Heather Barber

Heather Barber

Founder, Buy-Scale-Sell

Sandy, Utah

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Speaker levelCareer Speaker

Primary sectorsEducation (K-12 / higher ed) · Media, marketing & communications

Utah focusYes

About

Heather Griffith Barber—the Queen of Wraps turned business Chaos Tamer, Scaling Guru, and Exit Strategist—co-founded Utah’s largest vehicle wrap company at 23, not out of love for cars, but an obsession with turning ideas into empires. Through Buy-Scale-Sell, she now empowers entrepreneurs to scale businesses into life-changing exits. Author of That’s a Wrap: Strategies for Anchoring and Achieving Your Goals from the Queen, Heather’s big audacious five-year mission is to create 100 millionaires through strategic exits, with a focus on elevating 20 women in the process. Kingdoms aren’t built alone.

Speaking formats

Experience level

Career Speaker

Career speaker (speaking is a primary professional activity)

Topics & expertise

Civic & Community

  • Community organizing & coalition building
  • Nonprofit leadership & governance
  • Serving on boards & commissions

Communication & Storytelling

  • Communicating with frontline employees
  • Communicating with senior leaders / boards
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Difficult conversations & feedback
  • Digital presence & thought leadership (LinkedIn, etc.)
  • Executive presence (online & in-room)
  • Media training & interviews
  • Personal brand & visibility
  • Public speaking & presentation skills
  • Storytelling for leaders
  • Storytelling with data

Culture/HR & Talent

  • Coaching & mentoring programs
  • Employee engagement & retention
  • Employer brand & employee experience
  • Handling burnout, morale dips & “quiet quitting”
  • Learning & development / leadership pipelines
  • Organizational change & transformation
  • Performance reviews & goal setting (OKRs, KPIs, etc.)
  • Psychological safety & belonging at work
  • Workplace culture design

Entrepreneurship & Startups

  • Building an executive team as a founder
  • Exit strategies (acquisition, IPO, succession)
  • Family-owned / closely held businesses
  • Founder mental health & resilience
  • Scaling a startup / growth stage
  • Social entrepreneurship & mission-driven ventures
  • Starting a business
  • Women founders & access to capital

Functional Expertise

  • Customer success & account management
  • Marketing & brand strategy
  • Operations & process improvement
  • Product management / product marketing
  • Sales & business development

Gender & Equity

  • Inclusive leadership practices
  • Intersectionality (race, gender, class, etc.)
  • Men as allies
  • Motherhood, caregiving & careers
  • Pay equity & negotiation
  • Return-to-work / re-entry after career breaks
  • Sponsorship, mentorship & allyship
  • Women in leadership / closing the leadership gap
  • Women on boards & commissions
  • “Prove-it-again” bias & promotion barriers

Industry Expertise

  • Education (K-12 / higher ed)
  • Media, marketing & communications

Leadership & Management

  • Board governance & board relations
  • Building high-performing teams
  • C-suite readiness
  • Conflict resolution & mediation
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Decision-making & accountability
  • Difficult conversations
  • Executive leadership
  • Giving & receiving feedback
  • Leading through change
  • People management & coaching
  • Performance management
  • Psychological safety & trust
  • Stakeholder management & influence
  • Succession planning & talent pipelines
  • Vision, strategy & execution

Strategy/Innovation & Change

  • Change management & adoption
  • Innovation and intrapreneurship
  • Product strategy & product-market fit
  • Scaling organizations (startup to growth stage)
  • Strategic planning & execution

Utah & Regional Issues

  • Faith, culture & work in Utah
  • Mountain West / regional issues
  • Utah business & economic landscape
  • Women’s leadership in Utah

Wellbeing & Personal Growth

  • Boundary-setting & saying no
  • Burnout prevention & recovery
  • Confidence, impostor syndrome & self-advocacy
  • Habit building & personal productivity
  • Mental health at work
  • Mindfulness & stress management
  • Resilience & navigating change
  • Values-based career design
  • Work–life integration

Signature talks

  • Change is Your Secret Weapon
  • Adaptability: Your Superpower
  • Why 10x Beats 2x (Every Time)
  • Unleash Your Inner Genius
  • Want Strategy That Actually Works?
  • Work With Purpose, Live With Fire
  • Failure is Fuel
  • Thrive in Chaos: Find Opportunity Everywhere

Selected engagements

  • I spent 5 weeks in Europe in summer 2025 on my book tour speaking in 9 countries about entrepreneuership, resiliance, and the future of women in business.

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