About Dr. Layton
Dr. Marissa Layton is a strategic leadership expert, executive coach, business strategist, and entrepreneur with more than 12 years of experience helping leaders, organizations, and business owners grow with greater clarity, alignment, and intention.
She currently serves as a Vice President of People & Culture, where she leads work across organizational culture, leadership development, talent strategy, employee experience, and organizational effectiveness. Her career also includes Fortune 1000 consulting experience, advising leaders and organizations on strategy, change, people, performance, and sustainable growth.
Dr. Layton is also an experienced entrepreneur and former consulting firm founder. Through her own business, she has spent years building offers, selling professional services, coaching clients, developing digital products, creating growth strategies, and navigating the realities of entrepreneurship firsthand. That experience gives her a practical understanding of what it takes not only to develop strategy, but to build, market, sell, and sustain a business.
Dr. Layton holds a Doctorate in Strategic Leadership and a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership. Her work sits at the intersection of leadership, strategy, culture, business growth, and transformation, allowing her to support CEOs and executives navigating complex leadership challenges while also advising entrepreneurs building profitable, sustainable businesses.
Through Executive Leadership Coaching, Dr. Layton partners one-on-one with CEOs, executives, and senior leaders to strengthen how they lead. Her coaching focuses on areas such as executive presence, strategic decision-making, leadership-team alignment, culture transformation, difficult conversations, communication, accountability, and organizational effectiveness. Her approach combines leadership assessment, customized development planning, intentional accountability, and practical application to create measurable growth beyond the coaching session.
For entrepreneurs, Dr. Layton brings both strategic expertise and lived business experience. She works with established service-based business owners through private coaching, VIP Intensives, and strategy sessions to strengthen revenue strategy, offers, positioning, operations, marketing, sales, and growth planning. Because she has built and operated her own consulting business, her guidance is grounded not only in frameworks, but in the real decisions, tradeoffs, and execution required to grow a business.
Faith remains central to Dr. Layton’s work. She is passionate about helping purpose-driven women, particularly millennial women of color, build businesses, careers, and lives that reflect both their values and their calling. She believes strong strategy and faith are not competing ideas; strategy can be one of the tools used to steward what God has placed in your hands.
Throughout her career, Dr. Layton has also been deeply committed to nonprofit leadership, community impact, and leadership development. She has supported national initiatives, organizational transformation efforts, and leadership development across diverse environments.
She is also the author of How to Effectively Prioritize, an eBook featuring a practical system she developed to better manage competing goals and responsibilities.
At the core of Dr. Layton’s work is a simple belief: growth should be intentional. Whether she is coaching a CEO, advising an organization, or helping an entrepreneur build their next level, her goal is to help people lead with greater clarity, make stronger decisions, and create sustainable impact.