Resilient Leadership Coaching to Cultivate a New Kind of ROI

Leverage the experience of an expert coach with a proven methodology.

As your caring truth-teller, strategic thought partner, and accountability advocate, Barbara will help you navigate today’s complex challenges and leadership demands while expanding your capacity, influence and impact.

Lead with purpose
for meaningful results.

Expand your leadership
capacity, influence and impact.

Create clarity out of
chaos and complexity.

Increase your energy,
equanimity and resilience.

Live authentically aligned
with your core values.

Navigating today's complex challenges
and the demands of leadership
can feel depleting and isolating.

Are you feeling out of sync with an increasing sense of burnout and reactivity?

When your actions and values aren't aligned you may feel depleted, make poor decisions and feel less able to lead others.

Are you overwhelmed and frustrated by your attempts to balance work and life?

Contrary to popular belief, work-life balance is a myth that stifles purpose, joy and your ability to engage with what matters most.

Do self-limiting beliefs and internal naysayers diminish your willingness to take risks?

All successful have experienced the impact of self-limiting beliefs: fear of failure, imposter syndrome, and indecisiveness. You are not alone.

Are your relationships, personally and professionally, as strong as they could be?

Unhealthy relationships breed distrust, stifle crucial conversations, and limit your ability to inspire, engage and influence others.

You don't have to choose between success and depletion.

Coaching for a New Kind of ROI

Entrepreneurship Turned Inward^™

Combining decades of experience as a coach and Gerontologist with a life-long passion for adult development, leadership, and energy management, Barbara developed the Entrepreneurship Turned Inward^™ (ETI) coaching methodology. ETI gets at the heart of what makes entrepreneurship profound and empowering at a personal and professional level. You will cultivate the rewards, influence, and impact of your success without sacrificing your energy, equanimity, and the relationships that matter most.

Barbara's coaching and methodology is for...

CEOs and C-Level Executives

NGO and Non-Profit Leaders

Business Owners & Entrepreneurs

Game-Changers & Influencers

What is the ROI of coaching?

97%

Individuals/companies report being “satisfied or very satisfied” and 96% would repeat the process.

Source:
IFC Global Coaching Study 2019

73%

Participants report achieving personal and professional development goals “very effectively” or “extremely effectively.”

Source:
Library of Professional Coaching

86%

Companies said that they at least made back their initial investment, with a median ROI of 7x.

Source:
ICF Global Coaching Study 2019

67%

Participants report having increased confidence due to soft skills and self-awareness development.

Source:
Library of Professional Coaching

Cultivate a New Kind of ROI

Leverage Barbara’s experience and proven ETI methodology.

"Barb is singular as a teacher. She is an outstanding colleague and a phenomenal teacher. Be prepared, be professional, and be ready to go all the way with her because she is not f**king around. Best of all, be assured that she will get amazing results."

"Before working with Barbara I did not understand the potential of coaching. Barbara has the ability to capture the essence of a complex situation and build a productive conversation around it."

Once I started working with Barbara, I identified ways in which I was working against myself work-wise, health-wise and even psychologically.

Barbara is a highly skilled coach and facilitator and uses progressive tools to help you see things more clearly so that decisions become easier... I gained the confidence I needed to leave my unfulfilling corporate job and pursue I life I now live and love everyday.

"Barbara was a strong asset as I prepared to step into an executive role. She helped me articulate what was holding me back; create a plan and confidently step into my new role."

"Barbara has a terrific tool box and is very results driven, thoughtful and organized. She helps me see different ways of viewing a situation which are transformational."

"Barbara Waxman's empathetic and practical approach to inspiring people to embrace midlife is a marvel to watch."

"Barbara pushed me out of my comfort zone which resulted in me taking more bold action in my business decisions. Barbara has an uncanny way of getting to the root cause of whatever issue you are dealing with..."

Barbara blends together wisdom, leadership, coaching and business acumen to help you achieve your own goals. Whether it's a career transition, a challenge in your current role, a desire to create a long-term plan..."

"She helped me attain clarity of purpose, re-center myself on what I truly valued, and rechannel the courage that I deployed on behalf of everyone around me to courage in myself. "

"With Barbara’s insights I have been more self-aware of my strengths and challenges and have been about to strengthen my overall leadership as a result."

Barbara Waxman MS, MPA, PCC
Coach, Longevity and Leadership Expert, Gerontologist, Angel Investor

Barbara’s North Star journey began with visits to the Menorah Home and Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, when she accompanied her physician father as he went there to volunteer. Years later, it became more nuanced when her then-8-year-old daughter was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. She became a navigator, which led her to the purpose-driven work she’s been doing for decades—coaching others to become their best selves for the longest time possible and for what matters most.

As founder of The Odyssey Group, Barbara is a highly sought-after longevity and leadership advocate, advisor, coach, speaker and author. Her leadership as a gerontologist in the coaching field has culminated in the transformative Entrepreneurship Turned Inward™️ (ETI) coaching model, the evidence-informed Seven Lifestyle Levers Assessment™️ and the Longevity Roadmap™️.

Featured in Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global, the Wall Street Journal, Next Avenue, the CBS This Morning show and more, Barbara shares her experience and pivotal insights on topics including how the striking advances in longevity call for a different approach to align health span with lifespan; why the midlife crisis is a myth; why middlescence is life's newest potential-filled stage; why the word retirement needs to be retired and more.

Barbara is an Advisor to the Stanford Center on Longevity, Stanford Lifestyle Medicine and is a faculty member at Chip Conley's Modern Elder Academy.  Barbara is the author of two books examining aging, including The Middlescence Manifesto: Igniting the Passion of Midlife and How to Love Your Retirement.