Services Overview

Raising the Barr focuses on cultural transformation within communities and organizations that truly desire to make their corners of the world a better place for all beings. Raising The Barr offers five areas of service to mission-driven people and entities:

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  1. Keynotes Speeches & Presentations

  2. Workshop Trainings

  3. Strategic Planning Facilitations

  4. Community Dialogues

  5. Personal Coaching

Raising the Barr and Joshua V. Barr present and conduct workshops on the following topics:

  • Civil & Human Rights

  • Anti-Racism & Socio-Economic Justice

  • Civic Engagement & Community Transformation

  • Educational Transformation of our Schools

  • Corporate Social Responsibility

  • Small Business and Entrepreneur Success

  • Personal Transformation and Professional Success

  • Fair Housing Rights

  • Employee Relations & Team Building

Raising The Barr can also conduct mediations between employees to form stronger relationships in the workplace and community dialogues for organizations and entities to build bridges with the community.

Each presentation, training, and dialogue is specialized based on the needs of the organization. Contact us if you truly desire to raise the barr of your organization. 

Upon informing our management team that we were having mandatory diversity training, I got the standard groans of “not again”. I let them know that we were bringing in a new presenter this year and I was sure it would be informative and worthwhile. Joshua provided that and more.

Joshua worked with me ahead of time to understand our agency needs and get to know the dynamics of our management team. During the presentation, our management team was engaged and even excited to participate in the conversation and consider the information that Joshua was presenting. Joshua was dynamic, relatable, and incredibly informative. He spoke to our management team in a way that made them want to pay attention and digest the presentation material. I received several compliments from our team on the overall presentation and specifically on how wonderful the presenter was. We will definitely be asking Joshua back and would recommend his diversity training ten times over.
— Brooke Parzaile, HR Manager, Iowa Finance Authority