There's a Better Way to Lead
Raise The Bar is shaping the future of work by helping leaders build habits that enable companies to evolve and grow—one habit at a time.
We don’t just teach leadership—we help your people build the habits that drive performance across your entire organization.
Where Great Leadership Thrives
Our leadership trainings jumpstart growth with high-impact development experiences that help both seasoned and emerging leaders build habits and skills that stick.
Coaching That Drives Real Change
Support your leaders and executives with personalized, expert coaching to build habits, strengthen presence, and accelerate growth individually or in peer-based, small groups.
Unlock High-Performing Teams
Build a foundation of trust, accountability, and shared leadership habits 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.
Justine Katherine Askew
Justine’s approach is open, calm, curious, considered and intuitive. From working on her own personal development and supporting clients with theirs, Justine has learned that if we have the desire and are willing to put in the work, we can make our lives better.
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 really enjoy the Practice Labs. I’ve been making more use of powerful questions to solicit my direct reports’ thoughts and to guide others.”
Nancy Shalowitz
“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
“I started working with Aaron and Raise The Bar because I wanted to grow my business and grow as a CEO and leader. Aaron helped me get clear on the actions I needed to take to grow.”
Sarah Perkins
“I learned not only the content we covered, but I learned so much based on how my coach made me feel as we went through our journey together.”
Sean Fitzpatrick
“Fleur de Vries is the absolute best! I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with her as my coach. Her ability to challenge my perspectives and push me out of my comfort zone was so incredibly valuable!”
Tracy Roth
“Lauren was such a pleasure to work with. It is evidently clear that coaching is her calling. Her empathy, patience, and subject matter knowledge are all unmatched.”
Trenton Lovell
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