Transforming executives into impactful communicators
Two decades of experience working with
Your ability to communicate can make or break your success. Let's work together to ensure you shine every time in the boardroom.
Executive Presence Coaching
Transform into an authentic and impactful communicator with my proven methods. As an International Coaching Federation (ICF) certified expert, I specialize in media training, executive presence consulting, and camera presentation skills development. My strategic, intellectual, and logistical expertise is offered both in-person and virtually. I provide tailored advice for public speaking, media engagements, and handling press inquiries on a national and international scale.
Given her unmatched expertise and extensive experience as an award-winning television journalist, Ashleigh truly helped to define and shape my ability to become a better, more effective communicator, and because of this, a better leader. In the CEO world, these skills are paramount to success.
Communications, Marketing, Brand Development
Elevate your executive communications with expert guidance on messaging and proactive media engagement. Anticipate media inquiries with precision, ensuring unified narratives. Learn how to deliver impactful announcements tailored to your specific audience. Training is offered both in-person and virtually. Benefit from strategic insights for global media relations. We will collaborate on crafting innovative messaging campaigns. As your content steward, together we will drive communications from case studies to awareness campaigns. Your message, refined and amplified.
Ashleigh brought her exceptional talents to make a difference at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), creating effective communication platforms to give Veterans a national voice. With warmth, compassion and respect, Ashleigh showcased their lives as Telehealth advocates, oncology patients, parents navigating Covid, community leaders and so much more in the first ever VA commercials sponsored by T-Mobile and Verizon. Her graceful and positive persistence and skills in building strategic partnerships enabled the VA to reach Veterans more broadly, on new platforms and with more effective messages.
Media Interface Training
Rooted in trust and transparency, I offer specialized media training and consultation services. With nearly two decades of dynamic communications experience, I have honed my skills in television news production, live broadcasting, and shaping public narratives for esteemed national networks such as ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. Allow me to guide you in mastering the nuances and art of media interaction.
Within only a few sessions with Ashleigh, I became much more comfortable and engaging in front of the camera, and confident in my ability to manage dialogue with guests and make them feel more comfortable themselves. That was critical for my success as a host.
Government Contracting and Consultancy
I’ve led and managed internal and external communications for critical U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs programs in collaboration with esteemed partners such as The American Legion, Bristol Myers-Squibb, Philips Health Care, The Prostate Cancer Foundation, Sanford Health, VFW, and Walmart. These programs span areas like tele-mental health, tele-oncology, precision medicine, precision oncology, and wellness care. Our outreach encompassed a wide range of campaigns, from podcast series and op-eds to generously donated ads, video testimonials, and comprehensive event promotions across the nation. With national dual certifications as a Women-Owned Small Business and as a Women’s Business Enterprise, a regional certifying partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the gold standard for women-owned business certification in the United States, I have the ability to compete for federal grants and contracts.
I discovered Ashleigh during her stellar reporting at CBS news in Phoenix during the highly publicized “wait-list” scandal at the VA. I was immediately impressed with her professionalism, tenacity, and understanding of effective communication on all levels. During my tenure as Secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, I recruited Ashleigh to serve as my lead strategy and communications advisor. She outperformed at every step and it is my belief that we would never have reached the minds and hearts of America’s Veterans were it not for her essential contribution to the VA.
Strategic Partnership Campaigns
From national commercials to informational case studies, your mission and message matters. Watch these examples of my co-creation management with companies including Sanford Health, The Prostate Cancer Foundation, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Walmart.
Meet Ashleigh Barry
Ashleigh Barry is a multi-award-winning communications executive, her various coverage as an investigative journalist has garnered multiple Emmy Awards and nominations, as well as the distinctive Edward R. Murrow Award. Ms. Barry is a certified executive coach with a unique specialty in executive presence coaching and advising on media techniques, communications strategies, and shareholder reach. As the Chief Executive Officer of Barry Media & Communications, she currently lends executive coaching expertise and serves as the primary host for Global One Media’s exclusive one-on-one digital “Stocks to Watch” series featuring international CEO’s of publicly traded companies. Ms. Barry most recently served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications and Media Relations for Western Magnesium Corporation. Additionally, she spent nearly four years in the Federal Government as a Senior Executive specializing in strategic communications for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Ms. Barry served as the lead communications advisor to Presidential VA Cabinet secretaries across two administrations. Preceding her service to Veterans, Ashleigh spent nearly 20 years as an anchor, investigative, and cold case reporter for television networks including ABC, CBS, Fox News Channel, NBC, and MSNBC.