applying quantitative metrics, and drawing on his sense of entrepreneurship to produce creative custom solutions. He has a keen ability to develop and execute transformative business programs that are rooted in business challenges, rather than “for technology sake.” Patrick is both PMP and PMI-ACP certified, enhancing his knowledge of how to successfully structure and run projects and programs, and how to effectuate change, at scale, within organizations. Patrick most recently served a National Industry Director for Microsoft’s largest, the United States, subsidiary. He was hired to strategically drive an industry-focused go to market strategy for their $2B Professional Services industry product across a 600-person field sales team and a 2,000+ customer base. He drove industry revenue by 27.5 percent. His professional experience includes delivering client strategy and technology engagements for global organizations such as Deloitte Consulting LLP, Accenture, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. His professional experience is complemented by a bachelor's degree from the University of Denver, a Master of Science from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, an MBA from Walden University, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Cabrini University.