Donna Barker Communications

Seeing the forest through the trees
Thank you a million times over for your help, I couldn’t have done this proposal without you, Donna! You’ve taught us to look at our program and ourselves in a whole new light, and we really like what we see… Thank you for that gift.

Sheila Adcock, Trail Career Development Services

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Rare combination of skills
Donna is real pro: she tackles every project with enthusiasm and follows through on her commitments. She has a rare combination of intellectual curiosity, strategic skill and flexibility that are essential to finding creative solutions to communication challenges.

Cathy Beaumont, Principal, Mainstay Consulting

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Passion
Donna is passionate about helping organizations improve their communications. She really knows her stuff, is very easy to work with and consistently delivers excellent results. I would definitely hire her again.

Kevin Ronaghan, former Executive Director, Centre for Sustainability
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Structure out of chaos
Donna’s ability to create structure out of chaos and to translate spoken ideas into coherent text was a key strength in the completion of our project within the short timeframe we had available. She does not become personally attached to her writing, significantly easing the editing phase and effectively using an iterative process for best results.

Scott Hughes, Director, Community Business Banking, Vancity
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Your inner cavewoman may be keeping you awake

My health column for the September issue of sharedVISION Magazine.

When I was a kid I was quite jealous of my mom. She was narcoleptic and could fall asleep anywhere and at any time (although not always by choice!). Myself, I fall asleep easily enough (OK, as long as the room is perfectly dark and dead quiet), but I rarely sleep through till morning, waking up at between 2 and 3 am most nights. I don’t really consider this a problem, since my partner has a similar sleep pattern. He’s good company at 2 am.
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