Patty deVries

Born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Patty graduated from Stanford University in 1989 after receiving a full-athletic scholarship. She was a 9-time NCAA All-American in the Shot Put and Discus and competed at the 1988 Olympic Trials. In 1995, she founded TimeOut Services, which by 2008, earned $5 million in yearly revenue and employed over 100 team members. Patty and her team were instrumental in designing the original wellness programs for Google, Cisco, Yahoo!, Safeway and KLA-Tencor.

In 2009, Patty sold the corporate wellness division, and trademarked Community BootCamp program, to Plus One of New York (now part of Optum). Patty's awards include: The Key to the City of Grand Forks, North Dakota, Business Journal Top Women in Business, and the Top 50 Influential Women of Silicon Valley.

Today, she supports the wellness initiatives across the Stanford Enterprise, which includes: Stanford University, Stanford Health Care, Stanford Children’s Health and Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC).

I grew up in a home where emotions called the shots and I often felt powerless over my own. Through years of internal work, study, and experiential learning, I have collected practical exercises that have profoundly changed my vision of the world and my internal and external environments.

Clients describe learning a lot about themselves within the first session and they begin to shift their view of their world.

We all need a little help sometimes and finding someone to talk with, especially in our current world circumstances, is a gift.