Barika Porter has a passion for helping individuals and businesses bloom successfully. Mrs. Porter, a professional coach, specializes in helping people uncover and develop action plans to support their organizational and individual goals. Having worked with executives throughout her career she has the unique ability to understand the tactical challenges facing senior leaders. Her coaching style allows her to serve as a trusted adviser. She is able to quickly establish trust and help leaders move away from seeing only organizational limitations and deficiencies and towards visions complete with possibility and solutions. With Barika’s coaching and support, impediments between the organization or individual, and their goals seem to melt away.
Barika finds the greatest joy when she successfully communicates the opportunities present within challenging situations. She loves to help individuals think strategically about how to thrive and bloom within their circumstances, she considers that to be the ultimate success. Barika specializes in encouraging and providing practical strategies for improving interpersonal relationships which enables companies to reduce turnover, increase productivity and increase innovation.
She has over 18 years of experience as a management consultant in both the private and public sectors. Her corporate knowledge and experience allows her to bring technical expertise to managing, people, process and systems. She has a passion for helping people and businesses identify opportunities for improvement and growth. Barika holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her husband and three daughters.