The Coaches

Barbara and Allan Kenyon have worked together since 1989, helping thousands of people live happier, more productive lives.
The Kenyon “YOU-focused” coaching style means you develop skills you can use long after coaching to understand yourself, identify stumbling blocks, define your goals, and create plans to move forward with confidence and high energy.
Barbara’s unique coaching process leverages her exceptional background in coaching, counseling, business development, and life skills training – and delivers coaching services with the highest integrity, objectivity, and compassion.
Group Workshops
In addition to highly focused, customized individual coaching, Kenyon Coaching offers their acclaimed “Fire Up Your Life!” workshops for conferences and retreats. Barbara’s style is dynamic, enthusiastic, and humorous, which keeps audiences engaged and motivated.
Participants gain practical skills and solid strategies to help them reach their goals and get more out of life. Each workshop is tailored to the needs of your organization – to help you fine tune the productivity and satisfaction of your group.
Barbara Kenyon
Your Coach
My passion is empowering people to deal effectively with both personal and business challenges on their own terms, according to their distinctive personal style and background. As a professional coach I deeply enjoy helping leaders achieve clarity, build courage, overcome obstacles, and commit to concrete actions that help them reach their goals. My coaching style is professional and process-based, yet down-to-earth, intuitive, sensitive, and supportive.
My Clients
Business owners, executives, sales professionals, attorneys, accountants, military personnel, teachers, college students, adults with ADHD, retirees, widows and widowers, dressage competitors, and people in transition.
Education & Experience
Certified coach with the International Coach Federation
Certified graduate of Coach U Training
Master’s degree in counseling from the University of Arizona
10 years’ experience as a social worker and manager
Trainer and coach with Seminars and Training Systems
Certified graduate of Coach U Training
Master’s degree in counseling from the University of Arizona
10 years’ experience as a social worker and manager
Trainer and coach with Seminars and Training Systems
Areas of Specialization
Professional achievement, people skills, public speaking, confidence building, new career selection, interviewing skills, assertiveness training, organization skills, money management, stress reduction, grief/bereavement, retirement preparation, relationship coaching
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Allan Kenyon
Cofounder
Barbara Kenyon’s husband/partner, Allan Kenyon, co-created Kenyon Coaching to help people become their own best resource. For many years Allan studied what makes things click for clients as he coached people with a wide variety of both professional and personal needs. He helped forge the Kenyon Coaching style to help clients clear away confusion, set priorities, and reach their potential as quickly as possible. He now serves as an organizational partner, helping maintain Kenyon Coaching’s premier suite of coaching tools.
Education & Experience
Coach training from Coach Training Institute
Training in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) with NLP Comprehensive
20 Years as a Certified Instructor/Coach for Dale Carnegie Training
Owner, trainer, and coach with Seminars and Training Systems
Training in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) with NLP Comprehensive
20 Years as a Certified Instructor/Coach for Dale Carnegie Training
Owner, trainer, and coach with Seminars and Training Systems
Areas of Specialization
Leadership development, people skills, public speaking, confidence building, new career selection, sales skills, team building, assertiveness training, organizational skills, stress reduction