Patty Binns Farinola is a professionally trained speaker, instructor and coach who specializes in empowering men and women to create happy, fulfilling and successful lives through powerfully connected relationships. Patty pulls from her own personal experience and her many levels of training to provide coaching and classes that have clients look deeply into their patterns of connection and help open them up to the true possibilities of success.

Patty has been coaching since 1998 in the areas of leadership, communication, team-building, career development, achieving life goals and creating profoundly fulfilling relationships. Patty is also an experienced speaker and seminar leader; she holds workshops in addition to individual sessions. She received her training at CoachU and obtained her professional coach certification through the International Coach Federation. Other education includes leadership and/or coach training through Landmark Education Corporation, Turknett Leadership Group, and the Center for Inner Knowing.

Patty's professional history includes over twenty-five years of diverse experience with industry leading Fortune 100 corporations and privately held firms. She has worked for such companies as Coca-Cola, Bank South (now Bank of America), S1 Corporation and Georgia Natural Gas. Patty has called on and managed such clients as McDonalds, Hardees, Citibank and Zurich Financial Services.

The last position she held was Managing Director of Marketing for Georgia Natural Gas. As a senior executive in marketing, she ran advertising, primary research, direct response marketing and customer analytics. Her advertising campaigns won awards and industry accolades.

In earlier years, her award-winning accomplishments in product marketing and customer database management led her to be known as an innovative leader. Other experience includes product, client, and partner management, software systems evaluation and application design, database marketing and business strategy. She holds a degree in Economics from Emory University.