Forty years.
At the highest level.
Patricia's career spans four decades in banking — from FNB through Nedbank Corporate, to nineteen years at Standard Chartered Bank where she rose to Executive Director and Sub-Regional Head for Southern Africa, leading a 63-person team across six countries and holding a seat on the MENA Top Team.
Twenty years at the most senior level of corporate and international banking. She knows what it costs to perform at that altitude over decades — the visibility, the isolation, the invisible weight of leading in environments not always designed with you in mind.
"I am not looking at your world from the outside. I spent forty years inside it — paying the same invisible tax, carrying the same unspoken weight."
What she saw
in those sessions.
During her final years at Standard Chartered, Patricia volunteered as a coach in the bank's IGNITE programme — working with high-potential women at Director and Executive Director level. Over three years she accumulated more than 300 documented coaching hours.
What she recognised was not a capability problem. These women had the track record, the strategic thinking, the accumulated experience. What they could not always access was that capability when it mattered most — under pressure, in high-stakes moments, in rooms where everything felt like a test. She had lived this herself.
And she recognised that the tools available to them were not reaching the level where the real issue lived.
"The capability was there. What wasn't always accessible was the ability to reach it under pressure. That is not a knowledge gap. It needs a different kind of work entirely."
The tools that
go deep enough.
Patricia holds her Foundational Executive Coaching qualification (100 hours) from the University of Cape Town. She completed her hypnotherapy training through Paul McKenna's programme at Mindvalley in 2023 — beginning while still at Standard Chartered, driven by the conviction that lasting change requires working at a deeper level.
She holds her NHR (Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning) certification through EKIS Italy and her NLP Practitioner certification through NLPI — both within the lineage of Dr. Richard Bandler, co-creator of NLP, by whom she is personally certified through the Society of NLP™.
She is a registered member of the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR/GHSC, UK), accredited by the International Centre for Clinical Hypnotherapy (ICCH, UK), and a member of the International Association of Professional Coaches & Practitioners (IAPCP).
"When I found hypnotherapy and NLP I finally understood why so much of the work available to women like me had only ever reached the surface. Neuroplasticity is real — and when you know how to work with it, the results are genuinely different."
ANEWPAGE.
Built for this.
Patricia founded ANEWPAGE PTY LTD in November 2023. From this foundation she developed GALES™ — a five-phase proprietary framework for lasting transformation, trademarked with CIPC in February 2026. The practice is based in Johannesburg and works with clients online worldwide.
The name ANEWPAGE is deliberate. Not a reinvention — a continuation. Everything that came before is in the room: the career, the hard-won experience, the understanding of what it genuinely costs to lead at the highest level over decades. ANEWPAGE is where all of that becomes useful to you.
"Be the change you seek — and experience the change from within."
