Barba A. Hickman is Founder and President of Applied Clarity, Inc., a consulting firm that works with executives to uncover and eliminate barriers to growth. Hickman is a certified facilitator and coach with a 20-year history of success in building, leading and serving on focused, high-performance teams. She has served as a board director, senior executive, business consultant or leadership coach for over 30 companies (see client list). Barba's employment background includes direct leadership responsibility for the following corporate functions in multi-billion dollar companies: strategic alliances, marketing, corporate relations, customer relations, and employee training.
As a skilled leader and facilitator, Barba begins each project with a customized audit to uncover hidden issues and untapped opportunities. She delivers conclusions and recommendations drawn from that audit to create a rigorous action plan with accountability checkpoints to allow individuals and teams to quickly achieve forward progress.
She also uses her facilitation and negotiation skills to drive global market acceptance for new technologies. She is the former chairperson for various technology standards committees and was honored by the National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS) for her contributions to the worldwide advancement of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) through the use of radio frequency identification (RFID).
In addition to her professional responsibilities, Barba has also served on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Boulder Valley Schools, as President of the StorageTek Foundation, and as a regional or corporate lead for several charitable organizations including Make-a-Wish Foundation, Habitat for Humanity and United Way.
Barba holds degrees in business and education from the University of Central Missouri where she graduated Summa Cum Laude and received the Outstanding Graduate Award from the College of Business & Economics.