There's a Better Way to Scale
Raise The Bar turns leaders into proactive owners who think strategically, drive initiatives, and manage performance, so execution scales beyond the executive team.
We don’t just teach leadership. We help your people build the behaviors that drive performance across your entire organization.
Where Great Leadership Thrives
High-impact bootcamps and accelerators that turn managers into proactive owners who drive execution.
Coaching That Drives Real Change
Personalized, expert coaching that upgrades how your leaders and executives operate, individually or in peer-based small groups.
Unlock High-Performing Teams
Build the trust, accountability, and operating rhythms that elevate your executive team and business units to new levels of success.
Bar Schwartz
Bar is a strategic leader and coach, adept at guiding business leaders through complex transformations. With an engineering background and over a decade in tech, Bar’s expertise spans strategic consulting, agile methodologies, and leadership development.
Bill Mitchell
Bill is a seasoned business executive with 43+ years of leadership expertise for a leading global foodservice retailer. Bill is skilled at leading diverse teams through transformational change within fast paced, and ever changing business environments.
Darren Barrett
Darren helps today’s busy leaders develop an acute self-awareness, overcome their own fears and learn to inspire and motivate teams authentically and consistently.
Fleur de Vries
Fleur believes that anyone can be a great leader, a leader who is empathic and equitable and who invests in their people. It’s her mission to support leaders in that realization and move the needle to become the best leader they can be.
Genna Clark
Genna’s passion is in supporting more feminine leadership energy to be genuinely championed, practised, valued and rewarded highly by all genders, and at all levels of organizations.
Glasa Gottschalk
Glasa believes that you were not meant to simply survive. You were born to thrive! She is passionate about creating equity, especially for women of color, and believes there is a gap in the coaching industry when it comes to serving marginalized identities.
Jess Jordan
From outdoor adventure guide to leadership coach, Jess has led hundreds of high-powered clients to navigate terrain outside their comfort zones. She helps leaders build the confidence and skills needed to pursue any goal and overcome any challenge.
Julie Bronsteatter
Julie is a certified coach who is known for her infectious energy. She is passionate about helping leaders build confidence from within to create a deep sense of inner trust, resulting in confident decision making without second-guessing.
Kimberly Rauwald Flood
Kimberly’s coaching sweet spot is supporting analytical thinkers to take a more human-centered approach. Continuously learning, she regularly brings insights from neuroscience, positive psychology, and wellbeing into her work.
Lauren Flaherty
Lauren’s greatest discovery is that life is all about reinvention. From Actress to Event Planner, Public Relations and Marketing Specialist to TV Producer, she has spent the last twenty years cultivating skills and building new ones.
Shiri Bade
With a global background in psychology and over a decade of coaching experience, Shiri empowers leaders across industries to unlock clarity, confidence, and meaningful change, with personalized, no-fluff coaching that gets results.
Stacey Patillo-Marshall
Stacey brings a multidisciplinary background to leadership development coaching, from how to accomplish more in less time to helping leaders get clear on the impact they want to have in the world.
Raise The Bar helped GoNanas, a women-owned company known for its delicious and healthy banana bread, strengthen the co-founder partnership to navigate the challenges of scaling a fast-growing business. Through executive and team coaching, RTB equipped the founders with tools to build trust, define roles, create shared values, and develop a resilient working relationship that supports business success.
The efforts resulted in 100% of the team actively uses company values weekly, and GoNanas achieved a 100% employee retention rate since implementing values-based hiring.
Raise The Bar helped TVH, a global company undergoing rapid growth and transformation, strengthen leadership and employee engagement.
Through customized bootcamps, practice labs, and 1:1 coaching, RTB equipped leaders with practical tools to manage change, align globally, and build consistent leadership habits.
The results: employee decision-making involvement up +8%, comfort communicating with superiors up +13%, leadership support up +16%, and 93% of leaders report leading with greater intention.
Raise The Bar’s transformed the leadership culture of Lighthouse, a fast-scaling, global data intelligence company in the hospitality industry.
Facing rapid growth, young leaders, and the need for a shared organizational language, RTB delivered customized training for executives and managers, including 360 assessments, monthly practice labs, and ongoing coaching.
The results: higher leadership confidence (+14%), stronger cultural alignment, a boost in eNPS from 50 to 58, and 100% of leaders feeling supported with the tools and skills to lead effectively.
What Partners Are Saying…
“I no longer feel urged to solve my team's problems, rather I mentor the team along a path to finding their own solutions. As a result, I've seen my team grow more than ever. I'm happy to share that I've recently earned a promotion…”
Lou Benedetto
“We formally promoted him to Vice President in December. He's doing terrific. I'm impressed with his ability to manage his team and lead people, and he's even taught me a thing or two about running productive team meetings. He got a lot out of the program, and it's had a positive impact on his career and leadership.”
Shane Rodgers
“He's leading his department proactively now. He sent a major update out to all our leaders without even running it by me. And our one-on-ones are so much more to the point, so much more dialed in. That's what I expect at a VP level.”
John O'Brien
“He's said the coaching he's getting is some of the best he's ever had, and we're picky. We're a people team; we set people up with coaches.”
Katy Huber
“As we scale our company, we know that our success depends on the individuals on our team... What we love about Raise The Bar is that they help each leader tap into their own authentic leadership style, no matter where they are on their leadership journey. It's a fantastic program and one of the best I've participated in during my long career.”
Sean Fitzpatrick
“These leaders are shining examples of living our core values and being really fearless and resilient with their team - and the coaching thru Raise The Bar has just accelerated that.”
Courtney Toomey
“My prior management style could best be described as a micromanager. Raise The Bar’s Leadership Bootcamp provided me with a framework to be a more effective leader, rather than a micromanager.”
Igor Moiseev
“It has helped me find my voice and lead passionately and fearlessly with my team and with my peers.”
Director/VP-level leader
“I've observed her leading with more curiosity, asking questions to better understand her team or a specific business need. Her confidence has improved significantly.”
Director, [solidcore]
“The most fascinating part of the program for me was the session spent on listening… it turned ideas I 'already knew' into habits I actually use. I still refer to those lessons often in my work.”
Denny Nelson
“Our partnership with Raise the Bar helped elevate our leadership team from great to exceptional... RTB has made us stronger, more connected, and better equipped to lead together.”
Alice Raflores
“This program teaches a leadership style that fits with the vision and culture of our organization extremely well. I like that everyone we move into a leadership role gets this foundation from which to build.”
Matt Boldyga
“Raise The Bar had a significant impact on my leadership skills and how I manage people. I continue to reap the benefits of the goal you helped me distill down: "to see the power in communication.”
Parker Pedersen
“The Bootcamp has given me the confidence to embrace uncertainty, an essential skill in a fast growing startup like mine, where we are building processes and initiatives from the ground up.”
Jennifer Valdez
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