About Stacey Barr and PuMP

Through Evidence-Based Leadership and PuMP (the approach to practical performance measurement) we create a high-performance culture and measurable success.

This website is where I share what I’ve learned, researched, tested and created (since 1993) to make strategic and operational performance measurement more practical, meaningful and engaging. I’m Stacey Barr, and I’m a specialist in performance measurement and evidence-based leadership.

Evidence-Based Leadership and PuMP directly address the most common struggles we have with performance measurement and KPIs.

Irrespective of their industry, sector, size or culture, it’s apparent that everyone has very similar struggles with performance measurement. They can’t find meaningful measures that align to strategy, they can’t measure intangible goals, they can’t get staff engaged in measuring and improving performance.

These most common struggles are confirmed over and over again, from the many thousands of people who contact me, contract me, or subscriber to my newsletter, Measure Up.

I began working in the organisational performance measurement field in the mid-1990s. Since then, I’ve learned that the causes for these struggles are the long-held beliefs and bad habits people have in measuring performance. So what I do is to challenge these beliefs and habits, and help people replace them with practices that work. These practices became the PuMP methodology.

End your KPI struggles with a deliberate approach.

On this site you’ll find lots of practical tips, techniques and templates for better performance measurement, evidence-based leadership, and creating a high-performance culture. There is plenty of free information to tweak your current approach. And if you want much better performance measures much faster, you’ll also find information about our courses and programs and licensed PuMP Partners to make it faster and easier for you.

If you have questions, please just ask me: [email protected]. We will get back to you in a day or so.

Stacey Barr
the Performance Measure Specialist