About

As an award-winning professional photographer, TJP President Patrick Jinks has learned the value of viewing leadership challenges through the right “lenses.” Changing perspective can make all the difference when faced with the latest challenge.

Following over two decades of leadership in the nonprofit sector, Patrick “changed lenses” and now serves the social sector from a different perspective. His years of successful leadership as a nonprofit CEO give him unique insight into the challenges and opportunities nonprofit leaders face.

Patrick is a certified leadership coach, professional speaker, facilitator, planner, and trainer with a proven 25-year track record in organizational leadership. He is also a certified Influencer trainer through Vital Smarts — the people who brought us Crucial Conversations. He has been touted as a Game Changer in USA Today and a Master of Success in the Wall Street Journal for his unique approach and success coaching nonprofit leaders and boards.

Patrick is a dynamic, entertaining, and thought-provoking keynote speaker whose stages include Universal Studios, The Citadel, and The United Nations. He is featured in the Impact Speakers Group, and his topics range from leadership to strategy.

Patrick is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, an adjunct executive leadership coach with Leadership Systems, Inc., and has served as adjunct faculty for Millersville University’s Nonprofit Resource Network (in Lancaster, PA), and for United Way Worldwide’s Center for Community Leadership at the Mary M. Gates Learning Center in Alexandria, VA (in the Washington, D.C. metro area).

Patrick is a recent past president of the Blue Ridge Institute, a national network of nonprofit and community service executives. He is a two-time training award winner through the Association for Training and Development.

Patrick is a multi-best-selling author, and a member of the National Association of Experts, Writers, & Speakers. He is the author of  Strategic Fail: Why Nonprofit Strategic Planning Fails, and How to Fix It  and a co-author of Taking the Leap: How to Build a World-Class Coaching Business, which also includes Marshall Goldsmith, Marc Thompson, and others.

His second collaboration, Success Starts Today, with Chicken Soup for the Soul author, Jack Canfield, is now available in print and eBook. And his solo book is now available on Amazon.