Richard Barrett (author)

Richard Barrett (born 7 March 1945) is a British author, coach, and artist who writes about ego-soul dynamics, leadership, leadership development, values, consciousness, and cultural evolution in business and society. He founded the Barrett Values Centre in 1997 and is currently the managing director of the Barrett Academy for the Advancement of Human Values, which he founded in 2018.

Early life and education

Richard Barrett was born on 7 March 1945, in Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. In 1966, he graduated from Manchester University with a First Class Honors degree in Civil Engineering. He received a postgraduate engineering degree in highway and transportation engineering from Newcastle University.

Career

Barrett was initially trained at the University of Manchester as a civil engineer and subsequently at the University of Newcastle as a transport engineer. After spending two years working for the City of Leicester (1969-1971) he joined Freeman Fox & Partners in London and set up their Paris office in 1973 where he worked until 1977.

He set up his own consulting practice in 1977 and consulted for the World Bank from 1979 to 1985, officially joining the Bank as a staff member in 1986. In 1992, he became the Assistant to the Vice President for Environmentally Sustainable Development and started the World Bank Spiritual Unfoldment Society. From 1995 to 1997, he investigated the World Bank's organisational values.

Throughout this period (from 1967 to 1997), Barrett spent most of his spare time studying psychology, spirituality, physics, and personal transformation. He left the World Bank in 1997 to create the international management consulting firm of Richard Barrett & Associates (which became the Barrett Values Centre in 2007).

The purpose of this organisation was to "provide consultants, change agents, and human resource professionals with tools and techniques for assessing the values of their organisations and implementing cultural transformation."

Works overview

In 1995, he published A Guide to Liberating Your Soul.  In 1998, he published Liberating the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organisation, in which he described the Seven Levels of Consciousness model and the values mapping instruments known as the Cultural Transformation Tools. He also introduced the concept of the Seven Levels of Leadership Consciousness.

From 2005 to 2007, he spearheaded an inquiry into Whole System Change in organisations.The results of this inquiry are presented in Building a Values-driven Organisation: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation, published in 2006. In this book, he shows how the cultural transformation tools based on the seven levels of consciousness model have been used to transform the cultures of organisations in Australia, South Africa, Canada, and the USA. He also introduced the concepts of cultural and personal entropy, showing how they could be measured.

Barrett wrote, "... organisational transformation begins with the personal transformation of the leaders. Organisations don’t transform; people do.” “Making money and making a difference are mutually supportive goals. When companies care about their employees, the local community and society, their employees, the local community and society care about them. In other words, the quality of the energy you put into the world is the energy you get back."

From 2006 to 2024, Barrett wrote fourteen books. In The New Leadership Paradigm, published in 2011, he developed a program for leading the self, leading a team, leading an organisation, and leading society. Other concepts introduced in this book include the Seven Levels of Motivation, The Seven Levels of Identity, the Seven Levels of Happiness, and the Six Modes of Decision-Making.

In Love, Fear and the Destiny of Nations, published in 2010, he discussed the impact of the evolution of worldviews on world affairs. In What My Soul Told Me, published in 2011, he described the five steps to soul activation. In Evolutionary Coaching, published in 2014, he introduced a coaching process based on the Seven Stages of Psychological Development. In A New Psychology of Human Well-Being, published in 2015, he introduced the concept of ego-soul dynamics as an approach to mental health. In The Values-Driven Organization, published in 2017, he showed how cultural health and employee well-being were the pathways to sustainable performance.

In The Evolutionary Human, published in 2018, he introduced the concept of evolutionary intelligence and the three universal stages of evolution. In Everything I Have Learned About Values, also published in 2018, he provided a detailed overview of the importance of values in decision-making. In Worldview Dynamics and the Consciousness of Nations, published in 2019, he showed examples of how the seven levels of consciousness model could be used to map the values of nations. In many of these nations, the results of the values assessments have been used to begin nationwide dialogues on values. In Latvia and Iceland, the results of the values assessments have been instrumental in helping to form public policies. In Soul-Centred Living, published in 2014, a year before his 80th birthday, he presented a deeply personal exploration of the journey to living a soul-centred life.

