Pat Layton

Speaker, Bestselling Author, Ordained Pastor, and AACC Certified Life Coach

Pat Layton is a passionate and dynamic speaker, bestselling author, ordained pastor, and AACC Certified Life Coach with over 35 years of ministry leadership. Her life’s work has been dedicated to helping women find freedom in their stories, healing from their past, and purpose for their future.

Pat has founded and led multiple life-impacting ministries, including one of the nation’s first and largest pregnancy resource centers in Tampa, Florida, where she served as CEO for over 25 years. She is also the founder and president of an international abortion recovery ministry based on her bestselling Bible study, Surrendering the Secret, now used by over 6,000 leaders worldwide.

As a strategic ministry consultant and fundraising coach, Pat has helped raise over $5 million dollars for life-affirming causes across the nation. Her unique blend of heartfelt storytelling and clear, actionable ministry strategy makes her a trusted voice at women’s events, leadership trainings, ministry conferences, and pro-life fundraising galas.

Pat has been a featured guest on major national platforms such as Focus on the Family, Lifeway Women, Proverbs 31 Ministries, Today with James Robison, Janet Parshall, Heartbeat International, Care Net, and AACC.

She is the author of six books, including Life Unstuck: Finding Peace with Your Past, Purpose in Your Present, and Passion for Your Future, inspired by Psalm 139 and the foundation for much of her coaching and teaching.

Pat and her husband Mike have been married for over 45 years and enjoy life in the North Georgia mountains, where Pat writes, mentors, and welcomes women to her “She Shed” for coaching and quiet retreat. They have three married children and five treasured “G’s” (grandchildren).

Visit www.patlayton.net to learn more.

Surrendering the Secret

Surrendering the Secret Devotional

A Life Surrendered

Surrendering the Heart of the Father

Life Unstuck

Healing a Women's Heart

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Dr Saundra Dalton Smith, Speaker and Recent Banquet Board Member

Beyond a Speaker! Pat is a Strategic Partner. She doesn't just inspire an audience — she moves hearts to action. With a proven track record of helping ministries exceed their fundraising goals and cultivate lifetime donors and friends, Pat brings strategic insight, storytelling mastery, and a deep heart for ministry to every event. If your goal is to build momentum, strengthen your mission, and create a lasting community of ministry partners Pat Layton is the voice you want at your event.

Allan E. Parker President, The Justice Foundation

Pat Layton and her message is a key to unlocking the secret places of millions of women’s hearts hurting from abortion. The waters of healing tears need to overflow these secret places, unlocking an army of women ready to Do Justice and Be a Witness. Healing comes from confession and surrender.

Lysa TerKeurst, NY Times Bestselling author and President of Proverbs 31 Ministries

If I could hand pick the perfect person to write a book or make a speech about healing after an abortion, it would be my friend, Pat Layton. Her advice is tender, realistic, and filled with hope. As a woman who has experienced the depths of emotions an abortion brings, I am so thankful for the Surrendering the Secret Bible study and for Pat’s new book A Surrendered Life.

Andrew Erwin, Filmmaker, October Baby

As a filmmaker, your job is to use the craft of storytelling to expose an issue that needs to be looked at and talked about, but after people are talking, they need the right people to talk to. So many people who watch October Baby desperately need that and that’s why I’m grateful for Pat Layton. Her work with those individuals who have experienced the pain from abortion is unparalleled. And the healing I see coming out of her ministry to so many post -abortive people reassure me that those who need to talk are in very good hands.