The right ideas deserve to be executed.
You don’t need more ideas—you need to bring the right ones to life.
I’m Dr. Vanity: wife, mother of four sons, U.S. Air Force veteran, and founder of multiple award-winning businesses.
With a Ph.D. in Business and a career rooted in leadership, entrepreneurship, and personal clarity, I blend academic depth with lived experience. I understand the tension between ambition and responsibility—between pressure and peace—because I navigate it myself.
I mentor individuals who are ready to lead themselves, sharpen their vision, and actually execute.
About Me
Across every chapter of my life—military service, entrepreneurship, motherhood, marriage, and academic study—I’ve learned that clarity is the most powerful tool any of us can have. It has shaped how I lead, how I build, and how I make decisions. My work today is centered on helping others create that same clarity so they can move with purpose, direction, and confidence in every part of their lives.
Portfolio Builder
I am the founder of VANBAR Holdings, a diverse small-business ecosystem.
BG5 Career & Business Design Consultant
I help individuals unlock the mechanics of how they are designed to work, lead, and succeed.
Strategic
Leadership
I specialize in providing clarity, structure, and operational strength across multiple industries and at multiple scales.
Doctor of Philosophy in Business
My work is grounded in academic research and proven through real-world strategy, leadership, and organizational performance.
BG5™ CAREER DESIGN
What If Your Career Was Actually Designed for You?
BG5™ Career Design helps you understand how you're built to operate—how you work, make decisions, respond to pressure, and move through life. It gives you a clear read on yourself so you stop fighting your own nature and start working with it.
Every person has a unique Career Design made up of Success Codes that show what comes naturally, where you get stuck, and what supports your best results. It also reveals where you've taken on habits and expectations that don’t actually belong to you.
how to WORK WITH me
Career Design Overview
$250
60 minutes
A focused introduction to your BG5™ Career Design.
You’ll discover the top six Success Codes that reveal how you work, decide, and create results
• Career Type
• Decision-Making Strategy
• Public Role
• Team Role
• Key Business Skills
• Environment Style
Your 6 Success Codes include:
Full Career Design Analysis
90 minutes + personalized summary
$350
A complete 16-code Career Blueprint that maps how you’re designed to lead, contribute, and sustain long-term success.
Your 16 Success Codes reveal:
• Everything from the Overview
• Life Work Theme
• General Thematic Role
• Conditioning Influences
• Distractions
• Assimilation Style
Implementation Plan (PDF or video)
Private Mentorship
Custom Rate
Structured, strategic one-on-one mentorship for individuals ready to execute with alignment.
You’ll receive:
• Ongoing strategy sessions
• Intentional systems that free your time
• Real-time access + accountability
• Leadership and personal alignment support
Buy My JOURNAL
Life doesn’t hand you instructions; it hands you experiences.
Across these reflections, Dr. Vanity C. Barr-Little invites you to examine your life as it is, make sense of your experiences, and consider what they reveal about who you are and who you’re becoming.
Each field note pairs personal insight with practical wisdom, offering perspective you can apply to your life, your work, and the way you move through the world.
This is a contemplative journal—something to sit with, think through, and compare with your own lived notes about life and the choices that shape it.
Leadership isn’t a business word—it’s a life word. All leadership begins with leading yourself first.
The real work of living well is recognizing the lessons life is teaching you and letting those lessons refine how you live.
Field Notes: Short Reflections on Life is now available on Amazon.
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Be the CEO of You
Most people are living in reaction mode—responding to whatever comes next, repeating patterns that don’t serve them, and carrying identities shaped by old conditioning. This keynote is about ending that cycle for good.
“Be the CEO of You” teaches what it means to take ownership of your decisions, your energy, and your direction—so you can step into who you were designed to become and lead a life that feels honest, intentional, and truly your own.
This is not motivation.
This is a strategic intervention.
It’s direct, practical, and built for audiences who are tired of drifting and ready to operate with clarity and purpose.
In this keynote, Dr. Vanity Barr-Little helps audiences:
understand why they’ve been operating from habit, fear, or conditioning
identify the roles, expectations, and patterns that keep them small or stuck
build personal systems that make it easier to live the life they actually want
lead themselves through work, family, ambition, transitions, and everyday life with a clear sense of direction
The Outcome
Attendees leave with a practical self-leadership framework that works in real life.
They walk away knowing exactly what to begin, what to release, and how to take responsibility for their path—so they can finally become the CEO of the only thing they can control: themselves.