June 2009 (news)

Budapest, Hungary - Patrick was invited to conduct multiple seminars at the European Leadership Conference in Budapest June 8 - 14. First, Patrick led a multi-day seminar teaching high level speakers/trainers how to design interactive seminars and courses that utilize adult learning techniques and keep the audience involved. Then, he taught "Do You Want to Get Lucky?" to over 100 participants who learned how to take their ideas and create opportunities to make things happen. Finally, Patrick conducted a "Head Trainer" course teaching advanced speakers and trainers how to conduct multi-day courses with co-trainers while providing effective feedback and keeping continuity in the course. The experience was fantastic and the city was beautiful.

Marathon, Florida - Patrick conducted a focused workshop in the Keys on how to develop better presentation skills. The workshop was organized by the Marathon Jr. Chamber of Commerce and was attended by attorneys, pastors, sales people and other young professionals looking to improve their speaking skills.

May 2009 (news)

San Juan, Puerto Rico - Patrick was a key presenter at the Americas Leadership Conference in San Juan. During the conference, he taught leaders from around the Americas how to jumpstart their organizations utilizing a different approach to leadership that gets your target audience to chase you rather than vice-versa. While in Puerto Rico, Patrick also conducted a seminar for aspiring high level speakers and trainers discussing advanced presentation techniques, which was followed by a trainer's open forum to discuss new issues in the speaking world.

April 2009 (news)

Breaking News: Patrick has been selected as a keynote speaker at the 2009 national conference for the National Association of Court Management (NACM)in Boston, MA. Patrick will discuss Leadership as Positive Seduction for the trial court administrators, court staff and managers from around the country. For more information or to visit the conference site, click here: http://www.securewebcc.com/sites/S120/index.php?p=1537

In addition, Patrick has become affiliated with the Council for International Visitors (CIV) in Miami. As the official South Florida host for the U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program, the CIV welcomes hundreds of distinguished foreign visitors every year. We arrange their professional itineraries where they'll meet with their U.S. counterparts and share best practices, and CIV members are given the opportunity to invite a foreign visitor to dine in their home or a local restaurant thus acting as citizen diplomats. For more information, visit www.miamiciv.org.

March 2009 (news)

Miami, Florida – Patrick conducted a Dynamic Presentations seminar at Morrison Brown Argiz and Farra, LLP, an accounting firm in Miami’s financial district. This is the second year in a row that Patrick has given the seminar at this office.

Crystal River, Florida - Patrick was a featured trainer at the USJC National Convention with attendees from all over the United States. The seminar taught the nuts and bolts of non-profit management from a values-based perspective.

February 2009 (news)

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - Patrick Knight was a featured speaker during an International Networking Week event for Broward BNI. The event, held at the Ft. Lauderdale Signature Grand Hotel, was the largest BNI event in the world with nearly 700 business professionals in attendance. Other featured speakers included the CEO of the Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce and the Vice-President of Junior Achievement. Patrick presented various techniques and strategies for networking and creating business referrals on a global scale.

January 2009 (news)

Breaking News: Patrick Knight is appointed JCI Training Certification Commissioner for the Americas. JCI is a world-wide federation of young leaders and entrepreneurs dedicated to creating positive change and providing development opportunity to young professionals. The JCI Training Certification Commission is made up of five people from around the world who are responsible for monitoring and certifying new local, national and international trainers. Patrick is responsible for all trainers in North and South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The other members of the Commission come from Portugal, Macao, Togo and the Netherlands. For more information, click here: http://www.jci.cc/about/en/jcidirectory/appointees.

Archives 2008 (news blurbs)

December 2008
Breaking News: Patrick Knight, author of the children’s book called The Little Knight’s Painting Place, just held the kick-off book signing event at the Bookstore in the Grove. The book reading was attended by more than 60 people and nearly 80 books were sold at this first event held in Coconut Grove (Miami, Florida). The book is also available on-line at: http://www.amazon.com/.

November 2008
Miami, Florida – Patrick conducts the Jumpstart Your Organization in Miami.

October 2008
Paramaribo, Suriname – Patrick was invited to a leadership conference in Suriname for young leaders in both government and private industries of Suriname. Patrick stayed for one week and offered five seminars: Positive Seduction, Design the Future, Blending the Intergenerational Workplace, Succession Planning and Critical Analysis in Project Planning.

August 2008
Mainz, Germany - Patrick conducts two day leadership course consisting of values-based management and inspirational leadership strategies. Attendees came from many different types of companies around Germany to participate in this interactive seminar.

July 2008
New York City, New York – Patrick was invited for the sixth year in row to be a featured presenter at the Metropolitan Networking Conference for young leaders in New York City. Patrick conducted a two day leadership course and a three hour seminar about the use of technology in management and communication

June 2008
Miami, Florida – Patrick Knight selected to be featured speaker at Miami Leadership Summit held at the Mayfair Hotel in Coconut Grove. Young leaders and entrepreneurs from around Florida attended the event.

May 2008
Panama City, Panama – Patrick is invited to Panama for a third time as a featured speaker and presenter. At the Leadership Conference of the Americas held in Panama City, Patrick presents three seminars: Dynamic Presentations, Train-the-Trainer and Do You Want to Get Lucky? Attendees of the conference came from over 20 countries around the Americas and the Caribbean.

April 2008
Tegucigalpa, Honduras – Patrick presented a one day communications course in Spanish on how to give dynamic presentations. After the seminar, Patrick was interviewed by the television station Channel 5 in Honduras regarding a few tips for better presentations.

March 2008
Georgetown, Guyana – Patrick travels to Georgetown to present a full day seminar on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for various government officials and employees in Guyana, including the Minister of Tourism for Guyana. Prior to the seminar, Patrick was interviewed on the local news radio station for Guyana and after the seminar, Patrick gave a television interview regarding CSR.

St. Vincent & the Grenadine Islands – Patrick conducts a full day seminar for the Chamber of Commerce & Industry in St. Vincent to discuss Corporate Social Responsibility in the Caribbean and its relation to CARICOM. After the seminar, Patrick was interviewed by a local news station to discuss the importance of CSR for Caribbean industries.

February 2008
Miami, Florida - Patrick is selected to run a pilot test of the new JCI Admin course, which is a management course for young leaders on a non-profit board of directors.

January 2008
Miami, Florida – Patrick gives a Dynamic Presentations seminar at Morrison Brown Argiz and Farra, LLP, an accounting firm in Miami’s financial district.