Dr. Gavin Barton is a skilled coach and consultant with over 25 years of experience helping individuals and teams increase performance and develop expertise. He is Managing Director of the Leonard-Barton Group LLC, a company specializing in talent development and the transfer of expertise. In that capacity, he has coached individuals in leadership, high performance and career development in addition to conducting programs of knowledge identification and transfer for major corporations.
Dr. Gavin Barton is a skilled coach and consultant with over 25 years of experience helping individuals and teams increase performance and develop expertise. He is Managing Director of the Leonard-Barton Group LLC, a company specializing in talent development and the transfer of expertise. In that capacity, he has coached individuals in leadership, high performance and career development in addition to conducting programs of knowledge identification and transfer for major corporations.
Dr. Barton has applied his research on reflective, experiential learning by professionals and his experience with the development of expertise to business situations. He specializes in coaching professional development at all levels of the organization
A certified executive coach, Dr. Barton holds a Masters in Counseling and a Doctorate in Counseling and Performance Psychology from Boston University. He works with executives, employees, and teams to develop their leadership and the skills necessary to achieve their highest performance as well as helping managers provide an environment that supports and sustains learning and professional growth.
Dr. Barton's interest in developing individual potential and enhancing performance derives from his extensive experience as a professional coach and instructor for 25 years. He has been involved in amateur and professional athletics for 38 years, initially as a competitive athlete and then as an award-winning coach, guiding championship-winning athletes and teams.
His co-authored article "Make Yourself an Expert" was published in the Harvard Business Review, April, 2013 and will be included in the HBR Guide to Professional Growth to be published Spring 2019. Dr. Barton is also co-author of Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company's Deep Smarts published by Harvard Business Publishing in 2014. This practical book has been called "an outstanding and comprehensive field guide for anyone who really cares about talent in his or her organization." His dissertation focused on career success and life skill development through sports. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Association of Applied Sport Psychology.
Since obtaining his doctorate at Boston University, Dr. Barton has been an adjunct professor at Lasell College where he taught psychology and sport psychology. He has also been a frequent guest lecturer at Tufts University.