We’re pleased to present our latest featured profile, designed to introduce you to our member consultants, advisors, executive coaches, clients, partners and other extraordinary people. These profiles go beyond the professional bio to provide a more personal glimpse and offer an opportunity for us to get to know each other better as people as we strive to create connections and build community.
In this featured profile, we’re pleased to feature Consultants Collective member, Brian Barnier. Brian is focused on growing companies, investments and countries, bringing practical insight to investors, boards and management to help them bridge from strategy to execution. He accelerates improvement in business results through a risk lens that incorporates both growth and turnaround lessons learned across industries, professional disciplines and countries. Brian brings a unique synthesis on change ranging from global economics to technology that is reshaping time-space. This synthesis stems from his experience in both business model investing, and general and product management. These perspectives are why his accomplishments have tended to be in initiatives requiring foresight and thoughtful execution in complex and dynamic environments. Internationally, he maintains relationships in more than thirty countries and has a passion for economic development.
Who is your favorite painter or composer?
My favorite artists are Edgar Degas or Oscar- Claude Monet, then Hans Zimmer
What is a hobby of yours?
Sailing
Why do you do what you do?
I love always doing something new.
What is your favorite quote?
I just used this one in a paper I penned… “The most exciting discovery in looking at the whole span of 200 years of innovation is how much the innovators were democratizers, bringing reality to the rhetoric of liberty and equality.” – Sir Harold Evans, author, They Made America: Two Centuries of Innovation, from the Steam Engine to the Search Engine (New York Times bestselling book and Public Broadcasting System series).
What is your latest accomplishment?
ThinkDesignCyber.com, a new online resource with the goal of making your cyber world more secure and your life easier
What would you say is your chief characteristic?
I am an Active Learner.
What makes you happy?
Enabling others to achieve objectives – especially outdoors or something physical.
