Modern Elder Academy

Role: Provided workshop facilitation, consultation and facilitator training.
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I love working with Barb for a few reasons. She's curious, discerning, funny, collaborative, thoughtful, idealistic and she sets a high standard for everything she does. We've been incredibly fortunate to have her as a thought partner and facilitator at MEA, the world's first midlife wisdom school, as her perfect alchemy of art and science has helped us create an even more compelling curriculum.

—Chip Conley, New York Times bestselling author and CEO of Modern Elder Academy 

Pixar Animation Studios

Role: Trained managers and leaders on dynamics of power and status

Barbara offers extraordinary insight on the complexity of organizational dynamics.  Drawing on improvisation, Barbara delivered workshops on power, rank and status that were fun as well as eye opening. I look to Barbara for wisdom and thought-provoking ideas on the state of organizations and the role power dynamics play in who gets heard and how to create positive change. Her humor and warmth are added bonuses!  

​—Jamie Woolf, Manager of Leadership Development

​Wieden + Kennedy

Role: Provided consultation and training on gender dynamics
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The issues around gender are tough and can be scary for people to open up about, but Barbara does an amazing job of creating a safe space for all genders to open up so we can understand each other, and ourselves, and that’s the first step to making progress.

​-Jason Bagley, Former Executive Creative Director,  Portland Oregon​

Hearst Magazines

Role: Provided consultation and training on gender dynamics

​Barbara offers some of the most relevant and intelligent insights on power dynamics as it relates to men and women at work. She is at ease and relatable in any environment - from the most senior to entry level. Men as well as women. Her approach is wise, grounded and real. 

​—Keesha Jean-Baptiste, Former Senior Vice President, Chief Talent Officer, 

International Federation of the Red Cross

Role: Delivered custom trainings on dynamics of power and status  for humanitarian development contexts

Working with Barbara has transformed my professional experience. The skills and ways of seeing that she offers have greatly enhanced my ability to understand what’s going on around me and to shape personal and organizational interactions so that the best can emerge from people. Our humanitarian team now understands, based on insights and results, why I have been so adamant in engaging Barbara in our work.

​—Pablo Suarez, Associate Director for Research and Innovation, Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre

Mercy Corps

Role: Consulted on international community development projects and trained global youth leaders in conflict resolution and leadership

I have worked with Barb for over 10 years on a variety of projects and she consistently contributes incredibly keen organizational and cultural insight. She has been a great collaborator - I would recommend her highly for training and consultation. She brings a rare blend of smarts, collegiality, humor, knowledge, and experience. Work with her - you won’t regret it!

​—Nick MacDonald, Senior Performance Analytics and Learning Advisor

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​German Red Cross


Role: Created process design and facilitated an international climate change dialogue platform

Barbara helped us to design and co-facilitate a Dialogue Platform in Geneva where scientists, humanitarian practitioners and policy people exchange on innovative new concepts related to funding humanitarian aid. This very challenging environment needs specific tools to enable dialogue! Barbara was the perfect facilitator to bring the different experiences together and to make the "Dialogue Platform" a real dialogue event. Everybody enjoyed working with her and the participants loved the interactive design of the conference.  

​—Alexandra Rüth, Head of the Climate Change Adaptation Project Group, Berlin, Germany

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding

Role: Collaborated on international dialogue and peacebuilding efforts.

I have collaborated with Barbara over the years in our shared work in international peacebuilding. I am deeply familiar with her skills, passions, and commitments. She demonstrates a rare capacity to work with diverse international constituencies and collaborate across sometimes competing organizational lines. She has done groundbreaking work in Dialogue Processes, demonstrating expert design and delivery. I will be using her work, myself. You should too.

​—Dr. Paula Green, Founder, Professor Emerita, School for International Training Graduate Institute

Fohs Foundation

Role: Provided consultation and project recommendations for the development and support for peace and bi-communal civil society initiatives in Israel.

​​Barbara combines a deep knowledge of psychology and intergroup dynamics with expertly developed personal skills in facilitation and oral communication. She would be my choice for any exercise in building bridges across cultures.  

​—Howard Sohn, Chair

​Jagiellonian University 

Role: Provided training on leadership and power to senior leadership consultants

We hosted a two-day workshop co-facilitated by Barbara and we were incredibly impressed by the way she tackled important, sensitive issues. The experience was also fun and engaging without losing depth or intellectual backbone. I highly recommend her services to anybody interested in practical exploration of the way people relate to each other at work.

​—Maciej Świeży, PhD, Senior Consultant & Program Director Kraków, Poland


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University of Oregon

Role: Facilitated trainings in dispute resolution for lawyers using dialogue and improvisational techniques

Barbara is an incredibly skillful facilitator and trainer. Her wisdom about social relationships, insights about individual psychology and personality, combined with her warm and empathetic approach, provides participants with supported space to integrate new and impactful learning. She doesn’t let us turn away from discoveries, but also doesn’t force them, or her own interpretation, on us.  If you have the chance to work with Barbara, you should do it.

​—Jane Gordon, Vice Provost for Portland-

Delivering Happiness

Role: Delivered organizational consulting and training on company values and culture

I knew we had to work with Barbara from the moment we met. Her facilitation style is lively, dynamic, incredibly engaging, and grounded in a thoughtful, deep experience you might miss as she effortlessly reads the group and applies years of experience and theoretical knowledge in an unassuming, modern and inspiring way.  

​—​Sunny Grosso, Culture Chief

Creative Facilitation

Role: Collaborated on training for disaster preparedness in humanitarian contexts

Barb is a talented and engaging speaker, facilitator, and trainer who can hold an audience’s attention, while dealing with difficult and complex issues. She has the rare combination of intelligence, curiosity and assertiveness that makes her incredibly effective, as well as fun to work with. If you want something done, get Barb involved! I’ve had the great pleasure of working with her on some big and small projects, and every time she is able to concurrently hold the big picture with the small details. This is a rare talent indeed.  Five stars ✭✭✭✭✭

​--Viv McWaters, Co-founder and Author, Melbourne, Australia
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