Dr. Barbara Moses

Fast Company magazine called her a "career guru." Dr. Barbara Moses, president of BBM Human Resource Consultants, is the international best-selling author of Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth about Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life, What Next?- Find the Work that's Right for You and Career Intelligence, and a popular Globe and Mail work issues columnist and sought-after speaker. She was recently selected as one of More magazine's "Top Forty Women Over 40."

Barbara's innovative approach to managing work and life has been reported on extensively across North America. She was featured in the recent book The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching as a "thought leader in life coaching" and has been quoted and profiled in major North American publications including Fast Company magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune and Elle. She has appeared frequently on network and local TV and radio, including the Today Show, the CBS Early Show, NPR, MSNBC and Canada AM.

Barbara is the designer of Career Advisor, the powerful on-line career management tool that has been hailed as "the ultimate career resource" and as "like having a personal coach on your computer." Her career planning programs have been completed by over a million worldwide.

Through her career management tools, workshops, and speeches Barbara has counselled people in over 2000 organizations from all walks of life and of all ages throughout her career. She knows what they need to feel happy and engaged, and the challenges they sometimes struggle with.

A frequent presenter and keynote speaker for senior business and professional audiences, Barbara is consistently praised for her practical insights into new work and personal realities, her stimulating and compelling delivery, and her tell-it-like-it-is style.

Barbara holds degrees in psychology from McGill University, The London School of Economics and the University of Toronto.

Barbara Moses' Blog Entries:

Oh Why The Outcry About Generation Y?

• Career Intelligence for Women

  Target audience: women at all levels who are grappling with such common issues as how to express their authentic self in your work; how to manage their career and life with grace; how to overcome typical barriers; and, how to find, create or design the right work. Selected points previously described are incorporated.

• How to Attract, Retain & Manage the New Worker

  Target audience: executives, managers, human resource professionals.

  • Key work trends that impact the lives and employability of today's worker.
    
  • Managing complicated, over-committed lives.
    
  • Managing an intergenerational work force.
    
  • The psychology of the new worker -- Who is she? What is he looking for?
    
  • Eight kinds of new worker, and what motivates them:
    Sociability seekers; Career builders; Authenticity seekers; Personal developers; Autonomy seekers/entrepreneurs; Novelty seekers; Stability seekers; Lifestylers
    
  • What are the implications for rewards?
    
  • How to shape strategies for attracting, rewarding and retaining based on motivation typology.
    
  • Principles for optimizing career management and satisfaction.
    
  • How to create a life-friendly organization
    

• How to Manage an Intergenerational Work Force

  Target audience: managers, executives and HR professionals. Never before have there been so many conflicting values and expectations operating together. Do twenty-somethings perplex you or drive you nuts? Understand the values and expectations of twenty-somethings, thirty-somethings, forty-somethings and beyond. Typical points of collision and how to respond. How to create work forces that promote intergenerational harmony.

• What Next? Applying Career Intelligence in a Tough Work World

  Target audience: individuals at all levels -- individual contributors, managers, executives, HR professionals -- to enhance career development, renewal and satisfaction.
  
  Welcome to Tempworld, a tough work world with unremitting pressures on the individual. In this session, Dr. Barbara Moses shares her latest insights into the new work landscape and implications for individual effectiveness. She reveals the most important work trends, how our motivational type will affect best career choices and the new principles and rules for career success. Why? Expressing our authentic self in work is the most important imperative for all of us.
  
  

  • The most important trends that will affect your working life
    
  • Understand what motivates you -- 8 motivational types:
    Sociability seekers; Career builders; Authenticity seekers; Personal developers; Autonomy seekers/entrepreneurs; Novelty seekers; Stability seekers; Lifestylers
    
  • Work/life balance -- it's a question of focus.
    
  • How to become a career activist and express your authentic self at work
    
  • Myths & realities about career success.
    
  • 12 new strategies for career success.
    
  • How to career-proof your children.

• Work Life Balance -- It's a Question of Focus

  Target audience: individuals grappling with over-committed lives and/or leaders who need to respond effectively to the over-committed lives of staff.

  • Squished, squashed, sliced and diced -- welcome to the new workscape.
    
  • Forget "balance" -- focus is the key.
    
  • You can have it all -- but not all at once -- think life "chapters."
    
  • Be a career activist -- be reflective, know what's most important to you.
    
  • Strategies for enhancing life satisfaction.
    
  • Alternative work arrangements: Does your job lend itself to them? -- do you have what it takes?
    
  • How leaders can create life-friendly organizations.
    
  • How to career-proof your children

• “Enlightening, insightful, compassionate, thought-provoking, humorous. Painting a realistic picture of the challenges facing us in today's world of work, Barbara ultimately provides us with hope.”
  Toronto-Dominion Bank
• “Dr. Moses explains, in simple and innovative terms, that today's work force consists of several generational groups which are motivated differently. Dr. Moses provides insightful new approaches to motivate the younger work force to reach its potential.”
  PriceWaterhouse Coopers
• “She is a dynamic speaker who addresses the issues that are most pressing, both in work and in life.”
  Crown Life

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