Barbara Collins
Ed.D
PA, USAs founder and president of Positive Trends, Inc., Barbara has over 25 years of experience as a professional speaker, professor, author and corporate executive. Her signature presentation and book entitled It’s Your Turn: Find Your Authentic Self and Go Fetch It! helps people manage midlife transformation and discover their authentic self.
She shares “funtastic” tips to discover natural strengths, engages her audiences in an energetic and heartwarming approach to self discovery and reveals the benefits of living an authentic midlife. Barbara has a passion for helping people discover what comes easy to create an authentic second or third career. She loves to take people on a journey to find ways to increase income using natural strengths.
Barbara is an adjunct faculty professor in a college in Pennsylvania where she teaches leadership in a master’s degree program. She uses her corporate experience to help students become authentic leaders. Her popular workshop “Discovering Your Authentic Leadership Style” for corporate executives transforms leadership skills to a new level of high performance.
People gravitate to Barbara’s energy in the room. She engages her audiences with humor, her wonderful ability to feel she is talking directly to you. Barbara received her Ed.D at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, in adult-learning based Psycho Educational Processes Dept. (psychology of small group behavior), specializing in Training & Development and Organizational Development and her M.S degree in Counseling Psychology at Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Barbara has written numerous articles for her newsletter and magazine publications.
Barbara is certified in Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and Advanced MBTI-Mid Life Development. She is also a member of the National Speakers Association. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and The Society Inc. (an organization that promotes youth in the arts).
As founder and president of Positive Trends, Inc., Barbara has over 25 years of experience as a professional speaker, professor, author and corporate executive. Her signature presentation and book entitled It’s Your Turn: Find Your Authentic Self and Go Fetch It! helps people manage midlife transformation and discover their authentic self.
She shares “funtastic” tips to discover natural strengths, engages her audiences in an energetic and heartwarming approach to self discovery and reveals the benefits of living an authentic midlife. Barbara has a passion for helping people discover what comes easy to create an authentic second or third career. She loves to take people on a journey to find ways to increase income using natural strengths.
Barbara is an adjunct faculty professor in a college in Pennsylvania where she teaches leadership in a master’s degree program. She uses her corporate experience to help students become authentic leaders. Her popular workshop “Discovering Your Authentic Leadership Style” for corporate executives transforms leadership skills to a new level of high performance.
People gravitate to Barbara’s energy in the room. She engages her audiences with humor, her wonderful ability to feel she is talking directly to you. Barbara received her Ed.D at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, in adult-learning based Psycho Educational Processes Dept. (psychology of small group behavior), specializing in Training & Development and Organizational Development and her M.S degree in Counseling Psychology at Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Barbara has written numerous articles for her newsletter and magazine publications.
Barbara is certified in Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and Advanced MBTI-Mid Life Development. She is also a member of the National Speakers Association. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and The Society Inc. (an organization that promotes youth in the arts).
It's Your Turn: Find Your Authentic Self and Go Fetch It!
Barbara’s presentation challenges people to overcome insecurities and discover hidden talents and gifts. With expert guidance in authentic career planning, she helps participants discover their true selves and create a plan for career success.
Utilizing a relaxed environment and her warm and energetic personality, she incorporates the idea of Sankofa to help participants look into their past and find the talents they hold today. Sankofa, from the Akan language, means one...
Valuing Differences in the Workplace
Valuing Differences
An iceberg visually communicates how a dialogue across difference can be implemented with a sense of friendliness, curiosity and openness.
Many organizations are still trying to figure out how to help employees respect and value each other in the workplace. Why is this premise of valuing differences so hard to implement? Valuing...
You're More Than You Think You Are.....Really!!!!
Sankofa, from the Akan (Ghanaian) language, means one must return to the past in order to move forward. Barbara Collins guides her participants through a self-exploratory journey using Sankofa to discover authentic hidden talents and strengths.
Sheis known for encouraging people to own and acknowledge their natural gifts and talents. In this heartwarming and energizing seminar participants will receive a gift of self- identity. Motivating her audiences with both her...
Discover Your Authentic Leadership Style
If no one is following you – you are not leading - People are motivated to follow a leader who leads with a sense of knowingness.
This workshop helps people identify – core values, core beliefs and life principles. A successful authentic leader engages in self awareness to discover unique qualities that influence people to follow....
Power in Midlife and Beyond: 14 Ways to Create An Authentic Life
She has over 30 years of experience as a professional speaker, professor, author, and corporate executive. Using her own life experiences. Her signature presentations are based on two...
