THE FOUNDER
Patricia Collins
Founder and Principal Advisor
Former CMO, EVRYTHNG
London-based IoT startup, US market entry
Former VP, Growth Strategy, IBM
Three VP roles across ABM, GTM, and Growth Strategy
Founder & Principal Advisor, Blumaverick
Executive Authority Architecture
The problem has a name.
It took years to name it clearly.
She wasn't failing. She was absorbing the cost of a gap the organization had never named.
She also learned, firsthand, what happens when performance runs ahead of authority.
In 2021, a health crisis created the pause that forced clarity. Patricia was operating two levels above her recognition — carrying the structural weight of decisions, accountability, and organizational momentum that her title didn't reflect and her organization hadn't caught up to.
That recognition became Blumaverick.
Before founding Blumaverick, Patricia Collins built her career across the full spectrum of enterprise and emerging technology. As CMO of EVRYTHNG — a pioneering UK startup working at the intersection of IoT, predictive maintenance, machine learning, and blockchain — she led the company's US market entry at the birth of the Internet of Things. As VP of Growth Strategy at IBM, she turned six years of organizational decline into 20% growth in eight months.
Patricia founded the firm to work with executives who are already performing at the next level — and who need the organizational structure, authority architecture, and decision rights to match.
Not to prove their value. To command it.
Blumaverick has worked with executives across enterprise technology, emerging technology startups, private equity-backed growth companies, and global financial services.
About Us
Blumaverick was built for one reason.
Too many high-performing executives are running outsized scope inside titles, mandates, and compensation structures that don't reflect it.
Not because they lack ability. Because the authority arch. That ends here.
Blumaverick is a private executive advisory firm — for VPs We do one thing:
Build the authority architecture around your role.
So it matches the scope you're already running.
Our methodology — the Executive Authority Model™ — was built from decades inside the structures it's designed to fix.
Authority is not earned through performance alone. It is architected deliberately. Around your mandate. Your decision rights. Your organization.
It is not a program. Not a curriculum.
A precision system built around you.
By Patricia Collins - Pioneer CMO · EVRYTHNG (US market entry, $0–to-scale) VP, Growth Strategy · IBM (Cloud, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure — $30B portfolio)"
Who We Work With
Executives who are:
— Running outsized scope while peers with comparable performance get the title.
— Carrying executive-level work without the formal mandate, decision rights, or compensation to match it.
— Done waiting for the organization to catch up to what they're already delivering.
Who we don't work with
Blumaverick is not for everyone.
— We work with a small number of clients at any given time.
— Every engagement is private. Bespoke.
— Built for one person — you.
If your scope has outgrown your title — and you're ready to close the gap…
→ Apply for Executive Authority Brief™
Executive Questions
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The Executive Authority Model™ is the proprietary executive authority methodology behind every Blumaverick engagement.
Built to diagnose the structural gap between where you're operating and where your organization formally recognizes you — and close it.
It is not coaching. It is not consulting.
It is personal private executive advisory.
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Start with the BluShift™ Assessment. https://calendly.com/blumaverick/assessment
It's a 30-minute diagnostic conversation — no pitch, no pressure. We map your authority gap, name what's breaking down, and show you exactly where you stand.
If there's a fit, we'll outline the next steps. If there isn't, you'll still leave with more clarity than you came with.
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Executive coaches work on your presence.
Blumaverick works on your authority. You're operating above your title — the decision rights and buy-in haven't followed.
Blumaverick is a private executive advisory working 1:1 with VPs and Directors to diagnose exactly where the gap is and close it.
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You can reach us anytime via our contact us or email at hello@blumaverick.io.
We aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.
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Precise. Direct. 1:1.
We go straight to the structure, name what the organization won't, and move fast. No cohort. No curriculum.
Just rigorous 1:1 work on the authority gap — until the buy-in comes, the scope creep stops, and the org finally recognizes the executive you are.
The gap between what you run and what you're authorized to direct has a cost.
Most organizations never name it.
We do.