Patricia Reed

Patricia S. Reed, Founding Partner

Choose 2 Lead Women's Foundation

Patricia S. Reed has over 23 years of policy, regulatory, and public

communications experience spanning the private, nonprofit and

public sectors.  She has strong analytical, organizational, and

program management skills, and has facilitated cooperative

ventures between federal, state, and local governments,

Congress, industry, and interest groups.  Over the past 15 years,

Patricia has balanced her career and family obligations by

negotiating management-level part-time and telecommuting

positions (amidst several cross-country family relocations).

In 2004, she co-founded the Choose 2 Lead Women's Foundation.  

Over the past two years, she has conducted several studies on

workforce dynamics and workplace innovations for the U.S.

Department of Labor. Actions included convening focus groups

as well as multi-disciplinary stakeholder meetings.  She also

has been a speaker at several national conferences.

Patricia is the former Director of Programs at the Independent

Women's Forum, where she developed strategies, planned events

and communicated with the media and the public.  Prior to that,

she spent 15 years as a program manager in the management

consulting industry at Booz Allen Hamilton and Tetra Tech. In this

capacity, she managed public/private partnerships, developed

surveys, facilitated meetings and events, and produced a wide

range of reports, training and outreach materials.  

Patricia holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Syracuse

University and a bachelor of arts in psychology and sociology from the

State University of New York at Albany.  She was a 1983 U.S. Presidential

Management Intern at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and later became

a mentor to Presidential Management Intern program students and to

the Federal Women's Executive Leadership Program.