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Patrick Mc Namara

Catalyst for Positive Systems Transformation

Mission

I am passionate about empowering courageous leaders, organizations, and systems committed to making our world a better place.

 

I accompany leaders as they navigate complexity, change, and uncertainty by deepening their capacity to lead with compassion, authenticity, and systems awareness, Strengthening their ability to co-create transformative solutions, shift systems, and take aligned, impactful action.
 

My approach blends the inner qualities of presence, authenticity, and compassion with the outer skills required to sense the future, align stakeholders, innovate solutions, shift mindsets, and transform systems for lasting change.
 

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Courageous leadership
Programme

Goal: Strengthen your capacity to lead change, to transform your system and yourself, to contribute to a bigger shift.

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Who: Directors and mid-level managers in public organisations and companies.

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What: A tailored 6-9 month transformational leadership programme in English or French, delivered virtually and in-person to 1000 participants in 26 countries over the past 10 years.

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Sustainability
Strategy

Goal: Advance your organisation's leadership in all aspects of sustainability: people, planet, purpose, profit.

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Who: Heads of companies and those responsible for driving sustainability in your organisation.

 

What: Develop a sustainability strategy to achieve goals, create value, and tackle resistance by  taking a relational and systems-awareness approach.

​systems Change & Transformation
 


Goal: Create conditions for transformation in  systems and organisations engaging social and  environmental challenges. 

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Who: Directors of UN, EU, FR, CAN agencies, delegations, ministries, and NGOs.

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What: Programme co-design with an awareness-based, whole-systems approach: collaborative, multi-stakeholder solution-finding, shift mindsets, discover new ways to take aligned action. 

Deep Coaching
 

Goal: Build resilience, self-awareness, and action-confidence. Overcome challenges. Lead  bold, transformative change. 

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Who: Heads of companies, directors of organisations, team leaders, managers, and changemakers.

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​What: A deep coaching process over 3-9 months tailored to your goals, challenges, and needs. Utilise methods that help you see and resolve your intractible challenges.

What-I-Do

Featured Service: Sustainability Strategy

Are you responsible for driving sustainability in your organisation or heading a company focused on becoming more sustainable on all levels? Would you like to elevate your sustainability performance and transform challenges into innovative, game-changing solutions?

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I offer a framework supporting you to breakthrough your toughest challenges by tapping into the human and values-based drivers of sustainability and transformation:

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  • Find leverage points that shift the system

  • Prioritise hotspots to focus your efforts

  • Shift mindsets, creating a new culture that supports sustainability

  • Engage with stakeholders to refine and evolve your strategy

  • Build depth, momentum, and cohesion for positive transformation

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​​​Let’s work together to unlock the full potential of sustainability in your organization.

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Clients and Memberships

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Capgemini, Motorola, UN Women, United Nations Development Programme, UNDP-UNHCR Joint Secretariat, innovation4Crisis, UNITAR, UN Department of Political Affairs, Findhorn International Centre for Sustainability, State of California Department of Education, UN Global Compact Businesses (Canada), International Development Research Centre (Canada), Stanford University, Inter-ministerial Delegation for Welcome and Integration of Refugees (France), Ministry of Agriculture (Inter-ministerial Delegation) (France).

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Who-I-Am

My Values

As a catalyst for positive systems change, I co-create new ways of working, living and being so a more connected, healthy, and caring world can unfold.

My Values

Integrity, congruence & clarity

in my engagement with clients and colleagues

Sustainability Experience

  • ​Sustainability Strategies: Develop Initiatives to Transform Your Business - Stanford University (online). Supporting 100 sustainability leaders from 21 countries to integrate  sustainability into their strategy, increase sustainability performance, and develop actionable initiatives to increase performance and achieve sustainability goals.
     

  • Business Strategy - European Startup. Supported a carbon footprint calculator startup develop and adapt its first mover strategy and culture through a participatory process and Stanford Strategic Leadership model.
     

  • Sustainable Development Goal Acceleration through Systems Transformation - United Nations Development Programme. Supporting 50 changemakers from 33 countries to take a systems approach to sustainability challenges, using awareness-based methods (Presencing Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to shift mindsets and systems to increase sustainability outcomes.
     

  • Generating Breakthrough Strategies - French Ministry of Agriculture. Co-designed and co-facilitated an innovation workshop for an interministerial delegation to discover breakthrough strategies to reduce pesticide use and improve health outcomes.
     

  • Green Business-Incubator - European Headquarters of US manufacturer. Led four product development teams through a process of visioning, research, and business plan development, resulting in four “green business” proposals.

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Education

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California USA.

Group Facilitation Training Program. Course facilitator: Interpersonal Dynamics (OB374), Strategic Leadership, Design Thinking, Designing Organisations for Creativity and Innovation. 

 

Presencing Institute (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts USA. 

Foundation and Masters Course, Action Lab, and Forum with Otto Scharmer, Arawana Hayashi, Peter Senge, and others.

 

Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA.

Master of Business Administration; Concentrations in policy, marketing, and international business.

 

L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Université de Strasbourg, France. 

Political Science, first year.

Publications

Compendium on Good and Innovative Practices in the Regional Response to the Syria and Iraq Crisis: Volume II; UNHCR-UNDP Joint Secretariat, Amman, Jordan; November, 2017. (Co-Author) 


Compendium on Good and Innovative Practices in the Regional Response to the Syria Crisis: Volume I; UNHCR-UNDP Joint Secretariat, Amman, Jordan; October, 2015. (Editor) 

Languages

Fluent in French, English, Spanish;

Advanced German, Intermediate Arabic.
 

I have worked in 30 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

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