Testimonials

What People Say

Through the years, we have worked with numerous talented people on a variety of interesting and challenging strategic initiatives. With every engagement, customer satisfaction is, and always has been, our most critical priority.

However, we believe there's nothing more persuasive than reading what actual customers and colleagues think, so we pulled together a selection of quotes about their experiences working with Barbara Alevras.

"Barbara is results-oriented and strategic-minded. She consistently delivers structured and thoughtful performance analyses. She can synthesize data from multiple sources into succinct, easy-to-understand reports and can always be relied upon to provide valuable, well thought out feedback…. A pleasure to work with."

~Denise R, Director Training, Development and Communication, Non-Profit

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"Barbara's finely honed communication skills, partnered with her political sensitivity, enabled her to serve as an extremely effective consensus builder and problem-solver. She successfully brought cross-functional and vertical staffs with conflicting views together to ensure that resources were appropriately allocated when a new opportunity aligned with the corporation's strategic goals. While galvanizing business review and project teams to work together towards a common goal, Barbara's expertise as a talented leader was obvious."

~Laurie R, Proposal Center Manager, Information Technology Consulting Company

"Barbara was contracted by me for three different roles supporting a not-for-profit: project manager, trainer, and strategy execution support…. In all roles, Barbara was able to establish effective relationships with both volunteers and staff…. I cannot recommend Barbara highly enough, and I look forward to our next partnership."

~Susan Z, Executive Director, Non-Profit Organization

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"Barbara's commitment to quality and customer satisfaction, combined with her ability to communicate with all levels of staff and management, made her an invaluable contributor. She developed innovative solutions to customer and staff issues using technology as well as strategic and creative problem-solving skills…. I feel confident recommending Barbara for any engagement that would use her marketing, project management, financial services, and customer relationship skills."

~Anthony G, Senior Vice President, Sales, Financial Services Company

"Barbara Alevras is a premier project facilitator. Barbara supported our organization's efforts to develop and execute large and complex project plans for important new business endeavors operating in four states with diversely unique markets and "political" challenges. Barbara excelled in relationship management and proved superior in keeping our projects on time and on budget. Barbara's business skills provided a great benefit to our organization, while her approach and personality presented me with a wonderful collaborator."

~Megan B, Director of Marketing & Extension, Non-Profit Organization

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"Barbara was introduced into a difficult environment in which she had to reinstate a complex proprietary corporate review process and all associated disciplines. She had to redevelop structured controls lacking for more than a year among a variety of senior sales, delivery and management personnel…. Barbara frequently worked with personnel who resisted authority and resented corporate oversight, however, her low-key approach, partnered with excellent written and oral communication skills, contributed to a very productive team environment."

~Harry G, Controller, Information Technology Consulting Company

"Barbara is very strategic, analytical, and a creative problem solver. I could always count on her to challenge the board to think beyond the traditional solutions and come up with innovative results-oriented solutions. Barbara has an amazing leadership style that empowers others and builds a strong sense of collaboration. It is always a pleasure to work with Barbara."

~Crista V, President, International Executive Board, Non-Profit Organization

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"Barbara Alevras led me and my colleagues through an intensive day-long workshop…. The information provided to us was clear, appropriate to our needs, and allowed each of us to walk away with templates necessary to create documents appropriate for the work we needed to accomplish. Her teaching style was very relaxed and she allowed each of us to ask questions when they arose…. I left feeling as though I understood exactly what I needed to do. I would highly recommend Barbara to any company."

~Cindy E, Workshop Participant, Non-Profit Organization

"I was invited to join Barbara's [Mastermind] group and was quickly guided to set goals, hit milestones, and get into positive action. Barbara kept us on task and accountable to ourselves, each other, and to the group as a whole. She is part charmer, part cheerleader, and part "out of the box thinker"…. She is a wonderful leader and very persuasive. She certainly has the gift of helping people to reach their goals."

~Mara S, Technical Trainer

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"Barbara helped me get organized in my marketing. What a big difference she can make! She gets to the point of what her clients need. Her talent is that she is a great listener and can follow through very quickly on what's needed."

~Liz B, Women's Empowerment Coach

"[Barbara's] skills as a facilitator really helped me to get my act together and work towards coming up with solutions… I found that the group's encouragement, with Barbara's coaching, to be just the ticket to success. I highly recommend Barbara's Mastermind groups as a way for professionals to grow."

~Jim S, Project Management Consultant and Trainer

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"Barbara arranged productive [Mastermind] meetings and had seemingly endless energy…. She had an intuitive sense of drawing out ideas of benefit to each person. I gained a great deal from the group, as did all the other participants."

~William W, Senior Software Engineer

"Barbara offers a broad range of technical and application skills as well as having a good business sense…. She easily understands both professional and applications processes and ensures that business and technical issues are quickly identified and addressed. Barbara possesses excellent interpersonal skills, a thorough understanding of the project management process, and the ability to interact confidently with varying levels of management and individuals with potentially divergent agendas."

~Harry G, Controller, Information Technology Consulting Company

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