Our Story
Our work focuses on systems change and individual performance. We work with universities, nonprofits, allied health professionals, individuals needing performance coaching, and growing organizations to bring clarity, alignment, and sustainability to their operations and roles.
As partners in both life and business, this work is deeply personal to us. Having spent years working across healthcare, education, and community-based settings, we have seen firsthand the impact that well-structured programs, confident health teams, and strong leadership can have — and the challenges organizations face when those systems and individuals are unclear or unsupported.
Our commitment is to help organizations, staff and leaders not only build impactful work but sustain it in a way that truly serves communities over time by providing leadership and performance coaching, supporting individuals across industries in navigating complex roles, strengthening decision-making, and sustaining high performance.
Our multi-faceted approach is grounded in real-world experience across healthcare, higher education, and community-based systems, with a focus on building solutions that work in practice — not just in theory.
I know firsthand what it means to work within complex systems as an executive in the non-profit sector, to build programs and define roles at universities, and to navigate the allied health profession within both private and public health sectors.
— Dr. Misty Patton, Founder
Dr. Misty Patton is a doctoral-level organizational leader with more than 20+ years of experience working at the intersection of healthcare, education, and community engagement. She is the founder of Patton Research & Health Systems Consulting LLC — a firm grounded in the belief that when organizations are thoughtfully structured and leaders receive comprehensive support, communities are better positioned to thrive.
I don’t coach to “fix” people, I coach people because I want them to remember who they are and who they can be.
—Coach Bryan Patton, Co-Founder
Coach Bryan Patton is a performance coach with experience turning potential into real results. Born and raised in San Francisco, he knows what it takes to navigate adversity, build resilience, and rise above it. His professional foundation in Behavioral Health and Case Management has given him a front row seat to human transformation.
He specializes in helping people “cut through” the noise, develop winning strategies, and show up representing their best selves, whether at work, in life, or in the boardroom. Strategy is the tool he chooses, and empathy is the power he uses. Results are his standard.