About the Founder

Barbara Infante, founder of Agile Aging, is a strategy and improvement leader with more than 25 years of experience turning complex, stalled initiatives into measurable results.

Long before founding Agile Aging, Barbara volunteered as a hospice advocate, working directly with elders and their families - an early, personal connection to this field that has stayed with her ever since.

Before founding Agile Aging, Barbara led a team of Lean Six Sigma Black Belts and Process Managers at Becton Dickinson, delivering $24M in annual impact from process improvement initiatives in 2024. She's a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Agile Product Owner, and now brings that same rigor - combined with hands-on execution and a longstanding commitment to senior living - to help leaders get unstuck and move important work forward.

In 2025 and 2026, Barbara traveled nearly 20,000 miles across three countries, visiting more than 100 senior living communities - talking directly with leaders, teams, residents, and families along the way.

That gives Barbara something most leaders don't have time to build for themselves: real visibility into what's happening across the industry - what other organizations are trying, what's working, and what isn't. It's a perspective she brings into every client conversation.

Her work is further grounded in ongoing education in person-directed care, including through Cornell University, Pioneer Network, Eden Alternative, The Green House Project, and Humanitude.

Want to know what other organizations are doing? Ask Barbara — it's usually where the best conversations start.