Barbara Cox, PhD, is a psychologist and coach for innovative leaders, and a business consultant, whose advice has been featured in local and national publications, including MSN.com and Cosmopolitan and Conscious Company. She specializes in helping innovative leaders and organizations through her classes, trainings, and personalized sessions that blend positive psychology, peak performance hypnosis, intuitive tools, and meditation.

She also writes fiction and non-fiction stories with the themes of individual empowerment, community-building, and personal awakening. She has presented at places such as UNESCO’s Organization of World Heritage Cities Conference on building community in cities.

Barbara started her career as a scientist, having earned a B.A. in Biology from the University of California, San Diego. She worked as an environmental scientist, most notably organizing environmental projects for the Department of Defense (DOD). During her time in this role, she coordinated permits, wrote environmental articles, coordinated with base media to spread the word on new environmental projects, and ran community focus groups.

From there, she branched out into working for environmental consulting firms. “I loved managing large-scale projects; however, I wanted to get involved in more ‘people’ work,” she says, “so I went on to receive a doctorate in health psychology from Alliant International University (AIU), with further training in hypnosis and peak performance coaching.” Eventually, Barbara ventured forth to study more esoteric subjects and to look at the larger meaning of life, beyond left-brained science. She completed a intuitive training program through Berkeley Psychic Institute. She enjoys working with clients and companies who consider themselves grounded, logical intellectuals, yet open to explore and grow their intuitive side and wanted to use innovative tools to bring out their innovation, creativity, and business vision. Barbara uses a holistic, integrated approach that incorporates both traditional goal- setting techniques, as well as alternative techniques such as business constellations, meditation, NLP, Qi Gong, and hypnosis to help leaders and organizations reach their goals more quickly.