| Executive Vice President
American Management Association
Patricia Leonard brings extensive business, publishing
and editorial experience in the educational and learning
market place. With over 20 years in these industries, Pat
has held senior management positions in sales, editorial,
alliances, mergers-and-acquisitions, media-based learning
and new business development at McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall,
Thomson Corporation, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and
Pearson Education.
In October 2002, Pat was appointed EVP of the newly formed
U.S. Management Education group of American Management Association
(AMA). Comprised of seminar (USME) (public and custom-delivered
onsite) as well as AMA’s membership operation, USME
represents the largest group within the AMA International
family.
Prior to joining AMA, Pat was President of McGraw-Hill
Lifetime Learning, an international division of McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc,. that developed and distributed business
skill eLearning products and services to the corporate training
market. As Senior Vice President of Pearson Education, Pat
managed the higher education publishing industry’s
first distance-learning initiative. She established many
of the first content and technology alliances, thus creating
new business models and media development and content deployment
strategies used by this industry today. Pat also executed
over 80 acquisitions and divestitures in the publishing
industry in M&A leadership roles within Simon &
Schuster, Macmillan, Thomson and Prentice Hall.
A graduate of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, Pat has
received YWCA’s “Tribute to Women in Industry”
Award, serves on various charitable and commercial boards
and was voted one of the ‘top 10 people to watch’
in the corporate training industry by SIMBA publications.
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