Alan Patching
Alan Patching is internationally respected as one of Australia's outstanding business presenters and has been described as 'the Australian project and business leadership guru'.
This international recognition endorses his knowledge and credibility in his areas of expertise.
This means you can relax assured of his ability when he presents for your audience.
Alan credits his business success to his lifelong interest in, and study of, human behaviour – an area in which he holds several qualifications.
Alan Patching loves to challenge and inspire corporate and government leaders and emerging leaders to foster the innovation necessary to ensure continuing relevance and sustainability of their business...to make their business Futureproof.
His extensive business and academic lecturing experiences combine to make his corporate presentations the ideal blend of cutting edge theory and down to earth, use-immediately practical wisdom.
This combination ensures your audience leaves conferences or training well-equipped for rapid application of new and relevant information in a manner which best equips your organisation to move to the next level.
Alan is a masterful platform presenter. His presentations are a high-energy mix of humour, take home content, audience involvement and relevant anecdotes.
Senior Hospitality Industry Executive, UK.
Alan Patching founded, grew and sold a number of consultancy businesses before holding senior executive positions in major corporations across a range of industries.
He is now Managing Director of Alan Patching and Associates Pty. Ltd. and an adjunct professor at Bond University on the Gold Coast.
Perhaps his best known business roles were as Chief Executive Officer of the entity which owned Sydney's Olympic Stadium and as the stadium project director.
He was also project director on the $280m redevelopment of Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane for the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
Alan Patching has managed or directed over $25 billion (2012 equivalent value) of major projects throughout Australia, and in the early nineties negotiated the country's largest ever property deal valued at $1.8 billion, and its largest commercial lease.
His business negotiations range from the sale and purchase of jet aircraft to the bulk buying of designer lingerie from leading international suppliers.
He negotiated the deal to bring Tiffany of New York to Australia.
This impressive track record in business and leadership, combined with an extensive understanding of the psychology of human behaviour, constitutes a rare business presenter.
A presenter perfectly positioned to ensure your organisation can enhance not only technical aspects of leadership, but also that most important aspect of business communications and relationship building -emotional intelligence.
Patching is the author of a number of books, e-books and audio albums and has shared the international speaking platform with such luminaries as Dr. Tom Peters, Dr. Denis Waitley, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Zig Ziglar and Robert Kiyosaki.
He is also the author-presenter of a number of university accredited training programmes, and of several hypnotherapy and psychotherapy based health and wellbeing related products.
His major interest is educating leaders to understand the importance of stirring purpose-based passion within organisations to provide a greater sense or satisfaction for their people and increase the potential for higher profit for shareholders, and to assist people develop a focus on getting things done while effectively managing unnecessary productivity-killing stress.
Alan is quite a rare mix – he holds formal qualifications in Quantity Surveying and Project Management, and also is a registered Psychotherapist and registered and Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist.
He is a former army reserve officer, a jet endorsed private pilot, a kayaking ultra-marathoner, and husband to Annie and father to Mark, Anthony, Courtney and Georgia.
He lives on The Gold Coast in Australia.
Alan Patching is internationally respected as one of Australia's outstanding business presenters and has been described as 'the Australian project and business leadership guru'.
This international recognition endorses his knowledge and credibility in his areas of expertise.
This means you can relax assured of his ability when he presents for your audience.
Alan credits his business success to his lifelong interest in, and study of, human behaviour – an area in which he holds several qualifications.
Alan Patching loves to challenge and inspire corporate and government leaders and emerging leaders to foster the innovation necessary to ensure continuing relevance and sustainability of their business...to make their business Futureproof.
His extensive business and academic lecturing experiences combine to make his corporate presentations the ideal blend of cutting edge theory and down to earth, use-immediately practical wisdom.
This combination ensures your audience leaves conferences or training well-equipped for rapid application of new and relevant information in a manner which best equips your organisation to move to the next level.
Alan is a masterful platform presenter. His presentations are a high-energy mix of humour, take home content, audience involvement and relevant anecdotes.
Senior Hospitality Industry Executive, UK.
Alan Patching founded, grew and sold a number of consultancy businesses before holding senior executive positions in major corporations across a range of industries.
He is now Managing Director of Alan Patching and Associates Pty. Ltd. and an adjunct professor at Bond University on the Gold Coast.
Perhaps his best known business roles were as Chief Executive Officer of the entity which owned Sydney's Olympic Stadium and as the stadium project director.
