About Terry Barber

Terry Barber is America’s Chief Inspiration Officer. Over the last 25 years, he has delivered more than 1,000 keynote presentations and seminars to total audiences of over one million people. His mission is to equip and empower leaders, companies, and nonprofit organizations to be intentional about becoming inspiring from the inside out. His seven proven principles of inspiration have been published in his latest book, The Inspiration Factor, Greenleaf Publishing, and have received praise from leaders throughout the U.S., the U.K. and Australia.

He has served as a consultant to organizations such as Emory University, Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Duke University, AARP Foundation and World Vision. He continues to consult with the ALS Association, National Parkinson Foundation and Operation Blessing on how to integrate the seven principles of inspiration into everything from employee engagement, to fundraising, to branding. And it’s working. The National Parkinson Foundation said of Terry Barber’s work, “This is the most unique and powerful approach to brand I have ever experienced!”

Terry’s articles on the subject of inspiration as a new metric for business have been published in Forbes, HR.com, American Business Management, Leadership Excellence, and literally hundreds of other publications around the world and in multiple languages.

Prior to consulting for the nonprofit community, he had created a successful student leadership development organization that focused on helping high school students find self-esteem in positive character traits versus performance. His curriculum was eventually used in over 500 school districts around the U.S.

More recently, Terry founded the Institute on Inspiration for the purpose of serving the training and educational sectors. The institute provides tools for assessing personal and organizational indexes on inspiration. His most recent survey was the first in the world to use quantifiable metrics for benchmarking the Most Inspiring Companies in the U.S., the subject also of his next book to be released early 2011.