We are all made up of multiple identities: professional, cultural, personal and more… Defining our stories, visions and ambitions, and creating
meaning in our lives is not simple, but this is where Barbara Mattison comes in.
Our life paths are punctuated by endless, ongoing intersections and choices, in the quest for our “place” at work, at home, and in an increasingly
complex society.
Helping teams
Helping people, organizations and teams to develop their competencies and impact both locally and globally is Barbara’s particular focus and she has impacted companies and individuals across the globe deeply and enduringly for the past thirty years.
Outstanding decoder
Your needs and objectives will be analyzed by someone whose listening skills come from her own multicultural life experience, making her an outstanding decoder of our globalized world.
Developing potential
Her training and coaching sessions bring together a strong sense of pedagogy, dynamism and fun. They are designed to explore and develop individual and team potential, aiming to help them achieve their goals for action and performance as well as keeping in mind their self-realization.

International trainer and psychoanalyst
At 17
By her own admission, Barbara has been a trainer since she was
seventeen years old when she gave English classes to a French
baker who wanted to set up in California!
At 20
By the age of twenty, she was supporting West African workers
with literacy skills.
At Present
Since then, she has never stopped in her quest to develop humans.
Work
Whatever the focus, global or local, Barbara will pull on the most appropriate resource she has to support your development.
She has a genuine commitment to making the world a better place, by working with individuals and teams, to figure out whatever challenges they are facing, in particular when these involve cultures, intersections, and the opportunity to create confidence, understanding and broadened minds.
Clients
In over thirty years, Barbara has created new visions and progress for a multitude of companies, not all of which cannot be portrayed here, but
here is a selection:






Testimonials
Her feedback and ratings are consistently excellent and the below is only a tiny selection of praise Barbara has received over the years:
Resources
Barbara’s work is rich in influence as well as in
terms of her own creations. Below she shares
both products of her own as well as those that
have colored her journey.

Film: Working with the French, Palmis TV
Barbara’s influences
Ideas & events
Bilingualism in the family
Bilingualism in the family Come and talk with other parents about our children and their bilingualism (in French). Paris, Café la Contrescarpe 16th March 2019
Orientation and the Orient
Orientation and the Orient About Compass, by Mathieu Esnard, Actes Sud, 2015 (In English, Fitzcarraldo Editions,2017) I recently came across a book for which I didn’t understand the title till I had finished it. Compass, by Mathieu Esnard, the 2015 Goncourt prize,...
Round table about expatriation
Round table about expatriation Sharing ideas and tips about expatriating with your family. Ieseg Paris-La Défense, on 21st March 2019