Barry Lewis Green

Differences makes a difference... at work, school or beyond. Move forward together, stronger... with The Unity Guy™.

BARRY LEWIS GREEN is The Unity Guy™...

Diversity leadership.  Difference makes a difference. You have a mission; a job to do. You have diversity of values, attitudes and behaviours. You have diversity of thought, opinion and temperament. You have diversity of character. It is your strength. It is your success; if you seize its power. The Unity Guy™ can help.

Barry Lewis Green is The Unity Guy™. Through consulting, coaching, speaking, training, facilitating, writing, cartooning, music and dance, he rocks (and we mean rocks) his work with youth and adults, organizations, campuses, companies and communities building the kind of leadership and unity that fiercely believes united we stand, and deliver. Through music, message and more, Barry brings it and brings us all together to advance extraordinary success. His expertise is diversity and collective leadership with particular attention on community capacity building at work, school and beyond. He is a professional business educator in organizational behavior and strategic management, a Certified Master Facilitator with the global Virtues Project™ and a Certified Facilitator for Personality Dimensions®. He is a rocker, cartoonist, dancer and writer, bringing people together with his work and play.

Barry believes it is our commonalities and differences upon which we build amazing unity that strengthens and creates excellence, and success.   He has done this work in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors in operations as diverse as transportation, education, public service, professional services, industrial management, financial services, community service, youth engagement, and more.

A WIDE RANGE OF SOLUTIONS...

Barry is about getting things heard, said and done. His engaging approach to diversity, collective leadership and strategic unity building can be found in a growing body of work including but not limited to:

SMASH Leadership™ Lead united, live and work the dream; and get the results. SMASH Leadership™ is about construction; about smashing through, not smashing up. It is for leaders intent on inspiring. It is about strategic leadership, with heart. It is all about fostering collective leadership, focusing our attention and energies on 5 key elements... spirit, mission, action, success, and happiness... as core components of authentic leadership that unites and moves us forward together, stronger. This is the approach to leadership that says "we are the message" and practices "modeling" the path forward to inspire substantial results.

MESH Management™  Move forward together, ever stronger; with results. MESH Management™ is about just that; meshing. It is for frontline and collective leadership, fostering a culture where everyone counts, everyone leads. It is for frontline leaders intent on moving the organization in the direction of the vision. It is all about fostering collective leadership, focusing our attention and energies on 4 key elements... meaning, execution, success, and happiness... as core components of real world leadership that unites and moves us forward together, stronger. This is the approach to leadership that says "we are in this together" and practices "being" and "doing" as forces of authentic power to achieve results.

lightHOUSE Learnership™  Build on passion, purpose, and peace at school. lightHOUSE Learnership™ is about the nobility, creativity and purposefulness of education. It is for learners and educators intent on inspiring and being inspired. It is all about fostering collective leadership in education, focusing our attention and energies on 5 key elements... legacy, intent, growth, honor, and talent.  lightHOUSE Learnership™ is for students and teachers alike. It addresses bullying and peaceful schools in a way that moves beyond prevention to a new and cool way to "why." It is really about connecting passion with purpose to create real prosperity. It engages education in a quest to serve the advancement of communities by looking at how education can be the force for change and success.

The diverseCITY Alliance™  Diversity is the difference. Barry partners with people performance and human resource experts in employment equity and diversity development. Through building capacity, engaging employment equity, advancing respectful workplaces, and recruiting and selecting for powerfully diverse workplaces, this strategic HR development team can effectively move you and your team to a place of not only tolerance and acceptance but optimization; making the very most and best of diversity at work and school... and fostering real competitive advantage. That is strength. This is human resource management with a difference, because it is all about difference... as strength. This strategic team can make the difference through difference. Now that is different.

The Virtues Project™  As a Certified Master Facilitator with The Virtues Project™, Barry works to develop leaders on campuses, in companies and throughout communities; leaders who are effectively trained to bring the character leadership work of The Virtues Project™ to the front lines and executive levels in education, community service, business and beyond. This is material that goes deeper but in amazingly purposeful, powerful and productive ways... drawing out our best, in practice. This is constructively revolutionary material.

Personality Dimensions®  As a Certified Personality Dimensions® Facilitator, Barry applies this work within the context of collective leadership and unity building, fostering knowledge and conversation around our differences and commonalities and how they are both strengths on campus, in companies, and throughout communities. This is powerful stuff; and can revolutionize the team and its work with customers, stakeholders and beyond.

The capaCITIES™ Course of Action  The capaCITIES Course™ is a body of work, including keynotes, seminars, workshops, courses and programs designed and intended to build character leadership in our schools, workplaces, communities and beyond.  It is about collective leadership and strategic unity, in constructive action over the long haul and run; and making the world, and our corner of it, a better place to work, learn and live.  First developed and introduced in Newfoundland and Labrador in 2009, it was founded on the need for recognizing, celebrating, and using our true wealth... that of our individual and collective capacities... in creating thriving communities, campuses, and conscious companies... and beyond. Bottom line, we provide powerful programming to bring your community at school, work or the greater community together to define its culture, character and competitive advantage in a world that is increasingly in need of communities of vision, integrity, and confidence.

Coaching and Consulting  Be a leader who unites and strengthens. Barry Lewis Green offers coaching and consultative services around collective and character leadership and community capacity building. As a professional consultant, he will sit with you and explore the questions around current and desired outcomes through a 4 step process he calls As the CROW Flies™ and assist in crafting a path forward for you, your campus, your company or community. As a leadership coach, he will work with you on leadership style and content. It can be live, face-to-face, on site, online or using various low and high tech media. The emphasis is on values, attitudes, and behaviors, and how we move and manage each for optimal results. 

Barry also offers very special messages around Alzheimer Disease and service leadership, LIFE/work purpose, and one amazing conference package; all centering around diversity and unity.

The content is rich, the delivery is fun.  Barry draws us together. He gets us in a room and connecting in cool, real ways that get results.  Barry has fun celebrating and championing unity. He does so as a tornado and gentle breeze, all in one.  Barry's approach is broad and deep. He connects; and he creates conversations of substance.

SOME CLIENTS...

• Government of Newfoundland Labrador
• NL Housing Corporation
• Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
• Canada Business Development Corporation
• Canada Revenue Agency
• The Canadian Payroll Association
• Eastern Health
• New Professionals Network, Manitoba
• Business Development Bank of Canada
• Noble Drilling
• Crosbie Group of Companies
• Puglisevich
• Provincial Airlines
• College of the North Atlantic
• Mount Saint Vincent University
• New Brunswick Community College
• Keyin College
• Vibrant Communities
• Community Youth Network
• Communities in Schools

Barry has a special talent for observation and engagement. He brings a truly-one-of-a-kind bounty of energy and expertise to some crucial questions.

• How and what is the spirit of your enterprise?
• How amazingly diverse are the talents and perspectives?
• How aligned are the actions of your team with your purpose, meaning and mission?
• What is your commonly understood, sustainable, empowering definition of success?
• What is the level of joyfulness within your team?
• How strong a culture of genuine service shows itself in your work?

Be warned about Barry. He pulls no punches but his gloves seem to be well received. So... if you have all of the parts but feel there is still a distance to go in bringing the magic and the purpose to what you do and how you do it, Barry can make the difference; and the difference makes the difference.  That's the unity he is talking about! Lead united, and live the dream. Get connected with Barry today.

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