Helping leaders and rising talent escape workarounds and build careers that work, backed by nearly four decades in executive search and leadership development.
Speaking
Need a leadership speaker who moves teams from workarounds to action? Sherrie’s keynotes replace vague expectations with a repeatable framework. People speak up sooner, align faster, and stop duplicating effort.
Podcast
Looking for a podcast guest who brings clarity and practical takeaways? Sherrie shares story-driven insights on Next Gen disengagement, career growth, and the cost of workaround culture. Listeners leave with tools they can use immediately.
Books
What courageous conversation are you avoiding, and what becomes possible when you finally have it? Start with a leadership fable, then go deeper. Sherrie’s books offer story-driven guidance and spark conversations that change teams and families.
Sherrie Barch
Helping leaders and rising talent escape workarounds and build careers that work, backed by nearly four decades in executive search and leadership development.
Speaking
Need a leadership speaker who moves teams from workarounds to action? Sherrie’s keynotes replace vague expectations with a repeatable framework. People speak up sooner, align faster, and stop duplicating effort.
Podcast
Looking for a podcast guest who brings clarity and practical takeaways? Sherrie shares story-driven insights on Next Gen disengagement, career growth, and the cost of workaround culture. Listeners leave with tools they can use immediately.
Books
What courageous conversation are you avoiding, and what becomes possible when you finally have it? Start with a leadership fable, then go deeper. Sherrie’s books offer story-driven guidance and spark conversations that change teams and families.
Meet Sherrie Barch
Helping leaders and rising talent escape workarounds and build careers that work.
Sherrie Barch is the CEO and cofounder of Furst Group and NuBrick Partners, where she has spent four decades placing senior executives and advising organizations through growth, transition, and succession. Over thousands of leadership conversations, she began to see the same pattern repeat itself. Organizations and careers do not usually stall because people stop caring. They stall when clarity breaks down, difficult conversations are avoided, and workarounds start doing the job leadership was meant to do.
That pattern became the foundation for Sherrie’s Three Buckets framework, shaped by her experience as a CEO and sharpened through years of organizational development work. Centered on roles and responsibilities, goals and planning, and workarounds, the framework gives leaders a practical way to diagnose breakdowns, reduce misalignment, and strengthen the systems people rely on every day. Today, Sherrie brings that work to executive teams, boards, and audiences with a direct, human-centered style that helps people name what is off, restore alignment, and move from avoidance to ownership.
As a speaker and author, Sherrie extends these ideas beyond the C-suite and boardroom. Her forthcoming book, Escaping the Workaround Bucket, is a leadership fable for early-career professionals and the leaders developing them, grounded in her belief that strong leadership foundations begin long before a title signals authority. She is also one of the authors of Unstoppable, inspired by her family’s experience navigating her two sons’ Type 1 diabetes diagnoses and the courageous conversations that followed. She is the author of the Amazon bestselling Heaven’s Bell series, work that reflects her long-standing belief that growth begins when people are willing to face the conversations most want to avoid.
Sherrie holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business communication, serves on the board of a global search firm, sits on the Council of the Americas for the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants, and is a member of CHIEF. Across her writing, speaking, and company leadership, she remains focused on one outcome: helping people and organizations build the clarity, courage, and leadership capacity needed to move forward well.
Coming Soon!
Escaping the Workaround Bucket:
A Next Gen Leadership Fable,
How to Lead Yourself and Others
You weren’t hired to fix broken systems.
You were hired to solve an organizational problem, and perhaps even lead projects or people, but the real challenge — you must be able to lead yourself first.