Learning & Organizational Development
Striped Cat Consulting
Who We Are
A trusted partner helping organizations move forward with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
STRATEGIC RIGOR
BUILT ON AGILE,
ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS
Organizations today face challenges that rarely fit within a single function; strategy, leadership, culture, and execution are tightly intertwined. Reflecting the core DNA of Striped Cat Consulting — curious, agile, and rigorously practical — Striped Cat's founder, Angela Barnes, works with leaders to strengthen organizational effectiveness at its source: clarifying direction, aligning people and priorities, and improving the systems that turn plans into results. Her approach combines creative thinking with disciplined analysis to address the structural factors that drive long-term performance.
Partnering directly with executives and leadership teams, Angela diagnoses complex issues, asks the questions others may avoid, and designs practical paths forward. Whether guiding strategy, leadership development, organizational change, or learning initiatives, the focus remains on solutions that are both thoughtful and actionable, enabling organizations to adapt quickly and build momentum that lasts.
Our Leader, Your Strategic Initiatives
Angela Barnes
Striped Cat Consulting Founder
Leadership, Learning & Organizational Design Specialist
MSEd & Technology
Angela Barnes
Education, Expertise, and Certifications
Career
Angela Barnes brings extensive senior-level experience in leadership development and learning initiatives that align people, strategy, and performance. Throughout her career, she has designed and implemented programs that strengthen leadership capabilities and supported organizational effectiveness across complex environments.
Certifications
MBTI Certified Practitioner
Angela Barnes is a certified practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), a widely used framework that identifies how individuals prefer to gather information, make decisions, communicate, and interact with the world.
She applies these insights to strengthen leadership effectiveness, reduce friction within teams, and improve collaboration by helping people understand both their own styles and those of others. Used within leadership development, executive coaching, and team initiatives, MBTI® work translates greater self-awareness into more productive working relationships and stronger organizational performance.
Education
Purdue University, West LaFayette, Indiana
Master of Science in Education, Learning Design and Technology
This degree enables Angela Barnes to:
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understand and apply best practices including competency mapping, job task analyses and needs assessments
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apply project methodology (DMADV) to facilitate organizational changes
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apply Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model when examining six key areas of an organization for process improvements: information, structure, people, rewards, learning systems and work processes
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use Articulate StoryLine 360 and similiar authoring tools for e-learning course development; tech-savvy, able to quickly learn new tools
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develop effective strategies, training and support materials by applying instructional design theories and principles such as the ADDIE or Dick and Carey models or Gagné's Conditions of Learning and evaluate using methodologies like Kirkpatrick's Four-Levels of Evaluation or Kaufman's Five-Levels
DDI Certified Facilitator
As an earner of the Facilitator Certification Process Workshop badge, Angela Barnes has demonstrated the competencies required to become an expert facilitator. creating safe learning environments, respond to learner needs, promote behavior change, and help the transfer learning to the job. She able to deliver all courses in DDI’s Interaction Management® system.
As a Certified facilitator of The Leadership Challenge®, experienced in delivering evidence-based leadership development using the LPI®: Leadership Practices Inventory®, Angela Barnes guides leaders in strengthening the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership—modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart—to improve effectiveness and organizational performance.
The Leadership Challenge Certified Facilitator