About Our President

With 30 years of executive level corporate business experience across several industries and almost 20 years of coaching experience, Patti Ayars – President of Turning Point Consulting – has the ability to coach you to implement successful strategies that make a real difference to the bottom line.


Prior to founding Turning Point, Patti was the Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications for Roche Diagnostics Corporation. Patti also spent 21 years with Monsanto Company in a variety of global and domestic strategic Human Resource, Organization Development and Mergers & Acquisitions positions. In mergers & acquisitions Patti developed processes to ensure value capture as Monsanto spent over $8B acquiring new companies, was the project leader in establishing a successful start-up of a joint venture and led the integration of key processes in a $17B merger.


Patti began her coaching career in 1991 by working with over 100 senior leaders in transforming a patent protected business to one operating in a competitive environment. Since that time she has been successfully coaching CEO’s, Executive Vice Presidents, General Managers and other senior leaders as they drive growth, lead change, further develop their ability to lead organizations, acquire and divest companies and transform the culture or their organization.


Patti is the author of the book The Art of Leading Transformational Change and is the co-author of the book Mastering Momentum: A Practical and Powerful Approach for Successful Change. She also co-developed and taught an eight month course entitled Leading Transformational Change.  She is certified in the Center for Creative Leadership assessment tools and is a member of the International Coach Federation, the International Speakers Network and the National Association of Women Business Owners.  Patti is also a Board member for the Peace Learning Center and the Indianapolis Chapter of the International Coach Federation Chapter and has served as a mentor for the Indianapolis Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association.