About Us - Our Leadership Team In Detroit

Ellen Patnaude

Ellen E. Patnaude is the owner of The Leader's Institute Detroit and has been training, motivating and coaching people to higher levels of success in a professional capacity since 1997. Her gift of insight allows her to often see what those with whom she is working are not able to see on their own – what is really getting in the way of their success. Ellen has a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Biology and French. Her formal education is overshadowed by the education that she has received from life – living abroad in Paris, France; rural Nicaragua, where she became fluent in Spanish; and some of our nation’s depressed urban centers.

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Doug Staneart

Doug Staneart is the President and CEO of The Leader’s Institute, LLC® and has been a speaker and trainer since 1994.  Doug spent eight years as a trainer and a sales person for some of the largest and most successful training companies in the world before he founded The Leader’s Institute® in 2002.

Doug is the author of the best-selling books Fearless Presentations, Mastering Presentations, Cultivating Customers, and 28 Ways to Influence People and Gain “Buy-In”. 

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