I was introduced to Krissi Barr in 2004 and have successfully worked with her for the last 3 years. I have been associated with various coaches and consultants over the years but had never been exposed to the unique approach that Barr Corporate Success utilizes. Our company is an engineering driven organization that is not easy to introduce to the more personal tactics that Barr & Associates applies to bring out maximum performance based on individual and interpersonal skills. We took a newly formed group and with Krissi’s guidance broke down our personal objections to organizational thinking and learned how to understand our personal strengths and weaknesses via personality testing and used this new awareness to maximize our effectiveness with our internal and external customers.

This approach really opened our eyes to the barriers that we allowed in the past to throttle our growth opportunities and gave us the tools to learn new ways to sell and execute our strategies. This process is a methodical approach that starts with a personal strength and weakness analysis and takes you through business strategy development with a closed loop accountability and ownership system.

I highly recommend Krissi to anyone looking to change their business and take on a growth strategy that understands the power of people over traditional business school tactics. Krissi combines this personal empowerment approach with analytical business tools to create not only successful results but accomplishes this in an enjoyable manner that doesn’t feel like work.

Krissi brings high energy that infects your organization with enthusiasm and drive to implement goals that will change your business. She is tireless and always brings a smile to your day regardless of the challenge at hand.

Anyone that associates with Krissi will find out that she will not only be your coach and consultant but will end up as your life long friend as I have learned.
Sean P. Shafer



Krissi Barr showed us the art of thinking outside of our comfort zone. She created a sense of teamwork and culture using "great performance goals" to guide us into innovative problem solving. Within a very short period of time, our organization began seeing tangible results. We wonder how we could have survived without Krissi's roadmap to success.
Anthony Parkinson

Your efforts have resulted in the formation of one of the most passionate and energetic sales teams I've ever been part of. You completely energized my entire sales organization, marketing and customer service. We now have structure, goals and a bulging pipeline to boot. We couldn't have done any of this without BCS. It was the best money I've ever spent.
Phil Huff

Without you, we would not have been able to build our company to the level it is today. Your fortitude, knowledge, and expertise gave us the strategy and structure we needed. You didn't hesitate to steer us in directions that were appropriate, even when those were challenging decisions.
Marvin Roberts

The success of the program's goals of team building and company building is evident in daily operations. It is very gratifying that the majority of these goals are now standard operating procedures. Krissi kept us on target by encouraging, mentoring, and scolding us when necessary, but never giving up on the goals or the individuals involved. One of my own goals was to transform from manager to leader. Her coaching provided me with a new awareness of leadership issues and the confidence to take the actions necessary for that role.
Peter Davies

In the beginning, I was skeptical, but through your process of goal setting and disciplined follow-through, our sales and strategic efforts have greatly improved. We have moved from a company living off of existing business to one that is developing processes, metrics and accountability to go after new revenue growth. Your process is well defined and the coaching to move us in the direction we need has been extremely helpful.
John Schomburg



She also assumed tasks and responsibilities that helped our entire organization realize the criticality of high performance, results-oriented culture where every member of the team contributes. Perhaps the highest compliment I can pay Krissi is that we originally tried to hire her as a member of our staff and then tried a couple of more times thereafter.
Casey Foreman

Many members of the team felt you were just another consultant. Early in the process, we discovered your program was different - within a few weeks we were able to start breaking down department silos, changing mindsets and developing a sales culture. The time you spent giving me direction and advice has made me a stronger leader and better person.
Tom Kaferle

Since Krissi arrived, teamwork, productivity, and communication between departments have significantly increased. Your role as the external driving force behind clearly understanding our current business, defining common performance objectives and gearing our goal setting across the internal departments of our product group was exactly what our growing company needed.
Dan Mulgrue

There is a tremendous amount of positive momentum and energy in the group. Enthusiasm and sense of being a stakeholder is growing. Very much on the right track to help us get more aggressive and reach higher business goals and objectives and increase revenue.
Mark Rentschler

I was not in favor of using Krissi Barr's consulting services. I was not convinced an 'outsider' could possibly benefit our organization. Within a couple of meetings, she had the entire product team focused on newly defined goals and marching to those targets! Krissi has a real talent in getting people to look beyond their current tasks and see the potential. She was quick to help filter those ideas into viable goals. I could not be more pleased with the quality of work and how much we all enjoyed the process.
Stephen Royer



Thank you for your tremendous impact. I truly love the energy and raw enthusiasm you bring, but at the same time you effectively press and demand results from your team. You're a Rockstar Krissi!
Michael Pelfrey

