Co-Founder & CEO of Influential U®; Transactional Intelligence® (TQ) Expert and Executive Educator; Co-Author of "HIGH TQ: Why It Matters More Than Expertise"

Los Angeles, CA, USA
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John Patterson Biography

John Patterson is co-founder and CEO of Influential U® and co-author, with Kirkland Tibbels, of "HIGH TQ: Why It Matters More Than Expertise," the first book to name, define and teach Transactional Intelligence® (TQ) as a third intelligence alongside IQ and EQ.

Patterson's career has been defined by a single preoccupation: what conditions produce high performance and how to build them deliberately. Before co-founding Influential U, he designed enterprise curriculum for a $5 billion organization of 40,000 people — from C-suite leadership development to frontline orientation — then spent more than two decades as a master trainer and regional director running a train-the-trainer program and leading programs in leadership, communication and performance for tens of thousands of people across multiple countries.

Since 2009, Patterson has built and run the full delivery infrastructure of Influential U®: a custom-designed learning management system, course architecture, accountability structures, a podcast series, weekly coaching sessions, a practitioner video library and a faculty and consultant certification program. He has taken the work to corporate stages and executive boardrooms across more than 20 countries and works privately with the executives and teams who want to go deeper.

As a speaker, Patterson addresses audiences of executive leaders, L&D and HR professionals, sales organizations and senior teams on the intersection of human exchange, high performance and organizational intelligence. He explains what happens in the layer beneath every consequential conversation and how to navigate it deliberately rather than be ruled by unseen forces.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/07/2026.

John Patterson Speaking Topics

  • The Intelligence AI Can’t Replicate

    Why the exchange layer becomes exponentially more valuable as AI handles everything else.

    You go in with better material than you’ve ever had. You come out with the same result. AI has resolved the artifact problem — the brief, the analysis, the proposal. What it hasn’t touched is the exchange: the live moment where commitments become real, agreements hold or fail, and outcomes are actually produced. This session makes that layer visible and gives leaders the tools to work it.

  • We’ve Been Calling It the Wrong Thing

    The category error behind your most damaging leadership diagnosis.

    Every organization has condemned “transactional” behavior without realizing they’ve pathologized the category instead of the execution. This session corrects the diagnosis — and shows what High TQ transacting actually looks like.

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John Patterson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Intelligence AI Can’t Replicate, We’ve Been Calling It the Wrong Thing and You’re Not Stuck. You’re Looping. The estimated speaking fee range to book John Patterson for your event is available upon request. John Patterson generally travels from Los Angeles, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Kerry Mitchell Brown, Rob Whitfield, Morag Barrett, David Novak and Ken Keis. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling John Patterson for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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