Barbara Jackson has over twenty five years of management and consulting experience in leading organizations – and the people that work in them – through rapid turnarounds and change processes. Now the Co- Founder and President of One to One Broadcasting, an internet based broadcast producer and distributor of custom content and Your Career Doctors Inc., an enterprise dedicated to career development and life balance anchored by the Your Career Doctors radio show, Barbara has been a pioneer in the field of virtual interactions.
Barbara has held key management positions in state and municipal governments, all of which required rapid diagnosis of core operational problems and the implementation of solutions. As the Budget Director for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts she managed the budget of over $16 Billion and implemented a fiscal strategy that yielded a turnaround from near bankruptcy in 1991 and an unprecedented four point upgrade from the Wall Street rating agencies in only 36 months.
Earlier, while working for New York City, she was the Commissioner of Surface Transit at the Department of Transportation; which included running the venerable Staten Island Ferry. As the First Deputy Commissioner of the NYC Department of Ports and Trade, she reformed the Building Inspection, Waterfront Construction, and Real Estate Divisions and conducted real estate negotiations with the Port Authority for expansion of NYC airports. As VP Finance and Budget for NJTransit, she was responsible for financial management of the statewide transportation agency and obtaining financing for two extensions of the North East Rail Corridor. Barbara was also a Deputy Director in NYC’s Office of Management and Budget where her focus was on the operational units at NYPD during the fiscally challenged years of the City’s bankruptcy in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
As a consultant Barbara built programs that maximized employee performance at all organizational levels. A few of her clients have included MetLife, Tim e Magazine, United Nations Development Program, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and various organizations within GE Capital’s European Division.
Barbara has a BA from Providence College and a Masters in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Government at Syracuse University. She is a Board Member of the Quonset Development Corporation and a past Director of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. She is an avid sailor and is active in community programs. Her most recent book, UP – Power, Influence, and the You Perspective, co-authored with Lee E. Miller is a Directors Pick for the Association of Financial Executives, Working Woman’s Magazine, and Women Unlimited.
Lee Miller is the Managing Director of NegotiationPlus.com with offices in the USA and Asia, a Senior Consultant with The Cabot Advisory Group and co-host of the Your Career Doctors Radio Show. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he works with organizations and individuals on how they can more effectively lead and influence others, both internally within an organization and externally with clients, customers and vendors. H e advises on organizational development, human resource management, recruiting career development, influencing, negotiating and compensation. He also provides executive and career coaching. An Adjunct Professor of Management at Seton Hall University where he teaches MBA courses in Managerial Negotiating, Decision-making and Human Resources Management, in 2003 and 2005 he received the Stillman School’s Award for Teaching Excellence. H e is the author of UP: Influence Power and the U Perspective- The Art of Getting What You Want and the co-author of A Woman’s Guide To Successful Negotiating (McGraw Hill) selected by Atlanta Woman magazine as one of the fifty best books for professional women and a featured book by The Early Show and Good Morning America. He is also the author of the best selling Get More Money on Your Next Job (McGraw Hill),the chapter on “How to Get a Raise or a Promotion” in The Experts' Guide To 100 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do, has written a monthly career column for Monster.com and is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal Online.
Previously he was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at TV Guide Magazine, USA Networks and Barney's New York Inc., a Vice President of Labor and Employee Relations at R.H. Macy & Co. Inc. and a partner and co-chair of the employment and labor group of one of the largest law firms in New Jersey. He is also the author of Employment Discrimination Law (BNA). Lee is the former Chair of the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters, the New York Chapter American Corporate Counsel’s Employment Law Section and Secretary to the Union County Motion Picture Advisory Board. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Washington State Bar Association Credit Union and The American Repertory Ballet Company.
Lee has also developed interactive online/CDROM training program on negotiating, interviewing, customer service, sales, management and active listening as well as an assessment tool to identify a person’s individual influencing/negotiating style for use with training and coaching.
A frequent speaker, he has appeared on CBS’s “The Early Show” ABC’s “Good Morning America,” ABC’s “Money Talk,” NBC’s “Today New York,” CNN’s “Your Money’s Worth,” CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” Bloomberg “Personal Finance,” MSNBC’s “Economy Watch” and NPR’s “Morning Edition.” He has addressed groups such as the American Management Association, The American Society of Women Accountants, Harvard Business School Alumni, Columbia Business School, New Jersey Department of Labor’s Professional Services Group, Today’s Arizona Women, the New Jersey Governor’s Conference on Women, the Women in Power Asia Conference 2005 and 2006 in Malaysia, Singapore Women’s Weekly’s Great Women of Our Time Awards, the NYC Venture Capital Conference and the Wharton Media and Entertainment Conference.
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