Patty is founder of Treehouse Counsel, an Atlanta-based advisory, delivering value at the intersection of business strategy and communications.
With nearly four decades of diverse, transferable consulting experience, the common theme of her work is motivating stakeholders.
Whether internally or externally facing, her work resolves say/do dissonance causing friction, reducing trust, and demotivating stakeholders. With genuine language and aligned behaviors, she helps turn people into believers and active advocates.
As one of a global cohort of Certified Conscious Capitalism Consultants, Patty helps companies operate — and build reputations — as stakeholder-oriented, purpose-led leaders that are good for the world. This international approach is proven to drive profitability and resilience.
Patty’s five-agency career includes 14 years in leadership with Edelman. There she founded and led the Atlanta corporate practice, stewarded best practices across the Americas, and worked on the annual Edelman Trust Barometer research, guiding clients on how to build trust.
Patty is a board member for the Inspire Brands Foundation, Trees Atlanta, the College of Charleston College of Communications, and Conscious Capitalism. She’s a member of 1% for the Planet.
Cornelia has been a brand strategist, communicator, and senior agency executive for over 30 years, working across Europe, Asia, and the US. Among the companies she worked for are Mars, Unilever, Shell, Microsoft, P&G, Beiersdorf, Inbev, Wrigley, Hilton, Bosch, Adidas, Gore, Siemens Home Appliances, TÜV SÜD, Grohe/Lixil and Tata.
She started her career in-house in corporate affairs and moved to the agency side after eight years. In her almost 20 years at Edelman, she has led operations as well as award-winning communications and marketing work for multi-national accounts headquartered across the globe. Cornelia set up global teams and structures and led numerous agency pitches by bringing together specialist talents to produce more strategic and creative outputs in a faster time. As the head of global account management, she worked with forty key-account leaders and senior clients to shape the best possible client-agency-relationship.
As the founder and co-owner of i-sekai, headquartered in Germany, she and her business partner Moritz Kaffsack advise regional and global clients in making communications more effective.
Cornelia is a speaker about brand, purpose, and collaboration topics and a university lecturer on international communication management. Cornelia has studied marketing and business administration in Germany and France, lived in Germany, France and India, and worked in most markets in Europe and Asia. She believes that strategic communication is a key value-driver for leaders, companies, and brands today.