Founder & Principal

Kumari Patricia

Kumari founded Open Sky Partners after a career dedicated to helping people navigate growth, transition, and meaningful change.

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Bio

Her professional background spans behavioral health, social work, higher education, counseling, executive coaching, and leadership development. She has served as a university educator, program director, counselor, and coach, helping individuals and organizations strengthen their capacity to lead, adapt, and thrive.

That experience provides a unique perspective on recruiting.

Rather than viewing hiring as a transaction, Kumari sees it as an opportunity to strengthen organizations from the inside out by placing leaders who improve care, inspire teams, and create healthier workplaces.

Her understanding of behavioral health allows her to evaluate candidates with insight that extends well beyond résumés and credentials.

At a glance

  • Extensive Background: Brings diverse experience in behavioral health, social work, higher education, and executive coaching as the founder of Open Sky Partners.

  • Relationship-Driven Recruiting: Treats hiring as a strategic opportunity to strengthen organizations from the inside out, rather than a mere transaction.

Rethinking Wellness Leadership

The way to support the wellness needs of a society at the fringes of a breakdown is not by exhausting your frontline mental health workers. It is by finding the right directors and CEOs of these centers who are willing to re-think delivery models and staffing.

Connecting Strategy with Talent

I can help marry the needs of your organization with singular talent that will increase your visibility and be strategic in the way mental health support can be delivered to your clientele.

Your Leading Executive Search Partner

Start with me as your resource. I can do the work to secure the best professionals for some of the most needed human service roles our rural and urban communities need.

We don’t just fill roles; we align purpose. Empowering exceptional professionals to thrive, and behavioral health organizations to transform lives.

Kumari Patricia

Director of Operations and Research

Jean Alexander

Jean is passionate about ensuring work and information flows smoothly and efficiently. She is client focused and believes in bringing more than merely the work product to the equation.

Jean manages all the details in our systems used to track candidates and match them with client needs. She brings to Open Sky Advisors previous operations management experience and an existing relationship with Kumari in other business endeavors. Jean is on board to keep information flowing, stay on top of research in the fields we serve, and coordinate the human and system resources needed to keep things running.