Patricia George is a leadership consultant, educator, and facilitator who helps leaders and organizations strengthen alignment, communication, and leader development. With more than 28 years of Army leadership experience, including deployments to Baghdad, Iraq, and Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, she is known for helping leaders turn values and leadership principles into practical action and brings deep expertise in organizational leadership, talent strategy, and executive education.
Her career included leadership roles of increasing complexity, including battalion command of a 225-person organization spanning six units across the Midwest. She also served in executive leadership roles, including Chief of the Department of the Army Secretariat, where she led the execution of all Army selection boards, and as a director-level HR executive at the Pentagon, where she oversaw the Military Personnel Division and advised the Secretary of Defense and senior government leaders on human capital policy, workforce planning, and joint personnel management. She led initiatives that strengthened talent systems across the Department of Defense.
Patricia’s academic and leadership experience included serving as an instructor and Executive Officer in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Military Academy at West Point, as well as Academic Advisor for the West Point Negotiation Project. She later served as Assistant Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Outreach and Research at the National War College, where she led graduate-level seminars on national security strategy and negotiations for senior U.S. and international military officers and interagency civilians.
After retiring from military service, Patricia served as a strategy consultant on a multi-year effort to redesign the U.S. Army’s Selection Board System. She contributed to a major modernization initiative that remains in use today and has delivered significant monetary savings to the Army. She brings that same ability to connect strategy with execution to her facilitation and leadership development work. Recent participants have praised her for translating complex leadership concepts into practical tools that strengthen self-awareness, alignment, and authentic communication.