The Confidence Group Company is a Dallas-Fort Worth-based firm that was founded in 2001 by Isaac Barnes II. In 2001 starting as an education organization which is now an award-winning construction firm that delivers top-tier highway striping, pavement marking, and pavement marking removal services. 

The company has performed most of its work under the open, competitive bid process, with millions of dollars of that work done for its principal client, the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT). The Confidence Group has completed millions of dollars of work making it one of the largest minority paving marking highway contractors in the United States as well as the largest in Texas. 

Chief Executive Officer, The Confidence Group

Isaac Barnes (UAPB ‘03) is the Chief Executive Officer of The Confidence Group, a distinguished DBE (Disadvantaged Business Enterprise) firm and one of the nation’s preeminent minority-owned construction companies based in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Under Mr. Barnes’s decisive leadership, The Confidence Group has rapidly established itself as a major force in the heavy civil construction sector. Since 2022, the firm has completed millions of dollars of work, making it one of the largest minority paving marking highway contractors in the United States and the largest in Texas. His commitment to excellence and strategic execution is the driving force behind the company’s rapid success and industry standing.