Executive & Professional Development

"Dr. Belk is a proactive, strategic, and business-savvy executive coach. She involves herself in her client's self-discovery process and helps them realize their highest potential. She helped me see my own strengths and weaknesses more clearly, and focus on my goals in an ambiguous corporate environment that I was in at the time. She is a great partner to work with."
Michelle Yeh
Sr. Vice President
International Business Development
Shaklee Corporation

"Dr. Barbara Belk was highly recommended to me by a Corporate CEO at a time when I was looking for massive business growth. Her unique coaching method has challenged, guided and supported me to increase my business sales volume by 500%. Working with Barbara gives me the insight and distinctions I need to continually take my business to the next level. Barbara is my secret weapon!"
Jennifer Glacken
Founder and President
Glacken Health and Wellness

“While I had general ideas of what I wanted, each time I spoke with Barbara, she broke things down into clearly defined actions to take me closer to my goals. That’s something I just couldn’t do on my own.”
Donna Summerville
Television Producer / Media Coach
Seminars & Workshops

“I've attended many management offsite and leadership trainings and this one was far and above the most enjoyable and productive that I've attended.... In particular the technique/format Barbara and her colleagues used to steer the group into actually setting achievable (strategic) goals for our program made it not only painless but both fun and extremely meaningful. By breaking down the task into very understandable steps our group easily focused on getting to the end result. Time flew past and we accomplished what needed to be done!”
Leslie Paine, Manager
Markstein Cancer Education and Prevention Center,
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
Strategic Planning Offsite: participant

“AGC has been in business for more than 85 years. In the last 15 years AGC has moved to Strategic Business Planning; and has had numerous facilitators and several revised Strategic Plans. Based on our past strategic planning sessions, I can say with knowledge and experience that Belk & Associates, specifically Dr. Barbara Belk, lifted AGC to a new plane in strategic planning. Not only were the sessions that led to the Strategic Business Plan innovative and engaging, but they moved every participant to “think outside the box”. After only a day and a half AGC came away with a five-year Strategic Plan that was unanimously embraced by all participants and created what will be the boilerplate as well as the structure for AGC to grow and be even more effective in customer service and industry leadership.”
Thomas T. Holsman
Chief Executive Officer
Association of General Contractors: California

“Dr Belk’s familiarity with the subject matter, her ease working with our diverse group, and her personalized materials made the day particularly enjoyable and productive. The comments after the meeting were even more encouraging, “bring her back again!”
Mark Lindquist
m.a. Lindquist co. inc.
general building contractors

“I knew Dr. Belk was good, but after she handled our group, I realized just how good she really is!”
Elihu Harris
Chancellor
Peralta Schools, SF East Bay

“ It was extremely effective, realistic, and inspiring…and these comments come from someone who is rather skeptical of the benefit of time management courses!”
Sr. VP of Operations
Time Management Seminar: participant

“Dr. Belk did a very good job. The best presenter we’ve had here.”
Overcoming Barriers to Success Seminar: participant

“Very useful – not only theory but actual ways of changing things. I think it will be useful for my personal life as well!“
Dealing With Difficult People Offsite: participant