Mike Barr is a sought-after business advisor to senior leaders in Fortune 100 organizations. His consulting and coaching focus – “evolving minds…transforming businesses” has earned him the reputation as a valued business partner. Mike helps clients achieve business results – primarily leading successful change in organizations, strengthening leadership teams through assessment and coaching, and importantly, supporting global companies in achieving their business objectives through successful marketing, communication and cultural awareness. Mike has extensive cross culture experience, having lived in Europe , Canada , Latin America and the United States , and having traveled extensively in the Middle and Far East . Mike is fluent in four languages and has held a variety of teaching, consulting and coaching positions.

Mike has worked closely with company presidents, economists, professors, change managers, investment bankers, scientists and information technologists to understand the power of language – getting them to hear themselves as their constituents hear them. For example, Mike worked with the president of a major pharmaceutical firm to craft an internal marketing and implementation plan to prepare for and implement far-reaching change. This resulted in this company now being a leader in its market. Mike has also worked with numerous global business leaders to create successful IPO communication and marketing strategies and implementation plans. This has resulted in the successful raising of several billion dollars in the capital markets, in a difficult market climate. In both of these examples, as with his numerous senior-leader coaching clients, Mike strives to sensitize executives to the challenge of addressing the complexities that are unleashed when leaders undertake sweeping changes.

A partial list of Mike’s clients includes the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, GE Capital, Merrill Lynch, IBM, Salomon Brothers, Deutsche Bank, RJR Nabisco, EF Sweden, Novartis, Schering AG, McDonalds, Hoffmann LaRoche, and The Conference Board.

• Founder & CEO, Barr Associates
• Instructor, The New School, Management Program, NYC
• Instructor, The Conference Board, Senior Economists, NYC
• Professor, Polytechnic University , Management Graduate Program
• Professor, New York University , Tisch Graduate Program, NYC
• Professor, Rutgers University , NJ . Management Program

• Harvard , MA
• Saskatchewan University , Canada , BA
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
• Canada Council Grant

Business Affiliations/Activities/ Other

• Operation Smile , Volunteer and pro bono consulting
• The Returning Peace Corp. Volunteers , Volunteer and pro bono consulting