Barry Lipscomb

Vice-president, Finance and Operations @Learning As Leadership

San Francisco, CA, US

Leadership development firm focused on deep and sustained transformation. High profile clients include Capital One, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA, Harvard, and the Ford Foundation.• Drove strategic business, financial and operational rigor throughout this 30-year legacy organization, creating sustainable operations and enabling a 75% increase in revenues.• Implemented CRM along with sales pipeline tracking and developed staff resource planning model to forecast sales, set monthly enrollment and maximize utilization of staff resources. • Built comprehensive planning model to forecast revenue, compensation and profitability, informing strategy and enabling better and more long-term focused decision making.• Created annual planning process, developing and aligning yearly priorities with the long-term strategy. • Designed and implemented incentive compensation and profit-sharing plan along with performance management review process. • Orchestrated transition of staff and spearheaded hiring efforts to elevate talent, setting up next generation succession planning.• Transformed hiring process, creating diversity recruiting strategy, developing interview practices to minimize bias, and leading decision making for consistency and objectivity.• Developed and mentored staff to work more autonomously, creating opportunities for solving problems and making higher level decisions independently.

Virginia Tech - Pamplin College of Business

Bachelor's Degree