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 have a measurable impact on productivity, innovation, and loyalty, ensuring sustainable business success. 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.
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 a Book of the Month. Written with her daughter, Elizabeth Pagano, an award-winning business journalist, the book has been translated into four languages, including Spanish and Chinese. It hit #7 on Barnes & Noble’s list of bestselling business ethics books.
Barbara and her daughter are the founding partners of yourSABBATICAL, which helps companies attract, retain and accelerate top talent through the use of highly planned and structured leaves of absence. They are sabbatical thought leaders, bloggers and authors.