Sean Barnard Consulting brings over 40 years of experience to your company. We specialize in every aspect of recruitment, onboarding, development, employment, and the Intentional Retention of your best Team Members.
Our unique ‘Culture Health Check’© system provides leaders a real insight into how and what Team Members won’t tell you. We create customized and signature templates for all HR related policies, procedures, handbooks, training and coaching materials, and onboarding documentation.
Find out the real perceptions of your employees, learn how to keep your top performers, and build a coveted Employer of Choice status.
We are highly qualified for our clients
We produce quantifiable and tangible results.
We give our Clients their ‘lives back’ to enjoy doing what they love the most.
We never serve more than 5 Premier Clients at any one time.
Our Fixed-Time Clients are limited to no more than 3 at any one time.
Sean recently served as the first Chief Operating Officer for Smiles Ahead, a 5-brand, multi-disciplined group of Orthodontic, Pediatric and General dental offices throughout North Carolina. Dr. Jack Burrow III, DDS, MS and the partners of Burrow, Welchel and Culp PLLC recruited and charged Sean with the successful creation of a positive internal culture for legacy and new offices, building a retention program and defining a qualified leadership team.
Dr. Jack later told Sean “I should have hired you years ago…you have managed to do in 2 years what I thought would take ten.”
His international career spans over 40 years in Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. He has helped owners, teams and clients develop the ability to become better leaders, who create better places to work. Starting his gaming career as a dealer of roulette in England in 1979, he moved into junior management before making the decision to grasp a rare opportunity and move to Paradise Island, in the Bahamas.
After several decades in a wide variety of leadership roles, Sean Barnard has witnessed the demise of the investment business owners make in their teams. Entry, mid-level, and even experienced managers are usually promoted with a nod of a job well done, an increase in pay, and the opportunity to fail miserably.
The profit margins of any business are primarily affected by the low or high cost of labor. This equates to somewhere between getting what you pay for or bankruptcy. We have reduced the number of directors and managers and forced talented people to serve in two roles at once. All topped off with a remarkable lack of training.
Sean’s best-selling book provides owners and leaders at every level with THE essential guide for success. Intentional Retention is an essential tool that leaders use as a timeless resource to create a healthy and positive workplace culture. It serves to build trust and a guiding light to what effective leadership is really all about.
Insightful and full of pertinent information. We can all agree recruiting a good employee is a challenge but retaining one is even harder.
Sean has laid out a cohesive plan that will guide you to the desired result. Must have for all leaders no matter their experience.
Sean’s articulate storytelling and real world application gives insight into modern problems with employee engagement and retention. Leaders MUST drive a company culture to attract and retain the modern workforce. Intention Retention distills best practices and perspectives from various cultures, industries, and teams into an easy-to-read guide with practical suggestions. A must-have for any HR and leadership team!
This book was so easy to read and filled with so much useful advice for helping with leadership roles in any size of business model. Great guide if your just starting a business or need some help with an older business!
Leaders face significant challenges in retaining talented employees. Nurturing a loyal and engaged workforce is crucial. Sean, an expert in HR and leadership development, provides a compelling guide on employee retention. Intentional Retention’ offers invaluable insights for creating a culture of commitment and loyalty. An indispensable resource for leaders navigating employee retention challenges.
A fantastic blend of memoir-style storytelling and guided education on modern management and leadership skills. Emphasizes the importance of learning to communicate effectively with employees, not just as a requirement but as the right thing to do. Covers a wide range of leadership topics, including communication, core values, and recruitment. The balance of personal storytelling and education helps readers relate and understand how leaders can continuously grow and learn.
This was a great read! There’s so much to learn packed inside. I highly recommend for anyone wanting to learn more.
Sean combines his knowledge and personal stories to create a book truly worth reading. A must-read for business owners and those in HR. Intentional Retention’ will improve staff quality and morale, whether your business is established or new.
This book is filled with relevant, relatable and useful guidance for real world human resource issues we all face! A pleasant read and well worth the purchase!
This book is so informative and well written. Love the leadership style. Would recommend for anyone in a leadership position!
Captivating book highlighting modern day struggles with retention and impactful ways to find, keep and motivate to create stronger teams and leadership.
Worth the read and excited to implement within my own department!
This is one leadership book I will share with friends. Full of well-researched content and actionable ideas. Very inspiring and highly satisfying. Already marked several pages to revisit. Well done, Sean!
Not a big reader, but recommended ‘Intentional Retention’ for management. An easy read full of useful information and interesting stories on best practices. Has many takeaways and will be recommended to others. A great inspirational leadership book!
Intentional Retention’ is a quick and easy read with great advice and meaningful stories. Started taking notes by Page 2. Used an excerpt during a director’s evaluation. Sharing the book with executives to inspire their leadership.
Sean captures the critical and overwhelming area of HR in a common-sense, easy-to-follow format. Offers insight, personal experience, and humor, making it a fun and easy read. Provides sound guidance in HR and leadership. Purchased copies as gifts for new leaders, and they loved it too.
Found this book to be one of the best on management topics. Easy read that helps set the right mindset. Ordering copies for everyone who supervises people at my business. This will be our ‘go-to’ guide from now on.
After several decades in a wide variety of leadership roles, Sean Barnard has witnessed the demise of the investment business owners make in their teams. The entry, mid-level, and even experienced managers are usually promoted with a nod of a job well done, an increase in pay, and the opportunity to fail miserably.
The profit margins of any business are primarily affected by the low or high cost of labor. This equates to somewhere between getting what you pay for or bankruptcy. We have reduced the number of directors and managers and forced talented people to serve in two roles at once. All topped off with a remarkable lack of training.
Sean’s best-selling book provides, owners and leaders at every level with the guide for success those who are readying themselves or are already in a leadership role with a guide to success. Intentional Retention is the tool leaders use to leave something behind that is a timeless resource for how everyone on the team should enjoy working for you. leaving something that is timeless for how leaders could and should treat anyone on their team.
Leaders want to be the best version of themselves and retain team members who genuinely want to be a part of a success story. How they recruit is only the beginning of a long journey that is often cut short by simply not knowing – what they don’t know. Leadership is an art that can be learned – where internal conflict can be navigated without losing sleep.
This motivating keynote address centered around a 40 year journey that took me from behind the scenes pressing shirts at a dry cleaner shop in England to running a $250m revenue gaming resort with over 1500 team members in Kansas City and on to taking the role of COO for a privately held dental group in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I share with an audience how the victories of many opportunities lead to success and the incredibly painful blunders that had me tripping over my own feet along the way.
Attendees leave with invaluable lessons of a self made C-Suite executive, and the keys to becoming the best leaders in their fields.
“Sean Barnard was key in navigating through the uncertainty of merging several privately owned dental practices into a single multi-speciality entity. His grace and resiliency proved steadfast as he worked to build the businesses. Sean is a pleasure with which to work!”
“Sean has a unique ability to engage all levels of team members within an organization, creating a fun and motivating environment to strategize, learn and work. He has played a critical part in our company’s strategic planning, branding and team member development.”
“Your arrival during a time of chaos was nothing short of a miracle. You brought stability and direction to the team”
“Sean has totally transformed the hiring process and allowed our practices to find the best-qualified candidates, saving tremendous amounts of time, and even more importantly, avoiding the wrong hires.”
“Our new corporate culture has had great positivity with team member attitudes. Sean helped turn a very large ship around. It took time but the ship turned. My business has been streamlined, and better organized with great cost savings.”
“Sean came to our rescue. I trust his ability to offer the same level of excellence that we live and work by. I would highly recommend it to any professionals and business owners.”
