About Barking Lamb
Let's turn messy work into practical systems.
Barking Lamb helps business owners turn scattered tools, customer workflows, and back-office processes into systems that are clear, useful, and easy to run.
Robert Hansen
Founder, Barking Lamb SolutionsWho You Work With
A systems builder with executive experience.
I have spent more than 25 years inside small and midsize businesses, growing from hands-on contributor to executive leader while building systems, leading across functions, and learning how work actually moves across a company.
The job has changed over time. The work has not: make the handoffs between finance, operations, HR, payroll, IT, and engineering easy to see, easy to run, and easy to trust.
years connecting engineering, finance, operations, HR, payroll, and IT into working systems
honest conversations, clear decisions, and no unnecessary process
automation with human checkpoints where judgment still matters
How I Work
Now, next, later.
My project management style is simple: what matters now, what comes next, and what can wait. That keeps the handoffs between departments honest. It also keeps teams from hiding behind process when what they need is a decision.
AI, With Humans In The Loop
Automate the repeatable. Review the important.
AI should reduce drag without removing responsibility.
The work often starts by asking what a fully automated system would require, then deciding where human judgment still matters. That question is useful because it forces clarity. In most businesses, automation works best when software handles the routine work and people stay close to decisions that affect money, teams, or customers.
The Name
Midwest roots. Southern California palm trees. Two excellent dogs.
I grew up in the Midwest and moved to Southern California for the weather and the palm trees.
My husband and I are pet parents to Isaac and Henry, two wonderful dogs. Isaac inspired the Barking Lamb name because everyone keeps telling us he looks like a lamb.
Values
Transparent. Efficient. Simple.
Say the real thing plainly.
Build systems people can operate, audit, and trust.
Improve what already works.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."
Theodore Roosevelt