Dr. Barbara Weaver Smith, founder and president of The Whale Hunters®,
has an exceptional leadership background that began in higher education
and successfully transitioned to entrepreneurship.
Barbara has authored a whole Whale Hunters Wisdom series - The Mind of a
Hunter, The Hunt and the Whale Hunting Culture. Don't miss this
provocative discussion about how to transform your sales efforts to land
the big one.
Career highlights include serving as a dean at Ball
State University, president of the Indiana Humanities Council, and
founder of two thriving companies. She is known for inspiring,
initiating, and managing accelerated change through an uncanny ability
to understand “how things work” in diverse organizations. Dr. Smith has
led more than 50 complex collaborations involving business, government,
higher education, and not-for-profits. These partnerships created new
ventures in economic development, education, and regional planning that
resulted in millions of dollars in private and public investment.
Through that work, Dr. Smith perfected a transformational, collaborative
process that dramatically accelerates an organization’s growth
trajectory.
Barbara's Website is: http://www.thewhalehunters.com/