You are the best! Your energy and enthusiasm are endless. It's exciting to see the team getting excited. You can actually see the juices flowing!
Dale van Stratten

In one short year, our sales are up, our company has a more professional look and feel, roles and responsibilities are being met with great enthusiasm. I am truly amazed at the positive changes Krissi has helped our company to achieve. Her dynamic personality and positive energy is truly contagious.
Denise Aronson

I learned from the best!
Joe Hiett

I am grateful for the time and energy you invested in me specifically this year. I am now more aware of my potential and have a great deal more courage as I move forward into a new and very challenging year.
John Bradford



We couldn't have done it without you!
Sheila White

Your services are truly Great Performance. Thank you for challenging us, stretching us, encouraging us and making us accountable. Thank you for helping us learn to be better leaders and to learn again, the importance of learning.
Molly Koch

The process she follows has kept the team on track in setting and achieving our aggressive goals. I couldn't imagine how we could have reached these goals without her leadership and counsel. Krissi continues to be a valuable asset to our organization
Tom Jackobs

The team and the company has a definitive path for success.and a mindset that will ensure we achieve our Great Performance Goals.
Irmgard F. Hehmann

Thanks for helping me become better at what I do
Joseph L. Boccanera



Thank you for your hard work as a member of the Lunken Airport Oversight and Advisory Board. I know this was a challenging position and you committed significant time and energy toward this important work. Your guidance helped airport administration make better decisions that reflect both the community concerns as well as the aviation role at Lunken.
Charlie Luken

I have had similar experiences to coaching programs in the past and by far this was one of the best I have experienced. Your persistence took us farther than we have ever been before
Steve Colston

Krissi Barr is a powerhouse. She is bold, but packages that boldness in a wonderful human quality. I have twenty-five years as a CEO and her operational experience coupled with her conceptual ability makes it possible to effectively sell and deliver.
Louis Strike

I have come to know Krissi Barr as both a colleague and I can say with all sincerity that she has one of the sharpest business minds of anyone I now. Krissi has the rare ability to ask the right questions as she comes up to speed on a project, while at the same time asking the tough questions we don't' always like to hear, but know that we must answer to solve our problems.
Ronald Moss

Krissi represents success to me. She took me under her wing when I was on the brink of losing my job due to reorganization. She told me she recognized my value and worth and taught me all she could about sales and marketing. We became a team. You cannot feel sad when you're around her. Her zest for life is contagious. She makes you feel worthwhile and her concern for others is genuine. Under her guidance, a person strives to be the best they can be.
Donna Henkenberns



Thank you for your guidance, strength and love. It was Krissi’s leadership, tough questions and challenges that got our company to this point and better prepared to meet future challenges. She pushed me to define what I wanted to accomplish and how I was going to do it. She provided resources for me when I got “stuck”. I greatly value her strategic thinking, and her positive energetic strength. Krissi is a treat to work with, an inspiration to be with and a true contributor to Olivetree’s success.
Carol Shea

We feel exceptionally lucky to have found you. We chose you over many others because you set the bar so high – to then exceed these expectations has bowled us over. We’ve done really, really, well by you.
Ellis Watson

I’ve attended many sales seminars and coaching sessions with gurus of the field, but none have come close to the level of detail that Krissi provides. Krissi is extremely high energy and relates well to our fast paced environment. Her previous positions in management and similar sales roles allowed her to pull from a vast cabinet of knowledge. Her work ethic and drive to provide superior work were evident the first day she stepped foot in our office. I found Krissi to be an outstanding strategic partner in a mine field of changes.
Nathan Knipper

Building and starting up a billion dollar greenfield industrial facility is a stressful and risky process. The results are highly dependent on ability of people to communicate. Total goals alignment is a necessary condition for quick achievement of positive financial performance. Krissi Barr has provided an amazing boost to all sorts of communications in our company. Working with Krissi we were able to benefit on many fronts. Here is a list of services provided by her which made the biggest difference:

• Personal Coaching. Every member of the management team was able to learn a lot about themselves through a series of psychological tests and personal training performed by Krissi. Personal development plans helped structure the improvement efforts and allowed for quick positive adjustments in personal behavior and decision making.
• Team building. Pulling together a big group of talented and self reliant people from all over the country for the project was a challenge. But even bigger challenge was to make these people work as one highly effective team. We would not be able to achieve that as quickly without guidance and help of Krissi Barr.
• Goal setting and team alignment. Krissi played a dramatic role in helping the company to create the comprehensive set of company goals and targets. The goal setting method proposed by Krissi has become an effective tool to pass the company goals down to all the levels of the company. Krissi took a lead to start the process and then smoothly transferred the leadership back to the company.
• Personnel training. Our front men and women in sales team got a necessary boost through a series of professional training in customer relations provided by Krissi.

The greenfield project turned EBITDA positive in 6 months after start up of its primary operations. The role of Krissi Barr in achieving this goal was invaluable.
Mikhail Smirnov

Krissi Barr is an outstanding executive coach. Her combination of real life expertise and carefully studied theory are a perfect combination. She taught me to look at situations from many angles including the personal motivations of those involved, the stated and unstated business goals, the influence of culture, and the ability and willingness of the participants. Not only does she have a wealth of proven business tools and techniques at her disposal, she is extremely quick to share them and to teach the theories on why they work. Through the coaching I received in the areas of emotional intelligence from Krissi, I became a better boss, employee, and co-worker. Additionally I used these same skills to become a better person, spouse, father, and friend. I would highly recommend Krissi to assist in individual coaching, team development, and strategic planning – she produces a tangible ROI that is easily measured and appreciated.
Matt Scherocman



Krissi immediately impressed us with her unwavering enthusiasm and her ability to help us remove the many obstacles that were standing in the way of achieving our goals. Using performance assessments, team building exercises and training solutions - Krissi taught us how to communicate more effectively which allowed us to get the results we so desperately needed. Her dynamic ability to help you refocus your efforts is both refreshing and inspiring and allowed us to develop a business strategy and implement a definitive plan of action for success. We also learned invaluable management tools that provided us with knowledge we could carry with us on any future endeavors.
Debra Riley

Needless to say, there are many firms that provide strategic consulting services, but, based on my experience few can deliver the value demonstrated in performing the analysis, strategic suggestions, and practical recommendations generated by our relationship with Krissi Barr. Krissi’s ability to quickly understand our business and our specific needs was a fundamental success factor derived from the services she delivered. Additionally Krissi’s commitment to her clients and the ease of doing business with her firm insured that we had a sound basis to address our most challenging business decisions.
Vincent J. Gilday

The action plans you helped me and my team create have born some amazing fruit. We are all aligned against clear and quantifiable goals which Krissi helped us to articulate and hone. As well, many of the action items we established have already been achieved and in some cases over-achieved, thanks in no small part to your helping me to drive our group to higher heights. Thank you for helping me/us see through a forest of obstacles via your individual coaching and group alignment sessions so we could chart a path toward fully realizing some of these early and somewhat prickly aims. You helped us to see the forest through the tress and we are not all the happiest of lumberjacks.
Lori Wellinghoff

I wanted to communicate the impact Barr Corporate Success has had on the development of my team and indeed myself. Much of my Leadership training previously was academic and largely based on theory. Your program isolates specific areas that I can readily put into practice in this fast paced, competitive environment.
Keith Mills

Thank you for keeping us focused and driven to be the best we can be!
Lurline Lawrence



I have two questions for you Krissi. Why do you care about success? Why are you committed? I know you care and are committed, but I was wondering why? If there is any thing I want my people to know is that I care and am committed to their success. Thanks again for touching, impacting, influencing and just being a part of my life and career.
Rob Berger

Krissi – you have a way to boil the complex down to the simple and essential. You are in inspiration to me.
Debra Reyland

You are AWESOME!
Greg Menetrey

Krissi - I really appreciate your sincere efforts to assist our office in becoming more successful as individuals and as a group. Your insight into our organization is invaluable and you again have gone above and beyond to invest yourself into making us the best we can be. You continue to validate my decision to bring you on board as a trusted advisor.
Alan Piker

When the idea was first presented about bringing in a consultant to support our change efforts I was skeptical. Most consultants I have worked with spend all their time helping you create a great looking business plan or set of objectives. Problem is they then leave. Krissi Barr's proposal went much further. She laid out, in advance, a detailed process that would guide us through the development of our plan incorporating Team driven issues and ideas to coaching and helping us write a realistic plan to the all important implementation and follow-up process. This process included both Team and one on one follow-up/coaching sessions. The key here is the fact that she first taught us the process to allow us to be self-sufficient in the future and then walked us through the stages of initial planning to the final implementation and follow-up of our actual plan. I found this approach to be of great benefit to our senior executive team and the growth and success of our company.
Bruce Read