About Linda Barnby, NAE Founder

LINDA J BARNBYLinda Barnby is a multi-faceted entrepreneur and practicing attorney in Orlando, Florida.

Founding and leading the National Association of Entrepreneurs is the culmination of Linda’s years of diverse experience in small business, law, philosophy, strategic partnerships, online marketing and social media.

Before NAE

Prior to creating the National Association of Entrepreneurs, Linda has been a teacher, a lobbyist for a non-profit organization, real estate investor, certified mediator and a lawyer. As a teacher, Linda taught gifted students in public and private schools.  As a young teacher, she organized the first gifted education program in Summerville School District, near Charleston, South Carolina.

After receiving her law degree from the University of Florida, she began her legal career with the law firm of  Swann and Haddock, P.A. in Orlando, Florida. Soon thereafter she felt the pull of entrepreneurship and founded her own boutique law firm.

Linda is an active entrepreneur and maintains several diverse successful businesses.

  • She has practiced law for 20 years as a solo practitioner in her law firm, Linda J. Barnby, P.A.
  • She founded the non-profit organization, A Brave Heart Choice, for the benefit of women and children.
  • Her real estate investment and management company, Riverbend Investment Partners LLC holds and manages commercial and residential properties.

Linda currently resides in Winter Park, Florida with her husband and two daughters. She can most often be found at a lake cheering on her two daughters, Courtney, a rower in high school, and Chelsea, a full-time college student and high school crew coach.  Linda is an avid rower, kayaker and cyclist.

Linda is delighted to have heard and answered the call of entrepreneurship early in her life.  Only through entrepreneurship could she have the flexibility and autonomy to engage in so many diverse interests while enjoying and meeting the needs of her family. Entrepreneurship enables her daily to express her creativity and create a lifestyle that honors her core personal values.

Through the National Association of Entrepreneurs, and the community and resources it provides its members, Linda facilitates, mentors, trains and empowers others to create and build the business and the lifestyle of their dreams.

Work With Linda

Linda Barnby is an authority on a number of topics.

She enjoys sharing her enthusiasm to groups large and small about:

Personal Branding
Social Media Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Managing Time, Talent and Family

Her expertise, poise, and infectious enthusiasm make her an engaging public speaker.

If you would like to engage Linda for a personal appearance or to speak at an event, please contact her at: info@theNAE.org.

If you would like a private telephone or in person consultation with Linda, contact her at info@the NAE.org.

Linda is also open to potential business partnerships. Please direct all inquiries to info@theNAE.org