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Patti Choby has spent the last two decades working with business owners, civic leaders and professionals from a wide variety of disciplines and organizations. During this time she has developed the Cobalt Group practice model that is widely known for its innovative, leadership-driven, results-oriented approach to helping leaders build sustainable business models and healthy cultures. 

She has managed a variety of long-term public-private partnership initiatives that have involved a lengthy list of clients from private business, government, academia, philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.

She has served as a Visiting Instructor at Case Western Reserve University where she received the “Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award” in May, 2006. Ms. Choby also serves as an Assistant (Part-time) Professor at Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Urban Design, and has served as an adjunct faculty at Notre Dame College. Before starting Cobalt Group, Inc., she served as Program Director and Bicentennial Village Project Coordinator at Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation and Director of Communications and Marketing at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.

She 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.