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About barrymike1

Barry Mike is managing partner of Leadership Communication Strategies, LLC, a firm he founded after four years as a managing director for CRA, Inc., a management consultancy specializing in solving business problems whose cause or solution is communications. He has worked extensively as a trusted advisor and leadership communication coach with partners at McKinsey & Co., the world’s leading strategic consulting firm. He has also consulted with senior and emerging leaders in organizations like Kaiser Permanente, Carlson Companies, McDonald’s, Merrill Lynch and Watson Wyatt, crafting a deliberate and outcome-based approach to communicating to key constituents and stakeholders, building leadership communication capability, advancing strategic alignment and communicating corporate change. Barry started consulting after extensive corporate communication experience working with senior executives on strategic leadership communication at T. Rowe Price, Pizza Hut, Verizon, and HP. He has recently published articles on organizational accountability, communicating compliance, and changing corporate culture in the journals Strategy and Leadership, Organizational Dynamics, and Strategic Communication Management.