“For 15 years my company strategy has worked fairly well, but was limited by my own experiences.  I didn’t have an advisor helping me think beyond my existing resources.  My goal was to take my company from being basically healthy to being much more defined and profitable.  Patty helps me explore new ideas and new ways of evaluating decisions. Even more importantly, she has inspired me to become much more strategic in my thinking.  We have incorporated simple, cost-effective management tools that have had a direct impact on profitability, and we’re fine-tuning the company’s operations, which is having a positive impact at every level.”

Susan Elmore
CEO, Elmore Public Relations
Houston, Texas

"After working with Patty I can now say it is no longer lonely at the top.  Patty has guided me through a year of transition in my company.  She has helped me to become more organized and intentional as I make solid decisions that are based on sound business knowledge rather than on emotion.  She has uncovered business vulnerabilities that we have addressed in a thoughtful and deliberate way.  I am enjoying leadership and running my small business.  It is no longer running me!"

Terri Ammerman
CEO & President, The Ammerman Experience
Houston, Texas

“My business was growing haphazardly. I had a vision for my company, but many of the details were unclear. I was spinning my wheels and spending money without getting tangible results, and had difficulty determining the proper path to profitability. I had been in business for six years and seemed to be working around the clock for little or no return. 

Patty Block took my business from surviving to thriving. After hiring her as a business consultant, I learned the difference between owning a business and being a business owner. She helped identify problem areas in my business, assisting with the creation of a new and profitable business model. My business now runs smoothly, and I have time for myself. Perceptive Marketing continues to grow, and we still use The Block Group as a primary resource and advisory board. We look forward to many years of continuing partnership.”

Sandy Lawrence
CEO, Perceptive Marketing
Houston, Texas 

“Although I am able to evaluate the needs of my company’s nonprofit clients, I needed to find someone who could help me evaluate the needs of my own business, create a strategic financial plan to help us operate better and more profitably, and offer counsel on a number of challenges large and small that were preventing us from being the best that we could be. I interviewed a number of consultants and none of them were right … but then I met Patty Block.

Patty has brought me and the members of my team a world of experience, knowledge, insights, and good ideas. We focus on the bottom line, and also on the many constituent pieces that go into running an effective and profitable small business. We started with the big picture and then began drilling down into client service, management issues, and of course financial planning. The impact has been measurable and infinitely positive. I wish I had started working with Patty years ago, because she is the partner I always needed.” 

Kimberly Sterling
CEO, Sterling Associates
Houston, Texas

"Patty’s work can help transform your business from a dream and a seat-of-the-pants approach to a strategic plan that encompasses several dimensions: financial, vision clarifying, business development structure and sales strategy. She walks the walk in how she conducts her own business … and her professionalism is exemplary."

Tom Ferguson
CEO, Visible Applause
Houston, Texas 

"I reluctantly hired a business coach recently. I knew that I was a good creative person but my business had grown and I was moving out of my element. I knew that I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

After the first meeting, I was wowed by her expertise and understanding about how to grow my business, her intuitive instinct for the problems I was walking through, and the path she laid out. She is no-nonsense, gets down to work and doesn’t waste a minute of your time.  I am thrilled to have her as a coach. I now look forward to every meeting and finding out what is next in the process."

Sherri Oldham
CEO, S.O. Creative
Houston, Texas