Enterprise
Innovation
Resilience
Overcoming adversity
Barry is a specialist in training people how to sell themselves professionally, or at job interview. He has a passion for helping young people to develop their employability skills, as well as helping schools and businesses to develop their relationships with one another.
Also qualified as a Personality Profiler, Barry has trained under Dr.Robert Rohm, whom he considers to be the best in the world on this subject.
Barry is an active member of Toastmasters’ International Speakers’ Club and the Professional Speaking Association.
He has won awards for excellence from Gloucestershire and Worcestershire Education Business Partnerships for his contributions to education and has submitted a report entitled “The Employability of Young People” to the Secretary of State for Education.
Q: If you weren’t a speaker, what do you think you’d be?
I’ve always had a big mouth. Boy could I talk, even before I became a speaker. I’ve learned how to do in in a constructive way that’s all.
Q: What was your favourite subject in school and why?
Biology. From the moment I was born, I’ve had a sense of wonder about living things.
Q: If you could change one thing you did as a young person, what would it be?
I was the most pompous, self-opinionated, obnoxious git on the planet and I wondered why no-one liked me. Things got a whole lot better when started being nice to people. It’s not what would I change. I did and it made all the difference.
British Values covered
- Rule of law
- Mutual respect
- Democracy
- Individual liberty
- Tolerance of those with different faiths or beliefs