Patrick Knight
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Executive Consultant
Patrick is
an adjunct faculty member teaching graduate and undergraduate HR courses
at DeVry University / Keller Graduate School in Tampa, FL. He is a guest
speaker at businesses, colleges, high schools, community groups, and
on TV and radio shows.
Pat spent a combined 11 years with the #1 and #2 worldwide career management
firms in senior operations management and senior organizational and
career consulting roles in New York State, North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Florida. His previous HR experience included 10 years of manufacturing.
Previously in his HR career, Pat served as the #2 HR manager for a nearly
4,000-employee, multi-site, multi-state manufacturing, wholesale, and
distribution company. He also served as the HR Director for a two-site
manufacturing and distribution operation with 145 non-union employees.
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As a journalist, Pat has been a contributing writer and editor for Management
Development, Business Development, Career Transition, Change Management,
and self-employment manuals, a newspaper reporter and columnist for
daily and weekly newspapers, and a free-lance writer for trade journals.
He also served for four years in the U.S. Air Force.
A master's degree graduate in Human Resources from the University of
Scranton in Pennsylvania, Pat has also earned undergraduate degrees
in English/Speech Communications from Binghamton (NY) University and
Journalism from the State University of New York at Morrisville.
Firmly believing in giving back to the community, since 1982, Pat has
volunteered extensively. Most recently Pat served on two Greater Tampa
Chamber of Commerce committees and is actively involved in the Society
for Human Resource Management. Volunteer board and committee terms include
three years on HRTampa, and six years each on the Binghamton (NY) YMCA
and United Way. Also, Pat was actively involved in Chamber of Commerce’s
and State Employment Divisions in New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina,
and South Carolina and volunteered as a consultant for small businesses
with local Chamber of Commerce’s. He also coached girls' soccer
and baseball. Pat and Angela, his wife, reside in Tampa, Florida.
Client Partnership List:
Allied Signal, Carrier, GE, Hard Rock Hotel, Honeywell, IBM, JPMorgan
Chase, Kaiser Permanente, Kodak, Marriott, Miller Brewing Company, Nationwide
Insurance, OxyChem, NYSE&G, P&G, Renaissance Steel, Sonoco Products,
TECO Energy, tesa tape inc., and Xerox.
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