Barbara Roberts
Barbara worked on Wall Street for 15 years, holding senior positions in securities research, investment policy and marketing at Blyth Eastman/Paine Webber and Dean Witter. Immediately before leaving Wall Street, she was Senior Vice President, Director of Capital Markets Marketing for Dean Witter and was the first women on Dean Witter's Board of Directors. She also served on its stock selection, economic policy and investment strategy committees. Upon leaving Wall Street, she was featured in an article in the Wall Street Journal where she coined the term "The Glass Ceiling."

After leaving Wall Street, Barbara became President and CEO of FPG International and then Acoustiguide as well as holding the position of COO Pryor Ezcel. The story of how she turned around FPG is used as a Harvard case study of a highly successful socially responsible business. She also chaired joint ventures with the Chinese government and the Japanese company, Denon, to bring high quality audio content and technology to their museums and historical sites. She has served as Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Business and Agricultural Advisory Board. Since selling her last company, Barbara has been coaching CEO's, business owners and C-Suite executives and facilitating strategic planning retreats and peer-to-peer learning groups for various organizations. Her companies and management philosophy have been profiled in two books, David Bollier's Aiming Higher and Lance Berger's Deengineering the Corporation.

Barbara has been trained in coaching and facilitation by the Edward Lowe Foundation, The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, The Women Presidents Organization, Tiger 21, Julia Cameron (author of The Artist's Way) and The International Association of Facilitators. She is a regular speaker on business issues and has spoken at many conferences including those sponsored by Inc. magazine, Ernst and Young, the Women Presidents Organization and the Committee of 200. She is a member of the board of the 14th Street/Union Square BID/Local Development Board, serves on the Suffolk County's Economic Development Board and was recently appointed the Southampton Commissioner on the Suffolk County Planning Commission as an expert in business issues. Barbara has an Economics and Philosophy degree from Goucher College and lives and works in New York City and Sag Harbor, NY.