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Patrick Ko
CEO, Paradigm Education

Patrick is the founder and CEO of Paradigm Education, a social enterprise in Taiwan that partners with FranklinCovey Education. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Patrick was an educator for 12 years, most recently as the Director of the Center for Innovative Learning at the Junyi School in Taidong, Taiwan. Patrick has a wide range of teaching experiences – he has taught mathematics at the Fay School, a prestigious boarding school in suburban Boston, and he was the Director of Curriculum and Teaching of the bilingual department at the Taipei Fuhsing Private School, one Taiwan’s most well-regarded schools.
Patrick is passionate about service – he has volunteered in rural Taiwan, Thailand and Nepal, where he co-developed and oversaw a new campus construction for a boarding school in the Himalayas that currently serves 700+ children, from grades K-10.
With global experiences both as a student and a teacher, Patrick is passionate about applying and localizing the best practices he learned, especially in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The Leader in Me process, in order to improve the education system in Taiwan.
Patrick holds an MA in Education Leadership from Teachers College at Columbia University and dual degrees of Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Engineering and BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.