Barbara Babenco Healy, Consultant and Corporate Coach, M.A. OD

Barbara Healy Associates

Phone: 203 314-0950  Email: bh@barbarahealyassociates.com

Barbara Babenco Healy is an accomplished learning leader and speaker. She is the Founder and Principal of Barbara Healy Associates, a consulting group focusing on increasing performance, facilitating transitions and helping generations work better together. 

Barbara’s background includes more than two decades of management and consulting experience with a variety of organizations and clients.  Her corporate experience includes her role as Vice President of Learning and Development for People’s United Bank where she transitioned a training department into a highly successful organization development strategic group.  Her

efforts focused on building a learning culture through leadership and management development (People’s Corporate University), performance management, succession planning and OD initiatives including culture and change. In addition, she coached and consulted to a variety of Bank senior officers, managers and teams. Barbara came to the Bank 2 years earlier, to help the (then) new CEO develop the organization’s leadership framework and processes.

Barbara served as a Senior Associate at Good Work Associates, a consulting firm in New Haven, CT. Prior to moving to Connecticut, she established and served as Executive Director of Communities In Schools in Snohomish County, WA, where she was recruited by senior executives from Boeing, Costco and other corporations to lead a community-wide public/private partnership integrating business, social service and education.

In her consulting role, Barbara’s clients have included: NY Times Magazine, Bassett Computer, The Boeing Company, People’s Bank, State Farm Insurance, City of New Haven, the Jewish Federation, New Haven Public Schools and various Yale University departments & United Way agencies.

Barbara has her Masters degree in Organization Development and Whole Systems Design.  She is certified as a coach facilitator and trainer and she continues to learn and develop. Her most recent speaking engagements include the Conference Board Change Management Conference where she was the Conference Chair/Facilitator and speaker on “How to Effect Change during Business Transformations”, the Chief Learning Officer Summit on “Leading in Times of Change, A CLO’s Challenge” and The Jewish Federation Community Tribute to Leaders on “MultiGenerations: The Four Generations Living and Leading Together.”

Barbara believes passionately in the power of developing people in order to create solutions.