Bob is a unique authority at work; he’s personally responded to over 50,000 emails from employees, bosses and entrepreneurs. He’s a best selling author, internationally syndicated columnist and a guy who has taken a bullet or two in the course of his career. He’s founded three corporations and served for four years as an Adjunct Professor to MBA students.

Syndicated weekly columns:

• Working Wounded is entering it’s 10th year. The column currently is carried by the LA Times, ABCnews.com, Globe and Mail.com, Philippine Daily Inquirer, etc. It has also appeared in SF Chronicle, NY Daily News, Costco Connection, etc.
• Working Wounded Blog is a new weekly column that appears exclusively at ABCnews.com.

HONORS:

• Sigma Delta Chi Award for Professional Journalists, 1980.
• Bob was presented the Surgeon General’s Medallion by C. Everett Koop.
• University of Puget Sound Commencement Speaker, 1989.

Media:

• Appearances on NPR’s Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation and Marketplace Business Reports
• Additional print Appearances: People Magazine, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Readers Digest, Glamour, Business Week, etc.
• TV Appearances: “60 Minutes,” CBC, BBC, CNN, Fox, ZDF, Good Morning America, etc.

Books:

• Gray Matters: The Workplace Survival Guide (Wiley, 2004). A Knight Ridder best seller that has been translated and published in Korean, Thai and Taiwan.
• The Boss’s Survival Guide (McGraw Hill, 2001). An Amazon and Wall Street Journal best seller that has been translated and published in Korean and China.
• Working Wounded: Advice that adds insight to injury (Warner, 1998). Translated and published in Taiwan, Turkey, China and the U.K.

Presentations:

• Bob has been a featured keynote speaker across the United States and in England, Canada, Scotland, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.
• His audiences include major corporations and association meetings for HR, Health Care, Military, Technology, Real Estate, Banking, Government, Media and Education professionals.
  

Research:

• Bob has conducted a weekly poll at ABCnews.com for the last eight years.
  

VIDEO:

• Bob is developing a series of corporate training videos on a wide variety of business topics.

Education:

• University of Puget Sound, BS in Occupational Therapy, 1980.
• University of Washington, Executive MBA program, MBA in 1992.

PERSONAL:

• Bob is the proud father of two girls, thirteen years old and two and a half.
• He lives in Seattle, WA but with over 2.7 million frequent flyer miles the chances are that he’s not sure what city he’s in at any particular time.
  

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