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Select a name from the list below to read the full biography:
 Patti Choby has spent the last two decades working with leaders and
professionals from a wide variety of disciplines. During this time she
has developed the Cobalt Group practice model that is widely known for
its innovative, results-oriented approach to long-term, comprehensive
planning and development.
Ms. Choby has served as project leader for long-term planning
and development initiatives in the Cities of Cleveland, Willowick,
Ashtabula, Ohio and Naples, Florida.
She also has managed a variety of long-term public-private partnership
initiatives that have involved representatives from government,
universities, foundations, nonprofits and private business. While all
of these projects have been comprehensive in scope, facilitation and
stakeholder engagement services/processes are generally at the heart of
the initiative.
Ms. Choby originally founded Cobalt Group in 1997, and under
her leadership the firm has compiled a diverse portfolio of experiences
with projects and people. These experiences include coordinating a
10-year, $200 million-dollar public-private partnership in the Broadway
Corridor of the City of Cleveland; serving as a community/economic
development consultant to the Cleveland Foundation in the areas of
housing and development of economic indicators; and coordinating the
design of an innovative leadership development program for the Mandel
Foundation.
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.
Ms. Choby’s involvement in the community includes being a
member of the Board of Trustees at Jennings Center for Older Adults, a
member of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s Women’s Health Advisory
Board, and Community Advisor to the Board for Cleveland Public Art.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communications and
Social Science from Notre Dame College of Ohio and a Master's Degree in
Nonprofit Organizations from Case Western Reserve University’s
Weatherhead School of Management and Mandel School of Applied Social
Sciences. She is currently co-authoring a book on the practice of
actionable leadership.
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