As an HR manager, is your plate already full with:
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Compliance and risk management?
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Payroll coordination and benefits management?
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Recruiting, hiring, engagement and retention?
Such a full job doesn’t leave much time for strategic succession planning!
Small HR teams understand the importance of succession planning and leadership development...
but they lack the time, the capacity, and often the structured processes to do it effectively.
We get it.
Barrenridge Consulting Helps You Solve Your Leadership Challenges
Do you have a new supervisor who's struggling?
We coach new leaders to develop the interpersonal, communication and core leadership skills alongside the confidence to succeed at the next level.
Are managers overwhelmed and reactive?
We support mid-level and senior leaders in shifting from reactive firefighting to strategic, enterprise level leadership.
Are leaders tired of generic training that doesn’t stick?
Our coaching-based programs deliver depth, context, and support that transform behavior.
No clear succession plan in place?
We guide you through a practical process to build your leadership pipeline now—before it becomes a crisis.
“Tim has the remarkable ability to understand vision and translate ideas into clear and meaningful strategy. In the two years I have been working with Tim, I have been able to define an identity for my org and design a culture for it that accurately reflects my goals.”
Kyree Holmes, Executive Director
Evaluate succession readiness.
Identify key leadership skills.
Build a strategic pipeline of future leaders.
At Barrenridge Consulting, our sole focus is on developing a clear, strategic leadership pipeline spanning the next 3-5 years.
We specialize in succession planning and developing leaders through pivotal transitions.
How We Do It
Challenges shift with each new promotion. To meet the next stage of leadership responsibility, we leverage the Leadership Transition Matrix framework.
leadership gaps, support transitions and ensures leaders are prepared for their next level by looking at the 4 Drivers of Leadership Effectiveness:
This helps us identify...
Execution: capacity to deliver; managing priorities, resources, and accountability
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Strategy: the long-term view, seeing patterns, and making decisions that align with organizational goals
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Leadership Development: building leaders, growing talent, and strengthening the pipeline
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Emotional Intelligence: self-awareness and interpersonal skills, the foundation of leadership
​Learn more about the Transition Leadership Matrix.
By mapping these shifts, we help leaders and organizations align leadership growth with long term success and succession planning.
What Makes Us Different
Data-driven, Structured Approach
We take a data-driven, structured approach to identifying the threats and opportunities alongside real succession gaps and then offer viable solutions.
The Right Solutions
We find the right solution whether it’s one of our coaching-based leadership programs or helping you navigate a different path.
Designed for Business Growth
Our solutions are built for companies that recognize the need for succession planning but lack the structure or experience to support it internally.
Are You a Good Fit for Us?
We enjoy working with companies and organizations with these challenges:
· You have 25-1000 employees and multiple layers of leadership
· Your HR team is small, hardworking, and stretched thin
· You don’t have a formal learning and development function
· Leadership and cultural continuity are critical in your industry
If this describes your company, we’d welcome an opportunity to talk with you!
What’s the Hidden Cost of Neglecting Business Succession Planning?
Neglecting succession planning risks more than inconvenience—It threatens your company’s future.
Think stalled growth, disrupted operations, loss of talent and institutional knowledge, elevated turnover and even leadership failure.
Don’t let that happen to your company!
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Let Barrenridge Consulting help you build a leadership pipeline that keeps your business stable—and growing!
I highly recommend this program to anyone. You will come away with a deeper understanding of yourself, practical ways to strengthen your skills, and the confidence to lead in a way that aligns with your values. If you are on the fence about it, just lean in. You and your team will be better for it.
Brad Puffenbarger, Rivanna Water & Sewer
Barrenridge Consulting, LLC
2708 Barrenridge Road
Staunton, VA 24401
Lattitude 38.182121
Longitude -78.963974