Professional Development Conference Speaker: Barry Long
The ICSEW will be publishing biographies and session descriptions of our Professional Development Conference presenters in the weeks leading up to the Aug. 27 conference. To register, please visit EventBrite.
The Power of the Team
Asking for help and receiving help is unbelievably difficult for most. However, this is a leader’s key to creating a successful team.
In this session, we will discuss examples of how different types of leaders use help in different ways, and how knowing your leadership style can help you become a more efficient leader. Barry utilizes amazing stories and a very keen sense of humor to illuminate this powerful message.
About Barry Long
For more than 20 years, Barry Long has traveled all over the world making hundreds of presentations to organizations, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies. He inspires audiences to strive for greater levels of accomplishment by setting goals that lead to success.
Barry provides marketing consulting services to several midsize and start-up companies, and has been a trainer for Microsoft. From Barry’s earliest years, he’s been an extreme sports freak and intrepid explorer of any new adventure.
At 22, a near-fatal motorcycle crash completely and permanently altered almost everything he knew about life. The accident resulted in destroying his spinal cord and breaking his back in ten places. With the understanding that he would never walk again, he started life over through unconditional determination, positive personal energy, and a great sense of humor. Barry discovered early in recovery that choosing to live with a genuinely positive attitude, setting realistic and achievable goals and learning to ask for help makes anything possible.
Barry currently lives near Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Emily, and two children. He loves staying active in any way he can. He’s involved in competitive wheelchair sports, which takes his unbridled enthusiasm for life to new heights– which he often shares with audiences. He’s an avid participant in extreme sports like snow skiing, water skiing, road racing, wheelchair biking, and skydiving. Barry even set a world bungee jumping record while in New Zealand! He’s been featured on the Discovery Channel, the Canadian CBC Sports Channel, and can be seen in advertising campaigns for AT&T, Boeing, Magic Wheels and Medicare.