Roy immediately set the perfect tone for the conference…
—Julie Kang, Partner, The Gallup Organization
ABOUT ROY BARNES
The Roy Barnes Experience
The most effective interactions are personal conversations between an experienced voice and your team. They're discussions that provoke fresh thought, inspire possibility and release untapped passion from the best performers. The Roy Barnes Experience is just that: a synthesis of learning styles and information that inspires accelerated performance. By mining your organization’s unique challenges, Roy discovers valuable opportunities and presents a usable, learnable methodology enabling teams to move forward together.
And he does it unlike any other speaker.
Roy Barnes presents leading success principles in a digestible manner. He's highly interactive—physically as well as verbally and visually—which addresses the variety of ways people learn, absorb and disseminate new information. He makes sure you get it, because new perspectives cannot affect change if they're forgotten or improperly implemented. He makes sure your audience gets it, realizing that we're all made of the same basic stuff, and we're all in this together. Roy helps you access motivation that lasts and opens doors previously thought closed or unavailable.
How does he do it? Experience. Roy capitalizes on his extensive corporate and non-profit experience of working with people—specifically how they think, act and react within an established structure and process. Whether the high ranks of the executive team or the cube world of sales and customer support, he's touched it. He's seen his principles implemented with success, and modified them when necessary to evolve an organization's vision.
Roy Barnes touches hearts, and in so doing, shifts people—and people shift organizations. This effective, symbiotic approach to providing leadership insights is embedded in the understanding that anything is possible.
What's possible for you?
The Roy Barnes Difference
Roy is often asked how his approach differs from that of large consulting firms. First and foremost, Roy serves you as an individual. Designing and executing great customer experiences is a passion of his…and he puts his whole heart into the engagement. He translates his expertise to you, your team and the particular challenges facing your customer interactions. There is no canned answer, no drop-in solution that will work. Experience design is personal.
Roy asks the difficult questions. He probes to uncover the process flaws irritating your customers and works to find the changes necessary that immediately improve your customer's experience. To fulfill that goal, he keeps abreast of best-practices, key technologies, industry events and market dynamics. He stays in touch with customer experience thought-leaders and sifts through the most innovative thinking for actionable best-practices for you.
Roy's Credentialed Success
Roy Barnes has more than 25 years of experience leading work teams and delivering world-class results in both the profit and non-profit sectors. As Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning and later as Senior Vice President for Customer Experience Development, Roy managed the introduction and execution of process and strategy management tools which focused Marriott Vacation Club on building a sustainable operating and strategic infrastructure.
In the non-profit sector, Roy helped several of the nation's oldest conservation organizations with operation and development strategic planning, leadership team alignment and goal-setting.
During his multi-discipline career, Roy worked directly with many of the leading business authorities including: Martha Rogers (Customer Relationship Management), Michael Hammer (Process Re-Engineering), Daryl Conner (Change Management), James Gilmore (Customer Experience Design), Robert Kaplan and David Norton (Balanced Scorecard) and C.K. Prahalad (Strategic Organizational Design).
Roy Barnes has experienced it all as he worked his way up through the ranks. Starting as a front desk manager, he led his hotel to the highest guest satisfaction scores in the Marriott system worldwide for two years in a row. Years later, as a member of Marriott Vacation Club International’s (MVCI) Executive Team, Roy spearheaded the customer-focused strategic reorganization and business process redesign effort that helped MVCI achieve an exponential revenue increase from $400 million to over $2.8 billion over eight years.
In addition to being a member of the National Speakers Association (Central Florida) International Speakers Bureau, Roy holds a Certification of Process Mastery (Hammer Group), a fellowship with the American Strategic Management Institute and is a member of the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame. Roy regularly collaborates with other leading customer focused organizations including Mindshare, LRA, The Palladium Group, Executive Strategy Manager and CorVu.
Roy continued post-graduate study at Villanova University, (Six Sigmax Certification) and the University of Maryland—College Park. He earned his BA in History and Environmental Science at Grinnell College. He lives in Orlando, Florida.