Blaze
Chief Visionary Officer
Certified Transformational Life & Business Coach,
Workshop Leader, & Author
Blaze is a fire-starter and mentor to women who want to light up the world. She is committed to helping professional and entrepreneurial women discover who they are and what they want to manifest in their lives.
Blaze (you may know her as Barbara Lazarony) excelled for twenty years in the fast-paced world of a Fortune 100 company, where she created a ‘wildly successful’ career as a Senior Director. She managed 2.5 billion dollars in sales, 210 million dollars of expenses and customer service in forty-two retail locations throughout the United States. In 2003, she found herself face to face with thyroid cancer.
Using her illness as a catalyst, she “blazed” her own brilliant path to recovery and wholeness.
An avid poet and journal writer since she was thirteen; Blaze transferred her diverse skills of leading, executing sales, and managing profit and expenses from the corporate environment to serve as an Executive Director at a non-profit dedicated to using writing to heal. So began the journey of merging her professional skills with her more creative talents and gifts.
Blaze followed her growing desire to mentor and empower others, first by becoming an entrepreneur, and then earning a coaching certificate from Martha Beck and an Advanced Coaching Certificate from the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology. Today, as a guest lecturer for the Ernst & Young’s Leadership Seminar at California State University, Northridge, she uses her intuitive, creative, and sassy teaching style to help people discover their essence, outline their values, and create a vision for their future as leaders in the world.
Blaze is also a Certified Journal to the Self Instructor and is in the final stages of completing her Certificate in Journal Facilitation from the Therapeutic Writing Institute. She is also the author of two books of poetry, a Co-Editor at All Things Healing, and leads writing workshops on creative self-expression, healing, and transformation.
Blaze is passionate about working with women who feel so burned out, overworked, and under-appreciated in their business lives that they are ready to call it quits-but they can’t, because they’re unsure of what’s next or have too much invested to leave. She helps them discover who they really are and explore what matters most in their lives, so they can become the person they have always wanted to be. Blaze inspires women to step into their brilliant blazing light by rekindling their passion, illuminating their purpose, and firing up their power to achieve the results they most desire in their lives and businesses.
(Photo by Michelle Magdalena Maddox)
Blaze is a fire-starter and mentor to women who want to light up the world. She is committed to helping women discover who they are and what they want to manifest in their lives. 
