Bob Barry Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

At Tampa Bay Job Links, we work with individuals to help them find new employment. We work on strategic networking, resumes, and interviewing techniques. Our aim is to aid in their career continuation and get them back to work.

I enjoyed starting and running my own company, On Point Coaching Solutions. My job as a personal success coach was to focus on my client - student, entrepreneur, business person, business leader, business executive - whoever acknowledges the need for help and trusts me to help them. That was my mission. What drove me then was what had driven me throughout my life - the need to help others to find their voice, to achieve their dreams, and to reach their full potential. I have always believed that there Is no more important job in the world than to enable the success of others?

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Senior Career ConsultantMullin InternationalBeing a Senior Career Consultant with Mullin, to provide support and guidance to job seekers who had been displaced from their jobs due to reduction in force, was a great role for me. I took pride in guiding job seekers to find successful reemployment solutions, and empowering them to conduct a competitive job search. While I continue to provide such coaching within my own coaching business and as a Career Strategist for TampaBay-Job-Links, my work with Mullin came to a close when the company was acquired by Lee Hecht Harrison, in October 2017.

St. Petersburg, Florida

I had the good fortune to work with a great team of people to ensure that leadership development became a primary focus at all levels within the organization. I worked on a variety of initiatives that were driven by leadership competencies identified as important for the success of the firm. Among my other duties as consultant, I served as Project Manager for an important change/management initiative within two departments, and I managed a team of high-potential leaders, who were Executive Committee appointees, through the Senior Leadership Development Program. It was an honor and a privilege to work with them and to help contribute to their future success.

I was with ProVest for two and a half years and enjoyed great success. In that time my team and I were able to establish a growing curriculum of live workshops on leadership and professional development, launched ProVest University - our own online learning center with over 400 courseware titles, and created an extended learning experience called ProVest Training Camp offering a more comprehensive orientation for the onboarding of new team members for Operations. ProVest is the leading legal documents management company in the United States with as many as 1,100 employees on payroll in 2009 and offices in Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, New York, and San Diego.

I was blessed to be able to work with a great team at Lee Hecht Harrison, in the Tampa office where I was a Career Coach, assisting individuals and organizations to manage career transitions. I enjoyed working with a very professional staff as we made a positive difference for those we served.

Palm Harbor, Fl

My career had always positioned me on the periphery of Human Resource Management until my opportunity to work for Xcenda. There I had great fun developing my skills as a Human Resource Generalist. As such I coordinated benefits administration, managed employee relations, directed the hiring and selection process, provided employee development and leadership development opportunities and contributed to the firm's organizational development.

Being selected to establish the first efforts to provide leadership development for University Community Health was a great thrill for me. It was the first time I had the opportunity to work in the healthcare field and I found it to be profoundly fulfilling. It was my job to form a new department and launch the initiative to develop management skills and leadership competencies for a multi-facility healthcare system. My personal goals included improving patient satisfaction scores (Press Ganey), and also reducing turnover. I served as an internal consultant/coach for managers and I designed, developed and delivered a new Leadership Development Core Curriculum resulting in a reduction in turnover from 31% to 13%.

As the Manager of Training & Development, I designed and delivered interpersonal, leadership, and technical training serving employees and franchisees nation-wide. In the time I was with Cox Target Media (Val-Pak) I reorganized staff for improved efficiency and greater instructional effectiveness, leading a staff of 14 training professionals.

Staff Leasing (today known as Tri-Net and previously, Gevity HR) was a growing Professional Employer Organization (PEO) in 1995 which had no internal training function. I was selected to establish a centralized training function as part of Human Resources and developed staff responsible for all corporate training and development initiatives with budgetary responsibility for department and company-wide spending on tuition assistance, internal program development, and external training programs.

Conservco was part of the Property/Casualty arm and later the Employee Benefits Division of Travelers Insurance, specializing in disability management services and then managed care. As Director of Human Resource Development I directed all staff and management training activities for 1,700+ employees nationwide. While in that position I developed productivity and performance benchmarks, consulted with senior management on cultural, communication, and organizational needs and was responsible for new program development and delivery.

Ms, Instructional Technology

Activities and Societies: Past President of Eastern States Association for Teacher Education

Professional Coach, Professional Life, Career, & Executive Coach

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Bs, Secondary Education - English