Barbara J. Linney is a consultant specializing in leadership development. She was ACPE’s vice president of career development for 22 years.

She is known for her work in career counseling, management development, and communications training. Linney’s background includes one-on-one coaching, seminar presentations, published articles, and college-level teaching. She is author of the books A Career Guide for Physician Executives (2006); Turn Your Face: How to be heard and get what you want most of the time (2009); and co-author of the book Physician Executives: What, why, how, (2000) second edition.

Linney speaks on topics such as improving interpersonal communications, conflict management, delivering effective presentations, conducting effective meetings and writing for executives. She is a graduate of the University of Richmond in Virginia and earned her master's degree at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.