About Bara

Bara Sapir, CEO of MindFlow and City Test Prep is an expert coach and master educator with over 30 years of experience teaching test preparation and test anxiety relief. She is a pioneer in the test prep industry with a mindful test-taking modality only available at City Test Prep, and now, through Leland. Bara taught test prep for six years as an instructor for The Princeton Review, was a solopreneur for several years then opened her test prep company, City Test Prep (2005). She and her team of test experts, provide individualized tutoring and ensure their clients score their best by fully addressing the four pillars of test-taking success: - Content Mastery - Test Taking Strategy - Time Management (through accelerated reading methods) - Optimal Mindset She starts with an initial conversation, intake and evaluation of a diagnostic test. Each study plan addresses each student's unique needs, improving weak areas and meeting their goals, schedule, and timeline. Optimal Mindset Sapir initiated bringing mindful and holistic techniques to the test preparation study regime, work similar to that of sports psychologists working with world-class athletes. She helps students reduce anxiety and enhance concentration, confidence, and ease. These full potential tools are drawn from hypnosis, Neuro-linguistic programming, mindfulness, bilateral stimulation, Tapping, EMDR, peripheral vision, sound therapy, growth mindset, integrated life coaching, reframing, and more self-actualization modalities. As students optimize their test-taking experience, they perform better , and earn higher scores. Sessions are customized to each student's needs. Bara has coached hundreds of clients including: - Students who were accepted to leading high schools, boarding schools, universities, and boarding schools, such as Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, INSEAD, London School of Business, Northwestern, Stanford, University of Chicago, UCLA, UC-Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania. - Physicians taking high-level medical boards - Leading entertainment and advertising professionals - Advisors to U.S. government leaders - Executives at Fortune 500 companies Bara’s expertise has been featured in magazines and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Cosmogirl, Next Step, CNN/Fortune Magazine, The Jewish Forward, Women’s World and Positive Thinking. She has appeared on television, including CBS Bay Sunday, on the radio, including programs on National Public Radio (NPR), and is a regular speaker on webinars (Accepted.com, Forte Foundation, IECA) at conferences (IECA, HECA, AET, NTPA, AIGAC, NTA), as well as a guest speaker in schools. Bara co-wrote The Full Potential GMAT Sentence Correction Intensive, wrote The Full Potential Manual, and the upcoming Sentence Correction EA, all published by Nova Press. She created MindFlow: the Mindful Speed Reading Workshop for middle school, high school, college and for adults, offered in person monthly and as an online course. And to bring it to a wider audience, and the online training platform, MindFlow https://mindflowspeedreading.com She also created/produced the Full Potential Audio (sample on the City Test Prep website). Bara held a 3- year post on the board of directors of the National Test Prep Association, is a board member of the Networking Entrepreneurial Women of Marin (NEWofMarin), on the leadership of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC), and a co-founder and co-host on MBAWaves, a weekly program on LinkedIn Live/FaceBook and YouTube with Eric Lucrezia of Candidate Coach and author of The Getting into MBA series. Bara holds a Masters degrees in Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Art History from the University of Michigan. She has certification in Hypnosis, Neuro-linguistic Programming, Integrative Life Coaching, Counseling from Interchange, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and is a Reiki practitioner. She is a published author, professional artist and an ordained kohenet. Bara conducts workshops for students, parents, educators, business people, and creative professionals seeking high-performance results at school, work, and in life. Bara lives with her rescue pups, Chata and Murphy, foster dog Koda, and is a huge advocate for shelter/rescue dogs (https://animaladvocates.info)