Christina Barr

Brain-based Individual and Team Coach, Facilitator, and Organizational Strategist in Denver, Co

Why work with me?

I understand how individuals and teams are wired and work under stress from being a leader in the trenches and my training. From this context, I help leaders and teams learn how we are shaped by our environment, past and present, influencing who we are and how we show up. How, when stressed, we feel exhausted and short-fused and have fewer resources to pull on. This triggers negative survival reactions in the brain and makes problems harder to solve. The challenge is that this negativity is viral – so it affects those around us – and it has a compounding impact on our relationships.

In working together, we identify the underlying survival forces at work and create a positive pathway to operating from a place of being grounded, centered, and clear-headed… and then making more powerful and effective choices for action. In our work together, I help you increase self-understanding to remove obstacles and create a more resilient and effective way to function individually and as a team.

One way that I work with you is building Mental Fitness

As part of our work, I offer an 8-week Bootcamp built on Positive Intelligence™ training. This work is grounded in research and integrates findings from neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science. The training helps participants identify and intercept the negative internal voices that arise out of our Survival patterns and shift to the more powerful Executive brain.

My weekly facilitation provides ongoing support and adds enhancements gained from years of experience.

In 8 weeks – if we accessed brain imaging equipment – you’d be able to discern the beginnings of changes to your brain wiring.

SQ1 Mental Bootcamp Flyer

My deep experience and practice help me give you my best

I draw on and integrate years of my hands-on leadership and practical experience with diverse cross-generational teams as a Group Vice President, VP of Operations, Chief People Officer, and more. I have worked in many business challenges, including mergers/cultural integrations and business turnarounds, entrepreneurial start-ups, and strategy development.

I have worked in a range of industries - construction and property management; professional services (advertising/ marketing, accounting, legal and financial); restaurants; consumer product goods. Those companies range in size from start-up to global Fortune 100 companies.

  • Work
    • Square One Solutions, Inc
  • Education
    • MA Org Develpmnt - Fielding Graduate Institute
    • Certified Integral Coach(TM) - New Ventures West
    • PQ Coach(TM) - Positive Intelligence
    • authorized - Leadership Development Profile
    • licensed from Harvard - Immunities to Change
What clients say about me
The Mental Fitness program was worth every minute of my time. This is one of the most impactful coaching programs I've taken."
~ Executive Director
I worked with Christina through the PQ Bootcamp, and the impacts on my work and personal life have been substantial. At first, you're not really sure how PQ is affecting you. Slowly, subtle changes begin to emerge that continue to reinforce the program. Changes for me were a more positive outlook to almost every situation, and the ability to take a beat and switch from my lightning-fast judge reflex to a more positive response. Before PQ, I would have likely taken a more negative approach.
~ CEO, Tech start-up
I appreciate your grounded presence and ability to create an environment where stress, ambiguity, and disconnect dissolves.
~ Common feedback given to Christina
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