Prepare Your Company’s Emerging Leaders to Succeed with NEI Instructor C. Richard Barnes

August 15, 2025

MCAA’s National Education Initiative (NEI) Seminars bring our best programs to your local association or your company thanks to instructors like C. Richard Barnes, an experienced mediator and trainer. Richard helps emerging and high potential leaders build the skills they need to succeed in mechanical contracting.

Richard is the founder and president of C. Richard Barnes & Associates, LLC, a consulting firm which provides leadership training and development, dispute resolution services, dispute resolution systems design, facilitation, coaching and negotiation skills training to a cross-section of industry, labor, private, public, and service organizations, both nationally and internationally.

Richard teaches those who attend the Leadership Access Institute (LAI) Seminars to:

  • Build field leadership
  • Manage change
  • Think critically
  • Listen actively
  • Lead focused conversations
  • Speak effectively to connect to their audience

Richard’s background makes him ideally suited to address these topics.

Like our other NEI instructors, Richard brings a unique blend of industry and teaching experience to virtual courses, a relatively new NEI offering. Providing top notch, accessible education for everyone in your organization is what the MCAA’s NEI is all about! Visit the NEI website for more information about these seminars and a full list of the NEI courses available to MCAA members.

Book your courses via the NEI website, then apply for a 20% rebate on the instructor fees, up to $5,000 per class.*

*This benefit is available only to MCAA members and local affiliates in good standing who book courses via the NEI website. Learn more about the rebate program here. Have questions or need personal assistance? Contact MCAA’s Frank Wall or call him at 301-990-2215.

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