Published works

*Soul-Centred Living: From Survival to Service (2024)
*Worldview Dynamics and the Well-Being of Nations (2020);
*Everything I Have Learned About Values (2018);
*The Values-Driven Organization: Cultural Health and Employee Well-Being as a Pathway to Sustainable Performance (2017);
*A New Psychology of Human Well-Being: An Exploration of the Influence of Ego-Soul Dynamics on Mental and Physical Health (2016);
*The Metrics of Human Consciousness (2015);
*Evolutionary Coaching: A Values-Based Approach to Unleashing Human Potential (2014);
*The Values-Driven Organization: Unleashing Human Potential for Performance and Profit (2013);
*What My Soul Told Me: A Practical Guide Soul Activation (2012);
*Love, Fear and the Destiny of Nations: The Impact of the Evolution of Human Consciousness on World Affairs (2012)
*The New Leadership Paradigm: Leading in Society Journal & Workbook (2011);
*The New Leadership Paradigm: Leading an organisation Journal & Workbook (2011);
*The New Leadership Paradigm: Leading a Team Journal & Workbook (2011);
*The New Leadership Paradigm (9 January 2010);
*Building a Values Driven Organization: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation Butterworth-Heinemann; 1 edition (2006)
*Building a Values-Driven Organization: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation (2006)
*Liberating the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organization Butterworth-Heinemann; 1 edition (5 November 1998)
*A Guide to Liberating Your Soul Fulfilling Books (1995);

References

Further reading

The Workplace and Spirituality: New Perspectives on Research and Practice
By Joan Marques, Satinder Dhiman, Richard King
*Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose – the Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership (4th Edition) (People Skills for Professionals) John Whitmore
*Peak by Chip Conley
*The Chrysalis Economy: How Citizen CEOs and Corporations Can Fuse Values and Value Creation by John Elkington
*Get Connected: Culture projects at Volvo by Tor Eneroth, Per Hellsten, Sasha Hamilton
*The Spirit at Work Phenomenon by Sue Howard, David Welbourn
*Get Your Groove Back: How to Get the Work and Life You Really Want by Jasbinder Singh
The Spirit-Led Organization
By Sandy Smyth
Transformation Management: Towards the Integral Enterprise
By Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer
Spirituality, Inc: Religion in the American Workplace
By Lake Lambert, III
Transforming Learning: Introducing SEAL Approaches
By Susan Norman
Quantum leadership: a Textbook of New Leadership
By Timothy Porter-O'Grady, Kathy Malloch
Spirituality and Business: Exploring Possibilities for a New Management Paradigm
By Sharda Shirley Nandram, Margot Esther Borden
The Supply Management Handbook
By Joseph L. Cavinato, Anna E. Flynn, Ralph G. Kauffman
Leadership Roles for Librarians
By Herbert E. Cihak, Joan S. Howland, American Association of Law Libraries
The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit
By Nat Stoddard, Claire Wyckoff
The Leadership Genius of George W. Bush: 10 Commonsense Lessons from the Commander and Chief
By Carolyn B. Thompson, James W. Ware, Jim Ware
The Workplace Revolution: Restoring Trust in Business and Bringing Meaning in Our Work
By Matthew Gilbert
Psychometrics in coaching: Using Psychological and Psychometric Tools for Development
by Jonathan Passmore
The Leader's Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success
By Jim Clemmer
Leading with Life
By Matthias zur Bonsen
Values Webster Unabridged Bibliography 1996
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Architectural Research Methods
By Linda N. Groat, David Wang
12 Step Wisdom at Work: Transforming Your Life and Your Organization
By William C. Hammond
Sang Pemimpin
By Jim Clemmer
Investment Leadership: Building a Winning Culture for Long Term Success
By Jim Ware, Beth Michaels, Dale Primer
High Performing Investment Teams: How to Achieve Best Practices of Top Firms
By Jim Ware, Jim Dethmer, Jamie Ziegler
Creating Authenticity: Meaningful Questions for the Minds & Souls of Leaders of Today, Volume 2
By Greg Giesen
The Entrepreneur & the Entrepreneurship Cycle
By Roberto Flören
New Horizons In Indian Managements
By Pragya M. Kumar Krishna Mohan Mathur, Shiv Shubhang Mathur Nandita Narayan Mathur
Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work: 101 Stories of Courage, Compassion and Creativity in the Workplace
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Maida Rogerson, Martin Rutte, Tim Clauss
The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence
By Verna Allee
Human Resources in the 21st Century
By Marc Effron, Marshall Goldsmith, Robert Gandossy
Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results
By Paul R. Niven
Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step for Government and Nonprofit Agencies
By Paul R. Niven
Strategic Planning and Management for Library Managers
By Joseph R. Matthews
The Business of Sustainable Cities: Public-Private Partnerships for Creative Technical and Institutional Solutions
edited by Ismail Serageldin, Richard Barrett, Joan Martin-Brown
The Stakeholder Strategy: Profiting From Collaborative Business Relationships
By Ann Svendsen
Beyond Cultures: Perceiving a Common Humanity : Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, III
By Kwame Gyekye
Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit
By Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, Iwan Setiawan
Healing Presence: The Essence of Nursing
By JoEllen Goertz Koerner
Pervasive Collaborative Networks: Ifip Tc 5 Wg 5. 5 Ninth Working Conference ...
By Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Willy Picard

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1945 births
British writers
Living people
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Alumni of Newcastle University