Carrie-Ann Barrow, PCC, CPCC
Founder, Scaling Strategies
Carrie-Ann has over twenty years of proven experience serving clients in the areas of business strategy, leadership development, executive coaching and system-wide organization change and development. Known as a results-driven, direct yet compassionate leader, her genuine and collaborative style, nuanced with a sense of humor, champions the goals of her clients.
As an Executive Coach with a successful background in entrepreneurship, Carrie-Ann knows first-hand the challenges faced by leadership, particularly in organizations preparing to scale.
In 2000, Carrie-Ann founded her first company, an information technology staffing company in Washington, DC with a three-year sales growth of 444.7%, achieving Inc. 500 status. She was featured in the Washingtonian Magazine as a Woman to Watch. She now focuses her energy on executive coaching for high performing leaders and teams. Scaling Strategies is the culmination of her passion for helping others achieve their greatness and business building.
She has an exceptional ability to engage senior executives to maximize their leadership and interpersonal skills, leverage results, build high performing teams, and move strategic and profitable change initiatives throughout their organization. Equally important is her passion for making work fun. She has a natural ability to disarm with positivity and humor and create a safe space for the real work of leadership development and team building.
Carrie-Ann’s credentials include:
- ICF-certified PCC coach
- Certified Everything DiSC & Five Behaviors Practitioner
- Leadership Circle certified practitioner
- Coaches Training Institute-certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
- Bachelor’s in psychology
- Master’s in Employee Relations
- Amazon Best-Selling Author, The Queen’s Decree
“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”