Dr. Patricia Porter holds a Ph. D from the University of British Columbia, a Master's Degree from Birmingham University, a Diploma in Special Education from the University of London and is a recipient of a Churchill Fellowship. She has made it her life’s work to help children maximize their learning potential. During her 35 years as teacher in the UK and Canada she discovered major discrepancies of children whose grades would not match their true abilities. Passionate to bridge that gap Patricia dedicated 7 years to research, receiving her doctorate from UBC in Child Education Development in 2006.

This, together with the specialist training she received from the esteemed Reuven Feuerstein, a cognitive and developmental learning psychologist world renown for his theory of intelligence, Patricia developed her own, proprietary learning skill assessment program called the Pathfinder© Process that is provided through her company Leading to Learning. She is a very active member and past president of Rotary Vancouver Quadra.