Professional Trainer
Barry Mohn has 13 years of experience in management, business consulting, and training. His training focuses on:
- Presentation skills
- Business and technical writing
- Meeting facilitation
- Career development
The typical audience includes employees, management, and executive management in high-tech, financial services, healthcare, biotech, audit, and accounting.
Barry began his career in hospitality, an arena in which he led a team of 30 employees as the hotel manager of PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn in Olympic Valley, CA. Here he developed policies and procedures, and training programs addressing customer service and sexual harassment.
Barry built upon his hotel experience as a business consultant for Principa, a global consulting firm based in Brisbane, Australia. In this position Barry developed and presented training programs for over 60 clients in the accounting industry. Specifically, the programs included: Strategic Planning, Customer-Service Strategy, Monitoring Key Performance Indicators, Strategic Marketing, and Analysis of Business Financial Statements.
Barry’s overseas background also includes teaching English in Akita and Hiroshima, Japan; and designing and delivering technical-writing training for software engineers in China, Taiwan, and South Korea.
In Barry’s training programs, he focuses on (1) stepping into the shoes of participants to understand their needs and (2) providing easily implemented tools to meet those needs. He also develops an easy rapport with participants to create an atmosphere of working together to overcome performance challenges. His approach ensures that the training is positive, energetic, and applicable to a participant’s day-to-day work.
