About Pat
Pat is the ultimate trailblazer in embedding purpose and sustainability in organisational decision-making.
From grassroots non-profit work to becoming one of Asia’s first Chief Sustainability Officers, transforming family businesses and launching Asia’s first purpose & sustainability consultancy, she has consistently articulated and activated purpose, to guide leaders to evolve business as a force for good.
Pat is a natural connector, leveraging her global network and facilitates much needed conversations around purpose-driven transformation. Her work has long focused on responsible business and challenging conventional leadership while staying rooted in local context and culture.
Pat is a self-starter. After having been Ayala Land's first CSR Manager, she went on to become the first Global CSR and Sustainability Director for Shangri-La, then Asia’s biggest home-grown chain of hotels and resorts.
Across 70 properties in at least 20 countries globally, she worked with the hotels' assets, projects and operations teams introducing green building design standards and sustainable food sourcing plans, as well as impact measurement across community empowerment programmes.
A strong believer of inclusive workplaces, Pat introduced a policy where hotels filled 2% of their workforce with people with different abilities.
Pat worked alongside industry leaders and environmental conservation groups to ban shark’s fin soup from service.
With partners across airlines & cargo, tourism boards and environmental organisations, major hotel chains and events companies altogether made it happen: banning shark's fin from service helped shark’s fin imports drop by 50% between 2007-2017.
In 2015, Pat launched The Purpose Business (TPB) in Hong Kong, Asia’s first network model consultancy to embed purpose and sustainability in strategy and across business models.
TPB rivalled the big four accounting and management consulting firms and became a compelling partner of choice for business leaders across family conglomerates, start-ups and small-medium enterprises that operated from Asia and beyond.
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Pat has taken on faculty and tutor roles with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership as Senior Associate. She teaches on CISL’s flagship offering, the Cambridge Business & Sustainability Programme (CBSP), which has been running for over 35 years with almost 4,000 senior executives as alumni globally. She regularly contributes to Executive Education programmes and online offerings including the Governance for Sustainable Leadership , Business and Sustainability Management and High Impact Leadership courses.
Pat continues to serve as advisor to several non-profits and industry groups. As Chair of the Independent Advisory Group of Travalyst, she works with esteemed experts in responsible tourism. She also serves as an advisor at Sowen who leverage deep data capabilities and cross-sectoral expertise to help partners design, implement, and measure sustainable, scalable impact.
Pat is a Gender Ambassador for the Asia Venture Philanthropy Network, working with business leaders to embed the inclusion lens in strategy development.
In all these roles, Pat delivers the quiet, supportive work that enable organisational leaders to embed purpose in their everyday decision-making.
