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Barbara Bartos

Barbara L. Bartos is President and Co-Founder of Speakers.com and has over 20 years’ experience as a lecture agent. She co-founded Speakers.com (originally called Speakers–Online) with her partner and husband, Glenn Smith, drawing on her background in the speaking industry and Glenn’s experience as a business technology consultant. The synergetic team became industry pioneers, going on-line with Speakers.com in 1994, as the world's very first website for professional public speakers.

The success of this collaboration led to the founding of InterSpeak, Inc. in 1995, an international full-service speakers bureau, a partnership with Expert Magazine in 1996, a popular industry resource & the creation of Expert Radio in 1997, which broadcast on the Radio America Network.

Barbara began her career in the professional speaking industry in 1987 as Vice President of Cosby Bureau International, a Washington, DC-based lecture bureau which exclusively represented such distinguished speakers as Clair Booth Luce, Carl Sagan, and Kurt Vonnegut. Barbara continued her career from 1989 to 1996 as Vice President of National Speakers Forum in Washington, DC, eventually aquired by the Leigh Bureau.

Prior to moving to Washington, Barbara was an executive in the motion picture film and video software industry, marketing “raw stock” to national and international clients. In the course of her 7-year tenure at Studio Film & Tape, Inc., she became Vice President, and by 27 years old was managing the 20-person New York City office of the California-based company. Her contributions were credited with helping establish the most profitable period in the company’s history up to that time.

Barbara originally moved to New York’s Greenwich Village after graduating from college to pursue a career in theatre. She appeared in several off-off Broadway plays & waitressed in many off-off Broadway restaurants.

Barbara received her BS in Communication Arts from Mansfield University. She lives with her husband Glenn, their Springer Spaniel, Cocoa, and two “love” birds in Annapolis, MD.

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Designed to Adapt

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Talk Less, Say More

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A Sense of Urgency

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The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History

In his newest book, The Great Depression Ahead (January 2009), Harry Dent outlines how this next great downturn is likely to unfold in three stages, with an interim boom stage between 2012 and 2017 before the long-term slowdown finally turns into the next global boom in the early 2020s.

The Truth About What Customers Want

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Dealing with Darwin

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The Truth About You

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Saving the World at Work

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Greater Than Yourself

Released in March 2009, Steve Farber's newest book, Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership, shows that the goal of true leadership is to help others become even more capable, confident, and accomplished than their leaders.

Collapse of Distinction: Stand out and move up while your competition fails

In Collapse of Distinction, Scott McKain takes a revolutionary approach in clearly showing how organizations and individual professionals create differentiation in the market -- vital in securing customers and growing market share.

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