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Barbara Kent has had a lifelong love of quotations and a fascination with the messages of those who have achieved success. From an early age, some of her favorite authors included Dale Carnegie, Og Mandino, Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone, Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Collier, to name a few. In recent years she has enjoyed the likes of Anthony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Oprah Winfrey. These are her Masters. These are her role models. She spent her career in Human Resources and is credentialed as an SPHR (Senior Professional Human Resources) and CELS (Certified Employment Law Specialist). She is the past Director of Human Resources for several prestigious organizations including the former Lazar Levine & Felix (Parente Beard), Salibello & Broder, CPAs, and the corporate law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she spent ten years as a Senior Manager.
Someone once said working in Human Resources is like the emotionally drained being chased by the emotionally starved. It definitely does require the ability to motivate and inspire others while maintaining the highest level of personal enthusiasm and optimism. Reading the positive and uplifting books by these authors had a lot to do with my ability to maintain my upbeat attitude when the going got tough.
Barbara always loved rhyme, limericks and lyrics. Her favorite wordsmith, besides Shakespeare and Gilbert & Sullivan is Stephen Sondheim. “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. His skin was pale and his eye was odd. He shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again.” Sheer genius.
In her debut work, SUCCESS In the Words of the Masters, Barbara has created, as one person described “…a tightly woven tapestry of two favorites: Success and Quotations”.
She is close to completing a book of original limericks about news and current events from her Twitter account @LimerickLover. The working title is “ I Think I Shall Move to Nigeria”.
Barbara was born in Brooklyn, NY where she still lives with her husband Mike, two cats and a dog.
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