BARBARA BROWN

About Barbara

In a world where 'leadership skills' are often wildly overstated, Barbara is a truly committed and totally natural proponent of the art. She brings 30+ years of experience from the Financial Services sector, at The Royal Bank of Scotland, RBS Invoice Finance and Ulster Bank. In a number of Regional Managing Director roles, she led diverse teams, working with stakeholders to achieve excellent outcomes for clients. Barbara is often sought as the voice of reason in contentious debates, never afraid to challenge in her own inimitable style she brings a calmness and balance to the table that allows solutions to be found more readily.

Client Testimonial

"Barbara is approachable, professional, and a joy to work with. She has a knack of asking powerful questions that really get you thinking. Her background in financial services, and the leadership and coaching skills she displays, meant that she quickly understood our business and what we were looking to achieve out of our session." — Stuart Robb, Partner, FRP Advisory Trading Limited

Expertise & Approach

• A lifetime of experience in dealing with businesses from one-man operations to multimillion corporates, with a sharp sense of unlocking business growth and well executed strategy
• Works across multiple sectors supporting business leaders transform the growth potential in their organization
• Designs and delivers high impact leadership development programmes and facilitates board sessions focussed on strategic planning
• Sought for high impact coaching and mentoring engagements
• Expertise in Sales Management brings credible interventions and solutions for her clients
• Skilled in bringing clarity to complex scenarios, helping clients get to the core of an issue
• Especially enjoys facilitating large events and extends this to hosting high profile charity fund raising dinners

Career Highlights

• Regional Managing Director at RBS Invoice Finance
• Head of Corporate and Corporate – Scotland, RBS Invoice Finance
• Board Trustee at Breast Cancer Now
• A Positive Momentum partner since 2018

Community & Personal Interests

• Plays an active role in supporting the great work of Young Enterprise, Scottish Edge and Strathclyde University in building the skills for the next generation of business leaders
• Afraid of heights but managed to forget this with a couple of tandem sky dives to increase the impact of the fund raising for Breast Cancer Now
• In her spare time she's found loudly supporting her niece at dancing competitions and exhausting herself with new routines at the gym