Barbara E. Miller
President
Artemis Management Consultants
www.ArtemisManagement.com

Co-Founder, Virtual Connection

Barbara Millerhas thirty years of experience consulting to private, public and non-profit organizations. She has worked successfully in such varied cultures as The U.S. House of Representatives, financial institutions, health care systems, high-technology, rapidly growing entrepreneurial companies, public sector agencies, educational institutions and grassroots non-profit agencies. She has extensive experience working at all levels in an organization: CEO, mid-level manager, professional staff, support staff and union personnel. Her recent clients include: Hewlett Packard, Intel , Agilent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Lucas Digital, The California Academy of Sciences, Stanford University, and Harvard Healthcare.

Barbara has extensive experience facilitating virtual meetings. She has led a virtual, global, finance, project team responsible for redesigning their work, restructuring their department. She has taken virtual work to another level by successfully conducting experiential workshops on video-teleconferencing with participants in four different locations.

Barbara's consulting work has included helping organizations to plan strategically, manage change, build teams, re-organize work flow and reporting relationships to improve productivity, downsize and merge. Barbara is able to bring a unique perspective to her clients because she has been a manager in four organizations. She knows first hand about the day-to-day realities and pressures experienced by managers. Thus, her recommendations are both theoretically sound and pragmatic.

She has also designed and conducted seminars on leadership, managing change, communication skills, selection interviewing, performance review systems, women in management, career development, conflict resolution, empowerment, self-managing teams and managing individual differences, virtual leadership and virtual team building and work-life harmony.

Barbara has authored a number of published articles on management topics including work-life balance, selection interviewing, performance review systems, self managing teams and managing a congressional office. She has also authored and published a workbook, ReInventing Work: Innovative Strategies Relinking Life and Livelihood to Benefit Business and Staff. This workbook has been published in Hebrew and Japanese and can be purchased at www.ArtemisManagement.com