About Barbara Palmer
Barbara Palmer has more than 25 years experience as a coach and consultant, and has had her own company since 1990.
Barbara has worked with executives and companies across a spectrum of global businesses, headquartered in the U.S. and around the world, including: consumer products (Colgate-Palmolive), industry/manufacturing (USI Chemicals, Barnes Group, AEG Daimler, Modicon), and training and consulting (AchieveGlobal, Learning International, Juran Institute), with particular emphasis in the area of high technology (Advantest, OptimalTest, Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, Apollo Computer, Hewlett-Packard). Before starting her own company, Barbara was vice president/group manager for business-to-business clients at Cohn & Wolfe, a subsidiary of Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s leading public relations consultancies, where she supervised high-technology and industrial accounts before moving to Cohn & Wolfe.
She received her training in corporate coaching from Corporate Coach University. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation and is on the steering committee of the Westchester, New York chapter. Barbara is also a mentor coach with Women Unlimited, a national leadership development program.
In addition, Barbara supports the Ethics Resource Center in Washington, D.C., and created and presented a workshop on coaching and ethical corporate cultures at the 2005 annual conference of the Society for Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals.
During her career she also developed and taught workshops for New York University’s School of Continuing Education and Women in Communications.