Dr. Nicola Gaitor Barber is an educator with more than 28 years teaching experience on the elementary, middle school and high school level. She is the founder, lead consultant and author at Ultra Didactic Educational Consulting LLC specializing in Classroom Management, Staff Stress Management and Soft Skills training. With a research background she believes in utilizing research based techniques with common sense procedures.

Dr. Nicola Barber has a Doctorate in Educational Leadership, Masters of Library and Information Science and Bachelors of Arts in English. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel, cooks and spend time with friends and especially her huge Bahamian-American family. She lives with her husband Jay and morkie Asta.

Dr. Nicola believes ever school is different and to make change in our school we must first make changes within ourselves.