Inspiring Audiences of Leaders and Strategy & Performance Professionals
Stacey Barr helps leaders turn strategy into measurable results using evidence-based leadership. She is the creator of the PuMP® performance measurement methodology and author of Prove It!
Her conversations are practical, engaging, and focused on helping leaders improve strategy execution and organisational performance.
What if You Could Prove Your Impact With Just One Goal?
Marc Fonteijn, of the Service Design Show podcast, interviews Stacey (again) about the remarkably simple process to get from vague goals to meaningful measures, clear targets, and effective actions – that gives you real leverage to achieve the impact you want to make. Listen here.
A New Approach to Measuring Design’s Impact
Marc Fonteijn, of the Service Design Show podcast, interviews Stacey about the puzzle of how to measure and quantify the value of design. Listen here.
A Truth Searcher From Down Under!
Michel Dekker, of the Data Voorstellingen podcast, interviews Stacey about PuMP, but we also talked with her about other topics like Queensland, statistics, railways, weasel words, motorcycles, OKR’s, KPI’s, XmR’s, vegan chocolate, the 1990 wool crisis, drag racing and more. Listen here.
Creating A High Performance Culture With Evidence Based Leadership
Business Leadership Today TV interviews Stacey about ideas for improving employee engagement by utilizing effective measurement and measuring actions, not people. Listen here.
Which KPIs should I use to measure performance?
Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG, interviews Stacey about how to ‘measure the immeasurable’ (intangible, qualitative and vague goals). Listen here.
Using KPI’s to drive Peak Performance
Mukesh Gupta, of the Pushing Beyond the Obvious podcast, interviews Stacey about what good KPIs really are, what their purpose really is, and the process of creating great KPIs. Listen here.
Practical Performance Measurement
Mark Gandy, of the CFO Bookshelf podcast, interviews Stacey about the reason for poor performance, using thinking before tools in measurement, what is accountability, and much more. Listen here.
Safety, Culture & Measuring KPIs
Garry Marling, of the Safety Culture podcast, interviews Stacey about the importance of setting and tracking meaningful KPI’s, the pitfalls of a ‘measure everything’ culture, how leaders can engage a remote workforce with KPI’s, and how to best measure safety culture. Listen here.
What to Hold People Accountable For
Dave Stachowiak, of the Coaching for Leaders podcast, interviews Stacey (again) about the struggles of holding people accountable for quantitative results, including behaviors that often lead to unintended consequences, and an invitation to leaders to instead hold people accountable for monitoring, interpretation, and action. Listen here.
PuMP – A New Method For Measurement
David Pembroke, of the GovComms podcast, interviews Stacey about why PuMP is different to other measurement tools, an example of PuMP in action, defining measurable goals, and more. Listen here.
Performance Measurement That Gets Results
Dave Stachowiak, of the Coaching for Leaders podcast, interviews Stacey about some of the common mistakes that leaders and organizations make with performance measurement and what well-formulated performance measures have. Listen here.
How to Make KPIs Practical and Engaging to Create a High-Performance Culture
Pedro Soto, of Westbury Analytics, interviews Stacey about how right approach to performance measurement is like gravity, pulling our attention and action toward the most important things we should focus on and improve. Listen here.
Five Ways to Measure Performance
Harvard Business Review interviews Stacey about the pros and cons of different performances measures and explains when to use each one. Listen here.
Convince Executives to Measure Performance
Harvard Business Review interviews Stacey about why it’s important to put the focus on continuous improvement, not blame. Listen here.
Setting Your Goals Without Jargon
Harvard Business Review interviews Stacey about how to use sensory words to make your goals stick. Listen here.
Interview Stacey on your podcast!
Stacey speaks on evidence-based leadership and strategic performance management topics such as:
- Why leaders shouldn’t delegate KPIs but own evidence in strategy
- The strategy-execution gap leaders don’t see
- Why performance dashboards fail leaders
- How making strategy measurable will make it more executable
- Evidence-based leadership in practice
Contact Stacey directly to arrange a chat or ask for her speaker profile, and explore how she could be a unique guest on your podcast: