Dr. Barry Thompson

Dr. Barry was born in Alaska but began his working career in South Africa. With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Thompson has worked for global giants such as IBM, SAP and Oracle but also knows the strains of running his own business. Having learned how both the small and large business world operates, he has been able to identify and offer productivity improvements for various groups within organizations such as sales, marketing, operations, supply chain, finance, executive management, customer service and vendor relations. As an author, coach, keynote, pastor, counsellor, teacher, adjunct professor, husband, dad and grandad, Barry draws from unique and powerful experiences …both successful and not so successful! To compliment this hands-on knowledge, Dr. Thompson was awarded a doctorate in leadership and adult learning. This has enabled him to present the best of both the real and academic world to his clients that include IBM, Oracle, SAP, State of Colorado, various chambers of commerce, and Scentsy.

Passionate about Performance: Barry is passionate about seeing each person reach their optimal performance which boils down to confidence. Low performance is often due to low confidence and high confidence leads to high performance. Famous leadership gurus like Maxwell, Blanchard, Covey, and Ziglar have underlined the need for confidence but, until now, no one has offered a simple path to confident performance. Dr. Thompson’s latest book, Confidence-Driven Living, is a down-to-earth look at how confidence impacts your performance and offers insight into how to gain confidence in every area of your life. His sessions build on these truths.

Market-Mission-Value: Barry believes these principles are essential and applicable to everyone. One recent account executive reported that after many seminars and training classes, this was by far the easiest and important lessons she had learned. Attendees have noted that their sales have improved, their book of business has grown and new avenues have opened to them.