Barbara Lay
Lay Consulting
Barbara Lay is president and founder of Lay Consulting, a niche firm that works
with clients to enhance the leadership capability of senior executives and rising
stars through executive coaching, group facilitation and designing custom executive
education and development programs. Executive coaching services include
leadership and organizational assessments that provide critical insights and deeper
understanding along with strategies that address the assessment data to achieve
clients’ desired outcomes.
In addition to her consulting practice, Barbara is Associate Director of Outreach for
the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship, College of Business, at Florida
State University. In this position, she provides executive coaching and management
consulting to business owners throughout Florida, focused on helping them run
their businesses more profitably and improve their overall performance.
Clients include multinational corporations Motorola, Ford Motor Co. and Suzlon Wind
Energy as well as privately held companies in product design and manufacturing,
regional banking, high technology and health care.
Before opening her consulting practice in 2005, Barbara spent more than 15 years
working at Motorola headquarters in Chicago and at Standard Chartered Bank, a
London-based bank, for which she was based in Hong Kong and Singapore. Her
positions ranged from director of a technology center to heading up leadership and
management development organizations. Barbara’s experience has given her a
unique perspective in understanding clients’ needs, situations and opportunities for
improvement in today’s global environment.
Prior to her corporate experience, Barbara owned Vintage Tiles Arts Studio for more
than six years, where she designed and manufactured jewelry and created a range
of custom art pieces.
Barbara holds a Masters in Instructional Systems Design from Florida State
University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Florida. She holds
professional certification in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and is experienced in
administering a range of assessments including 360 assessments.