About

Patricia Kantor, Founder & Principal

Patricia has 25 years of experience teaching presentation skills to clients and organizations across a wide range of fields and industries. She draws on a background in occupational therapy, which has attuned her to the needs of the clients. She has honed her workshops through years of trainings. Using a series of modules that assess, train, develop, and review, she structures her sessions to enhance personal strengths, build techniques and confidence, and ultimately help clients deliver truly memorable and impactful.

Her long and distinguished client list contains some of the best known Fortune 1000 and Business Week Global 1000 corporations. This includes financial companies like UBS and PIMCO, leading private equity firms like CenterBridge and Vestar, pharmaceutical companies like Celgene and Novo Nordisk, insurance companies like Chubb and Frankel, and household names like Heineken and Sotheby’s. She has coached speakers from senior management for annual meetings, major pitches, and fundraising. In addition, Patricia has worked as a consultant at the United Nations for the past 20 years in a variety of capacities. She also works with non-profits like the World Bank and IIE.

Patricia has held workshops all around the world, often introducing a cross-cultural component to global trainings. She works consistently with her long-time international client, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), sharpening their messages and communications to strengthen their work for economic development and fight against poverty. She has conducted training programs at conferences and regional and global headquarters, in Thailand, Indonesia, Denmark, Johannesburg and New York. She has also coached displaced Iraqi scholars who fled war for Amman, Jordan, under the auspices of Scholar Rescue Fund of the Institute of International Education. She also partnered with the consulting firm CenterNorth to develop client engagement and presentation training programs for information technology and outsourcing companies in India. She returns regularly to her native South Africa to work with one of the country’s largest retail chains.