Areas of Expertise

• Executive Coaching
• Team Facilitation
• Leader Development
• Meeting Design/Facilitation
• Organizational Change/Alignment
• Tailored Presentations

Level/Type of Individual Clients Served Within Organizations

• Corporate Officers
• Senior Executives
• Female Executives
• High Potentials

A respected leader on credibility and transparency, Barbara Pagano helps organizations worldwide capitalize on the bottom line benefits of responsible transparency that builds credibility. Driving strategies of alignment and integration, she works with senior executives, business owners and teams to create processes that ensure sustainable business success and have a measurable impact on productivity, innovation and loyalty.

Barbara’s research on credibility, the diagnostic tools she has developed, and her focus on skills and measurable improvement, offer leaders proven methods for building trusting, high-performing relationships. She inspires, teaches and holds leaders accountable for results.

She combined her broad experience in leadership and her extensive research in human behavior in the groundbreaking book, THE TRANSPARENCY EDGE: How Credibility Can Make or Break You in Business (McGraw-Hill, ©2004), chosen by Fast Company magazine as their “Book of the Month” for March 2004. Written with her daughter, Elizabeth Pagano, an award-winning business journalist, the book has been translated into four languages, including Spanish and Chinese, and has been among Bookscan’s list of 50 best-selling new business books in America. It hit #7 on Barnes & Noble’s list of bestselling business ethics books.

Because of her leadership expertise, Barbara was recently named an adjunct faculty member of the Leadership Institute of Baptist Health Care (#10 on Fortune’s 2002 list of "Best Companies to Work For" and winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award), which provides leadership training to CEOs and senior vice presidents of healthcare organizations worldwide.

With graduate degrees in human behavior and 20-plus years as a coach and facilitator for Fortune 500 firms, Barbara is a nationally-recognized and sought-after presenter. Her success with global audiences and teams has positively impacted organizations. Articles by and about her have been published in various national and regional business publications and newspapers.