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Patti Choby has spent the last three decades engaged in civic and entrepreneurial endeavors and working alongside civic leaders and business owners helping them manage change and grow their organizations. Early in her career, while working with a wide array of professionals from various disciplines, she noticed that there was a need to advise owners and leaders on how to bring to bear the necessary resources and processes at the right time in order to build sustainable and performance-based business models and healthy cultures.
In 1997, after serving in several leadership positions in the fields of community and economic development, communications and marketing, research, and planning/organizational design, she founded the Cobalt Group. As an advisory and management practice, Cobalt Group has become widely known for its leadership-driven, results-oriented approach to advising and implementing strategy in operations, technology solutions, entrepreneurial services, and civic engagement and transformation initiatives.
Cobalt Group utilizes an iterative strengths-based approach with clients to assist them with issue/opportunity identification, process design and implementation of strategic objectives.
Regardless of the size of an organization, Cobalt Group helps leaders understand how to leverage and build economic and human capital through the social and cultural capital intrinsic to every organization and community.
In 2011, Ms. Choby led the launch of Inner Circle Cleveland, a peer advisory service for business owners in Greater Cleveland. Inner Circle is focused on helping business owners grow and balance their contributions to work and life.
In addition, while serving as a Principal at Cobalt Group over the last two decades, Ms. Choby has contributed to the development of future professionals teaching graduate-level courses in advanced community/economic development, change processes, marketing, and business communications. She has served as an adjunct faculty member at Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Urban Design, Case Western Reserve University, and Notre Dame College. She also served as a Visiting Instructor at Case Western Reserve University where she received the “Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award” in May, 2006.
Ms. Choby received her Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Social Science from Notre Dame College of Ohio and a Master's Degree from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management. She is currently co-authoring a book on the practice of actionable leadership.
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