He was also project director on the $280m redevelopment of Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane for the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
Alan Patching has managed or directed over $25 billion (2012 equivalent value) of major projects throughout Australia, and in the early nineties negotiated the country's largest ever property deal valued at $1.8 billion, and its largest commercial lease.
His business negotiations range from the sale and purchase of jet aircraft to the bulk buying of designer lingerie from leading international suppliers.
He negotiated the deal to bring Tiffany of New York to Australia.
This impressive track record in business and leadership, combined with an extensive understanding of the psychology of human behaviour, constitutes a rare business presenter.
A presenter perfectly positioned to ensure your organisation can enhance not only technical aspects of leadership, but also that most important aspect of business communications and relationship building -emotional intelligence.
Patching is the author of a number of books, e-books and audio albums and has shared the international speaking platform with such luminaries as Dr. Tom Peters, Dr. Denis Waitley, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Zig Ziglar and Robert Kiyosaki.
He is also the author-presenter of a number of university accredited training programmes, and of several hypnotherapy and psychotherapy based health and wellbeing related products.
His major interest is educating leaders to understand the importance of stirring purpose-based passion within organisations to provide a greater sense or satisfaction for their people and increase the potential for higher profit for shareholders, and to assist people develop a focus on getting things done while effectively managing unnecessary productivity-killing stress.
Alan is quite a rare mix – he holds formal qualifications in Quantity Surveying and Project Management, and also is a registered Psychotherapist and registered and Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist.
He is a former army reserve officer, a jet endorsed private pilot, a kayaking ultra-marathoner, and husband to Annie and father to Mark, Anthony, Courtney and Georgia.
He lives on The Gold Coast in Australia.
The Futureproof Corporation
Alan Patching is well known for addressing common issues including innovation, culture and attitude, values and vision, the role of leaders, and dealing with customers and co-workers in a refreshing and vital manner, rich with supporting anecdotes, humour and valuable take-home-and-use-tomorrow...
Understanding the 'h-Cloud' – leadership psychology for performance enhancement
This is a much in-demand presentation in which Alan draws from his dual careers in the top echelons of business and as a clinical psychotherapist (and hypnotherapist) to provide valuable insights into the way the human mind develops attitudes and behavior, and how performance reducing stress is produced.
This presentation provides interesting insights and anecdotes, as well as useful tools and Alan's trademark humour - and all delegates of all events are provided with...
Change your Corporate Mind and Change your Corporate Life
This presentation addresses the manner in which strong individual mindset can very quickly lead to strong corporate culture - and how this fact can be harnessed to become a significant catalyst for culture change for the better in organisations.
More importantly, it explains several psychologically sound approaches leaders can use to strongly influence their human capital to different and more effective behavior practices in the workplace.
These practices cover the gamut...The EQ Factor! – What happens after IQ gets you the job?
The fact is most speakers on Emotional intelligence are either psychologists with little business experience or business trainers with negligible formal study and experience in psychology.
With substantial high-level business and major projects experience Alan Patching, a registered psychotherapist and a recognised expert in Neuro Linguistic Programming, is the exception and he shows it in this practical and insightful presentation. Who else do you know who has been the...The Soul Thing That Matters in Business
While profit might be the goal of a business, people will always be the soul of the business.
This presentation reveals how alignment of business values with those of the people who make up the business is the key to any business tapping into its true source of creativity and corporate spirituality - it's human capital.
The presentation also addresses how leaders can benefit from creating a workplace environment wherein people feel connected and are free to become the...
21st Century Leadership and Success Essentials
Based on an audio album co-authored with Dr. Denis Waitley of the USA, this passionate and powerful presentation is a wake-up call designed to inspire people to choose to act as entrepreneurs or franchisees within their own organisation.
The presentation looks at the warp-speed change of the global business environment and challenges audiences to accept that personal leadership is the only antidote.
Alan Patching draws from his own substantial leadership experience to affirm...
Powerful Commercial Negotiation
The ultimate negotiation keynote from a proven master. In this presentation Alan Patching draws upon his personal experience in negotiating billions of dollars of deals in fields as diverse as property, construction, fashion, aviation and hi-tech purchasing and acquisition.
Heavily focused on the human behavioural aspects of negotiation rather than just the much repeated strategies and tactics, this presentation will have your delegates realising the crucial importance of...
