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About Barbara Palmer

Barbara PalmerHaving more than 25 years experience as a consultant and coach, Barbara has worked with CEOs and other senior executives; marketing, product and communications managers; engineers, and other specialists across a spectrum of global businesses headquartered in the U.S. and around the world.

She has created and implemented marketing and corporate communications strategies for companies in high technology and industry (Advantest Corporation, AEG Daimler, Apollo Computer, Barnes Group, Compaq Computer, Digital Equipment, OptimalTest, USI Chemicals), consumer products (Colgate-Palmolive, Genesis Direct), and training and consulting (AchieveGlobal, Learning International, The Juran Institute). As a coach, she has worked with executives and entrepreneurs in these and other industries, including banking, finance, pharmaceuticals and non-profit. Before establishing Palmer Communications in 1990, Barbara was vice president/group manager for business-to-business clients at Cohn & Wolfe, a subsidiary of Burson-Marsteller, where she previously worked, managing a million-dollar public relations account.

She earned a B.A. in journalism with a minor in physics from New York University and trained as a coach with Corporate Coach University. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation (www.coachfederation.org) and volunteers as a mentor-coach for the executive LEAD program of Women Unlimited (www.women-unlimited.com), a national leadership development program.

In addition, Barbara supports the Ethics Resource Center in Washington, D.C., (www.ethics.org) and has written articles on ethical organizational cultures and marketing and ethics, most recently for the Institute of Executive Development (www.execsight.com).

She has developed and taught workshops for the American Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals (www.governanceprofessionals.org), New York University’s School of Continuing Education and Women in Communications (www.womcom.org).  Active in her community for many years, Barbara is a Founders Circle member of her local chapter of Girls, Inc. (www.girlsinc.org), a national non-profit youth organization founded in 1864.