Also known as: blschultz
Barbara L. Schultz is a senior consultant whose scope of experience allows her to work within the intersection between Organization Development and Change, Leadership and Organizational Communications and Coaching, as well as both internal and external Corporate Communications. She emphasizes leadership development, inter-cultural business communication, employee engagement and customer focus. Drawing from extensive experience as a professional communicator, Barbara works collaboratively with clients and colleagues to lead, strategize and execute global and system-wide change initiatives, ranging from aligning and/or outsourcing business processes to transforming corporate cultures. Her unique approach integrates organizational change methodologies with proven communication guidelines to achieve clarity, consistency, credibility, authenticity and interactivity throughout an entire change process. With a passion for professional development, she also applies the latest knowledge from emerging disciplines—such as neuroscience, intercultural communication and social media—to clients’ initiatives. The result is a complete system of strategic, well-integrated communication for an organization’s leaders, managers and entire business community. Select industry and client experience includes hi-tech (Cisco, Symantec, HP, SGI, Cognos, Compaq, Apple, SPANworks-Toshiba), entrepreneurial global marketing (Global Connexus), telecommunications (AT&T), biotechnology/pharmaceutical (McKesson), consumer/office products (Clorox, Eastman-Kodak, Xerox, Polaroid), media (Knight-Ridder), energy (Chevron), marketing strategy development and implementation coaching for Finnish entrepreneurs (Global Connexus and Oulu Innovation), as well as many small-medium businesses and socially-oriented organizations. Barbara holds a BA in Journalism and Communications from UC Berkeley and an MA in Organizational Leadership from The Center for Leadership Studies. Specialties • Change and communication strategies, plans and implementation • Change readiness assessment, analysis and related strategy development • Leadership team coaching emphasizing change mindset, collaboration, communication skills and inter-cultural business communication • Facilitation of stakeholder alignment • Strategic global marketing and implementation for entrepreneurs • Training, workshop, meeting and event strategy design and implementation • Well-honed writing, editing skills
