Jean Barr - Founder
Jean is honored to be recognized as the Sales Training CEO of the Year 2024 in New Zealand by APAC Insider.
She is dedicated to championing productivity, performance, and profit for sales professionals and companies. With over 38 years of experience, she has trained and coached thousands of individuals and teams globally, focusing on the 'inner game of sales' to drive success.
🌟 Jean’s expertise lies in the mindset mastery behind the psychology and neuroscience of sales, bringing simplicity to complexity and emphasizing empowering conversations over the hard sell. Through my workshops, she has achieved a proven success rate of increasing sales by over 30% for more than three decades.
🔑 The key to improving productivity, performance, and profit lies in developing both hard and soft skills, a philosophy Jean has successfully implemented throughout her career. Her goal is to make sales exhilarating, fulfilling, and rewarding by building proficiency in key EQ areas, and keeping focused on sales metrics.
🤝 Attending my training will equip you with the psychology of sales and leadership, boosting your confidence in the sales process, enhancing relationships with clients, and empowering you to exceed targets and budgets. Let's transform sales into a seamless and rewarding experience together!
Jean has an MBA, Business Management Dip, Sales Dips, Marketing Dip, Adult Education Dip, and Governance Certificate.
Jean is an expert in the mindset mastery behind the psychology and neuroscience of sales.
She has trained and coached 1000’s of individuals and teams locally, nationally, and internationally over the last 38 years. She brings simplicity to complexity and believes sales is not about HARD SELL, it’s about empowering conversations that elicit emotional connection SO pivotal to closing the sale.
Jean has led sales training and workshops with a proven success rate of increasing sales by over 30% for over 3 decades and knows that companies want the reassurance of working with a leading sales training company.
Her key point of difference is focussing on the ‘inner game of sales. To improve productivity, performance, and thereby profit in a business, one needs to not only look at the linear hard skills but also the nonlinear soft skills, and interweave the two.
Jean has seen firsthand the pain that comes with a lack of performance in the sales arena. She believes that sales does not have to be hard, it can be exhilarating, fulfilling, and rewarding if proficiency is built-in key EQ area eg Maintaining your CRM, doing your homework on clients.
Jean has extensive Governance experience, Past Chair of Governance New Zealand Canterbury Branch, Past President of Young Women’s Christian Association Canterbury Branch, Past Vice President of the YWCA National, Past Independent Director of Endurance and Past Independent Director of Latin America New Zealand Business Council.
In her spare time, she volunteered for Victim Support and currently volunteers for her local Fire Brigade.
What you will achieve as a result of attending the training, is the psychology of sales and leadership, which will give you confidence around the sales process, increased sales, build trust and better relationships with clients, and the ability to achieve and exceed targets and budgets.