{"id":8050,"date":"2024-05-06T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talentrise.com\/?page_id=8050"},"modified":"2025-01-31T16:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:08:15","slug":"laura-barker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talentrise.com\/laura-barker\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"hero simple bg-blue-gradient\">\n    <div class=\"container py-12 md:py-22 block flex flex-row\">\n        <h1 class=\"text-40 text-center sm:text-50 text-white mb-4 leading-snug\">Laura Barker, PCC, CPCC<\/h1>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"\" class=\"bg-white  py-16 side-by-side\">\n    <div class=\"container flex flex-row flex-wrap justify-end items-center\">\n                    <div class=\"w-full md:w-1\/2 lg:w-1\/3 md:pr-12  pb-6 md:pb-0\">\n                                    <h2 class=\"section-title md:text-left text-center\">Director of Coaching and Leadership Development<\/h2>\n                                                    <div class=\"md:text-left text-center mt-7\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/laurambarker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6067 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talentrise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LI.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"63\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"w-full md:w-1\/2 lg:w-2\/3 md:pl-12 pt-6 md:pt-0 md:text-left text-center post-content left-border-red\">\n                <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talentrise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Laura-Barker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talentrise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Laura-Barker.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.talentrise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Laura-Barker-480x234.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Laura has 20+ years of business experience in HR and project management, including compensation and benefit program design and review as well as talent management and performance improvement programs. She has extensive international corporate experience in cultural transformation especially related to mergers and acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">She\u00a0has worked with small, mid-market, and large national and international companies in the pharmaceutical, hospitality, employee engagement, supply chain, and food manufacturing industries.<\/p>\n<p>Laura focuses on leadership coaching, specifically, steering with purpose, developing key leadership skills, and gaining clarity to maximize personal insight and professional growth.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Laura holds a B.A. from McGill University and is coach-certified with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Co-Active Training Institute (CTI). Laura is also a PCC and CPCC Certified Coach. She is Past Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, Member of the Board of Governors for an independent school in Toronto, and is Co-Founder of 100 Women Who Care&#8217;s Toronto West Chapter.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveindex.com\/reference-profiles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talentrise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/collaborator.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"w-full md:w-1\/2 lg:w-2\/3 md:pl-12  md:text-left text-center\">\n                                    <a class=\"inline-block button button-blue-dark px-16 mt-4\" href=\"mailto:barkerl@talentrise.com\" target=\"_blank\">Contact Laura<\/a>\n                            <\/div>\n            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