Our Team

Patrick Walker

Entrepreneur, executive coach, consultant and musician. Decades of experience in strategy, change management, team development as well as reinvention and transitions, both business and personal. Which might be another way of saying “I’ve made so many mistakes along the way I can barely remember them all. And recovering from them has made all the difference”.

When not working with nôrthish clients, Patrick works with the telos institute doing executive coaching and consulting with entrepreneurs and senior leaders.

Why might you want to work with Patrick? With a deeply rational side that is balanced by a reverence for the mystical and spiritual aspects of life, he is strategic, tactical, compassionate and relentlessly persistent. If you want to make sustainable changes in the direction of whatever you care most deeply about, he will be an unshakeable ally.

Jeanne Walker

A nurse practitioner with many years of caring for patients with cancer under her belt; they have been her greatest teachers. (Just kidding about the belt, she hates belts and doesn't wear them.) Jeanne is passionate about coaching, teaching and practicing yoga, aging with purpose and generativity, and creating habits and practices that facilitate living with integrity, always with the end in mind. Memento mori. 

Jeanne also provides executive coaching and consulting through the telos institute, focused primarily on health care leaders.

Why might you want to work with Jeanne? She is masterful in personal reinvention, focusing on “what matters most” in helping you to realign powerfully to move in a new direction - and is a deeply wise, caring and empathic listener. She is an expert in designing, building and sustaining new habits to serve bold goals.

Alan Nôrthish, Founder

“To help ourselves and others to get and stay aligned with what matters most - that has great power. As does knowing how to enjoy the journey, which is inevitably a non-linear, unpredictable, surprising journey. Seems I grew into my name over the years.

Go nôrthish. Not rigidly, or perfectly - north-ish is good enough. Play the long game. We are works in progress. Life is messy. Meandering is good. In fact, it is inevitably, inescapably the way we grow.”

- Alan Nôrthish (1922 - 2000)