Patrick Howell

Background

About Patrick Howell

Innovative, analytic, and results-oriented executive leader with an unwavering commitment to improving processes, solving problems, and achieving success; 30 years of experience leading high-performing cross-functional teams to ensure organizations achieved US foreign and security policy objectives. I assist hierarchical, matrix, and flat organizations develop creative policies, strategies, and plans to achieve their vision and goals while managing their risk. I build consensus among internal and external stakeholders on these strategic initiatives by combining a shared understanding of the organization's issues, challenges, and opportunities with detailed analysis that leverages a wide range of diverse perspectives. My expertise is based on a breadth and depth of experiences- • Leadership- Twenty-two years of providing purpose, direction, motivation, and vision to a variety of operational, operational support, and academic organizations. • Management - nine years supervising various programs providing [human relations, logistics, equipment maintenance, facility construction & maintenance] support to the parent organization. • Planning- six years of providing strategic and operational planning in support of senior organizational leadership in the Army, ISAF, and JSOC. • Academic - six years as a Professor/Instructor with over formal “podium hours”; over twenty years of informally conducting leader development. • Education- graduate research on national security issues and the factors affecting organizational effectiveness.