Barbara Hauser

Barbara Hauser is a Linkage Affiliate Consultant. She has dedicated her career to helping global leaders achieve growth in their business objectives. Barbara’s coaching and facilitation work is best characterized by her entrepreneurial spirit and disciplined approach to learning. The experience that grounds her interventions in real-world business issues has been culled from a wide range of client engagements in multiple industries within both the US and Latin America.

Barbara has in-depth experience working in Latin American business settings and cultures, having lived and worked there for over three decades. She delivers training and coaching in both English and Spanish. Barbara leverages her polished bilingual presentation and persuasion skills to implement significant change initiatives for Fortune 500 companies, including industries as diverse as hospitality, energy, pharma, consumer products, insurance and telecommunications. Her areas of expertise include conflict management, complex sales and business development, communication, leadership team alignment and leadership development.

Barbara has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa and a Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instructional Design from Virginia Tech University. She is certified in Helping Clients Succeed (v.2.0), The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, The Four Roles of Leadership (Franklin Covey), ACE Selling and Creating the High Performance Sales Environment (Adventace), and Influencer: The Power to Change Anything; and is a Certified Master Trainer of Crucial Conversations and Crucial Accountability (Vital Smarts), a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation, and a Cultivating Excellence in Organizations senior certified practitioner.

Barbara is a member of the Weston Council of the Greater Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Directors of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce of the US. She is also a past president of the American Venezuelan Friendship Association. Barbara speaks English and Spanish, and has a working knowledge of German.