Dr. Sarah Layton President/CEO

Dr. Sarah Layton, CEO

Sarah Layton is the founding Managing Partner of Corporate Strategy Institute, Inc., a strategic management-consulting firm based in Orlando, Florida where she has played key roles in planning the strategic direction for services industries including financial services, healthcare and real estate and manufacturing/production industries including automotive, food, beverage and machinery.  A quick study, she immerses herself in learning about her clients and their needs as the first order of business for each consulting,  board  or speaking assignment.

 Dr. Layton grew up in her family’s manufacturing business where the principles of integrity, ethics, customer and employee relations, sales and marketing and general management and business concepts were instilled at a very young age. After bachelors and Masters degrees, she developed and directed a college healthcare program. Later a Fortune 500 healthcare company recruited her for marketing and product development. Having a keen eye for business opportunities she was the founding managing partner of a successful real estate development and management company. While there, she served as a director of the Greater Orlando Area Board of Realtors serving on the finance, ethics and PR committees. Earning her Doctorate in Business in 1991 she stepped down as CEO to manage Corporate Strategy Institute, where she remains today. She has written numerous articles and a book on strategic planning, (Competitive Strategies: Planning Your Organization’s Success), and is the former host of Time Warner’s Central Florida Business Review. Most recently, she traveled to Fontainebleau, France to complete qualification for Blue Ocean Strategy tools, concepts and framework.

Known and respected for her integrity and a sense for doing what is right, she serves as a Trustee for Florida Southern College, including current Chair of the Orlando Campus Board, and member of the finance, academic affairs and presidential selection committees. She is a director of The St. John Assoc, Inc., the oldest direct mail marketing company in New York. She has served as a director of PulseCard, a credit card processing company serving on the nominating committee.  She served as Secretary and director of PGM Ornamental Engineering, a metal manufacturing business. She is an elected Trustee of the Junior Achievement Foundation and is a charter member of the Free Enterprise Society of Junior Achievement. She is an elected national director for the Institute of Management Consultants USA and chaired the 2004 North American Conference for Management Consultants. She served as Vice Chair of the College for Certified Management Consultants of IMC USA and national chair of Elections and Strategic Planning committees of the National Speakers Association.

 Dr. Layton has received numerous awards including the President’s Award for Service from the National Speaker’s Association, The Distinguished Alumni Award from Florida Southern College and the Marketer of the Year award from American Hospital Supply Corporation. She is a strong believer in constant improvement and has attended Director Consortiums given by Yale, Wharton and UC and is a member of NACB. She received her BS from Florida Southern College, her MS from University of Tenn., and her Doctorate in Business from NovaSouthEastern’s Huizenga School of Business. She resides in Windermere, Fl and enjoys golf, bicycling, scuba, and hiking/jogging. Her Personal Scrapbook chronicles some of her previous exploits and activities.

Corporate Strategy Institute
Windermere, FL

(407) 425-1649