Speaker Bio - Pat Wagner
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Pat Wagner has been working with innovators in the information community since 1978 as a researcher, trainer, and consultant.

She specializes in improving productivity and workplace relationships and is known for her effective and good-humored approach. Her classes and coaching sessions address personnel, management, leadership, strategic planning, and career development issues, as well as project management. She trains for many well-known library-training organizations, including Infopeople, Solinet, Nelinet, and Palinet. She speaks frequently at state and national library conferences, including SLA, ALA, MLA, ARMA and AALL and is the LAMA/ALA regional institute trainer for project management, conflict management and influence.

Pat knows the challenges of the solo special librarian firsthand. She and her husband, Leif Smith, run Pattern Research, Inc., a 31-year-old research and training business in Denver, with clients in most states and several countries. They have served inventors, scientists, authors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and professional researchers, including journalists and special librarians. Without a staff, she books, on average, over 130 workshops each year in over 25 states, including everything from researching topics to finding hotels rooms to designing curriculum to opening the phone, as well as responding client requests. Her furniture is dusty, but she has time for life’s important things and is never late for a workshop.

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