Barry Wishner

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About Barry Wishner

Barry Wishner is a business consultant, speaker and writer who serves as an advisor and confidante to business leaders. His famous study and legendary, personal in-depth interviews of 350 Fortune 500 CEOs and high-powered business leaders, news-making entrepreneurs, and ground breaking innovators reveals What The World's Smartest Leaders Do Differently to not only to embrace questions that position their organizations to thrive in a changing economy. His ongoing research studies include: 1) What Works In The Real World? and other Private Questions from Exceptional Leaders, 2) Inside The Minds Of Remarkable CEOs; 3) How Smart Leaders Use Innovation and Imagination To Differentiate Their Company; 4) Straight Talk And Insights From The Executive Assistants To Fortune 500 CEOs; and a 5) Global CEO Study of Timeless Leadership Styles. Barry has been an innovator in the business world for over 30 years, a cutting edge entrepreneur who likes nothing better than creating and running unique companies. After working as an executive for large organizations like Saga and Marriott, he pursued the American Dream and started his own business, ProFormance, a management consulting firm with over $50 million in revenues. His company owned and operated a variety of businesses including management consulting for the healthcare industry, an innovative and award-winning 250-seat restaurant in Santa Monica, California and designing, building and operating retirement communities in California and Nevada. Barry is a nationally known speaker whose roster of clients is the "best of the best." He has been called the Commentator on Corporate Life who takes complex ideas and distills them into everyday language.Audiences have praised him with quotes like "Barry has the passion of Tom Peters (In Search Of Excellence) and the content of Jim Collins (Good To Great)." Barry resides in Woodside, California with his wife Barbara.