Barbara Spang Minsker, Ph.D.

Barbara Minsker provides training and facilitation to companies and non-profit organizations to develop leadership skills and promote healthy and productive workplaces. Since launching her business in 2010, Barbara has supported businesses, government agencies, and other organizations in developing stronger staff, teams, and leadership with the emotional intelligence skills and knowledge to achieve new levels of innovation and success.

Barbara's training and facilitation are based on a simple idea — that emotional intelligence (EQ) skills and knowledge are the key to leadership and innovation and ultimately success. She uses a unique synthesis of proven EQ approaches called Mindful Living with Purpose and Resilience.

Barbara is currently Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Bobby B. Lyle Professor of Leadership and Global Entrepreneurship at Southern Methodist University. She has won national awards for her leadership of major national and university initiatives and has successfully launched two start-up organizations. And Barbara has completed more than 400 hours of leadership training plus over 150 hours of mindfulness instructor training. (Barbara's CV)

You may also be interested in Barbara's books on how to personally apply these principles and lead a more joyful life.