Where is Patrick?
Meet The People Who Can Guide Your ORGANIZATION TO A BETTER TOMORROW
The Mejorando Group is comprised of professionals who have served as executives and managers in a variety of public- and private-sector organizations. We offer extensive experience, strong people management skills, seasoned judgment, and a valuable perspective that allows us to have an immediate impact on the performance of your organization’s employees.
Patrick Ibarra
Co-Founder & Partner
As Co-Founder and Partner in the Mejorando Group, Patrick Ibarra is an architect of innovation and entrepreneur of ideas who seeks to challenge the status quo thinking of “we’ve always done it that way” and replace it with a progressive approach to continuous improvement. Patrick brings organizations over 38 years of experience and in-depth expertise from serving as a Consultant and Manager in both public and private sector organizations, including as a city manager.
Patrick is one of the nation’s leading experts on government succession and workforce planning and has designed and implemented organization-wide programs for a number of public-sector agencies. He also is highly skilled in partnering with elected and appointed officials in developing forward-looking results based strategic plans, designing and presenting competency-based learning/training workshops for employees from all levels throughout your organization, and creating and implementing integrated solutions to optimize people, processes and technology to achieve superior performance.
Patrick holds two advanced degrees, a Master’s in Public Administration and a Masters in Organizational Development. He is certified in Facilitation Skills by Development Dimensions International (DDI) and by the Center for Creative Leadership for assessment and performance support tools (i.e. 360-Degree Assessments).
A frequent speaker at conferences of professions within government including ICMA, NLC, GFOA, along with several others, Patrick shares practical strategies to leaders in their pursuit to move their organization forward in all directions. He also authors articles offering specific actions government leaders and managers can implement to immediately improve organizational performance.
Kristin Esty Ibarra
Co-Founder & Partner
As co-founder and partner, Kristin brings over 32 years of leadership and hands-on experience in public, private, and non-profit organizations. As a practitioner in both public and private sector organizations, in roles ranging from individual contributor to Executive Leadership, Ms. Esty-Ibarra brings her expertise from a variety of settings. Kristin specializes in Leadership and Executive Development; Career Pathing; High Potential identification and Development; Learning/Training and Employee Development, Performance Management, Competency-Based Hiring and Development; Evaluating training and performance interventions; Onboarding; and Learning Management Systems (LMS).
Kristin has a Master’s Degree in applied Social Psychology. She also holds four certifications: 1) Qualified Myers Briggs Type Instrument (MBTI) Administrator; 2) Certified Skills for an Empowered Workforce Instructor and Certified Targeted Selection Administrator, DDI; 3) Human Capital Strategist by Human Capital Institute; and 4) Lominger Architecture for Competency Modeling.
As consultants to government organizations, the members of the Mejorando Group provide expertise in all aspects of performance improvement and organizational effectiveness services, including government succession planning, leadership and management development and training, strategic planning, performance coaching and group/development/team building.