Antonia Barber
I use my experience gained in my 30 year career as a lawyer, mediator and business owner to help small service business owners create businesses which thrive.
What do I do?
As a mediator I have worked with people who are in conflict, personally or in business/workplace. As a lawyer my training is about finding solutions to tricky problems and getting fast to the core of a worry. This experience and training help me help small business owners to find the best way to build their business. Creating new income streams is my speciality and passion. Having reached/peaked the billable hours as a lawyer I founded and created online business training courses to maximise the reach of knowledge and people to be helped.
Work with me one to one or in a programme?
When you have a need for clarity then one to one clarity sessions provide the answers fast. These are:
- Efficient (both in times of costs and the time spent in dealing with the issue).
- Faster (a typical consultation can usually be organised in a few days).
- Calming – I help people put conflict behind them and move forward to something better, with minimum hassle and a clear plan.
I work with business owners to support them and help them understand how to create a stronger business which provides balance and enjoyment in their life. The focus is on leadership and self-awareness and to improve their business relationships, which in turn builds them a better life.
Why do I do it?
I started working as a lawyer over 30 years ago. I ‘won’ many cases and I was offered a partnership just after I qualified because of these ‘successes’. Workloads and my value were all based on purely billable hours. Successful in business meant almost zero down time and being too tired for a social life. I was winning!
I realised that ‘winning’ court cases didn’t mean joy or feeling good about the win, because a win usually results in damage to someone, a win means someone loses. This never felt good to me. So I set about creating a business which was balanced, equal and fair. I created training and legal resources which help, affordably and easily small businesses. The next stage now is BalancedHQ which is all about helping people in business to create something better and more healthy in their lives. Service business owners who know there is something better for them than working all the hours and want help from someone who can help having resolved the challenge themselves in their own business – that’s me!
I know working all the hours in a business means:
- relationships (business and otherwise) irretrievably broken. Business partners who were friends become enemies. People whose businesses need each other (and rely on each other to thrive) are no longer able to work together.
- exhausted leaders!This means a less efficient and unhappy workplace. It also means less profit and a distracted boss.
- A lack of enjoying achievement and instead feeling deflated. There is a better way.
About Me
I have over 30 years of knowledge and experience to help you. I started work by helping injured people (personal injury and medical negligence claims) and people suffering from mental health issues. I then started working on business and workplace issues. I have also worked with the Law Society and their assistance and regulation schemes to help solicitors in crisis. This included intervention when solicitors were unable to cope.
I qualified as a solicitor and became a partner in a leading Welsh law firm. I left after 6 years to open my own firm with my best friend. That firm closed because of ill health and major legal aid changes. We opened a consultancy providing business with a practical, affordable and legal services. That business now provides affordable and easy to use legal documents and training.
I retired as a traditional solicitor and qualified as a mediator. I wanted to use my legal, life and business knowledge and experience to achieve a better outcome for those who work with me.
What are the benefits of working with me?
When you work with me, we find a map to move you forward. It’s a journey to learn from the past and build a better future for you. My knowledge and experience will help you:
- plan your business to provide a better balance in your life
- create products from your knowledge
- focus on self-improvement and building a better life with more balance
- work on leadership and self-awareness means improving your profitability, productivity and how you thrive in business and life. It impacts on all aspects of your life, business and those around you.
Email me at toni@balancedhq.com or use this form
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