Terry Barclay

President and CEO of Inforum and the Inforum Center for Leadership in Detroit. Formerly known as the Women’s Economic Club, Inforum, one of the largest women’s business organizations in the United States, provides more than 2,200 members with opportunities to connect, forge alliances, discuss vital civic and business issues, and advance as leaders. Under Barclay’s leadership, membership has increased more than 300 percent and has expanded to include mid-Michigan and West Michigan. Corporate support for the organization has grown from 10 to 73 major businesses and Fortune 100 companies. Barclay also led creation of the Inforum Center for Leadership, a nonprofit education and research organization whose mission is to accelerate careers through a leadership development program that allows women to challenge themselves, take risks, and reach the next level. In 2003, the center launched the bi-annual Michigan Women's Leadership Index, which has received national and international attention and is recognized as a benchmark survey measuring the progress of women at top executive levels in major Michigan corporations. As a result of the Index and the leadership development program, Barclay was invited to join the executive committee of ION, a national research and board placement organization for professional women. Barclay previously served as senior vice president and chief external affairs officer for Hospice of Michigan, vice president of university relations at Oakland University, and founder and president of Operation ABLE of Michigan. Under her leadership, Operation ABLE was named the “Best Managed Nonprofit” by Crain’s Detroit Business in 1990. In 2007 Crain’s listed Barclay as one of the “100 Most Influential Women” in Southeast Michigan and in 1992 one of the “40 under 40.” She serves on the boards of the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, St. John Health, and the Henry Ford Health System hospice, and sits on the Kaufmann Fund’s Ethics in Research and Medicine committee. She earned a bachelor’s in urban studies from the College of Wooster and a master’s from the University of Michigan. She is the author of several scholarly articles, and co-author of the 2003 and 2005 Michigan Women’s Leadership Index.