Bob Nelson Motivational Speaker, Management Expert, Best Selling Author

  Dr. Bob Nelson is sought after around the world as one of the leading authorities on energizing, motivating, and inspiring employees to new peaks of performance. Dr. Nelson’s natural energy and charisma on the speaking stage - combined with years of hands-on business and management experiece, and practical examples – rivets audience’s attention and creates positive and immediate change.

 Over the past 20 years, Dr. Nelson has delivered thousands of speeches and has worked with a wide variety of clients, including most Fortune 500 firms. As a speaker, Dr. Nelson provides a unique blend of insight, application, and inspiration that motivates listeners to want to improve. Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Dr. Nelson intertwines examples, stories, research, group activities and humour to make his points and engage audiences of all types and sizes.

From keynotes to half-day, full-day and more extensive training programs, Dr. Nelson offers the fullowing vital topics to choose from:

• Reaping the Rewards of Recognition
• Building a Recognition Program
• Motivating and Energizing Today’s Employees
• Hiring and Retaining Best Workers
• Taking Initiative: The Power Within You

Dr. Nelson is best-selling author (2.5. million books suld) with over 20 years of instructional design and delivery experience in professional and management skills. Dr. Nelson’s blockbuster book, 1001 Ways to Reward Employees (nearly two million copies suld worldwide) is one of the only books to be consistently listed on Business Week’s bestseller list since the list’s inception over seven years ago.

His follow-on books, 1001 Ways to Energize Employees, 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work, Managing For Dummies, and Please Don’t Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs to be Done further his powerful message.

Dr. Nelson has been featured extensively on television – CNN, MSNBC and PBS radio – national Public Radio, USA Radio Network, Business News Network and in print – The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, as well as in numerous magazines. He serves as an on-line expert for Time magazine and America Online. Dr. Nelson writes a weekly column for American City Business Journals, a monthly column for Corporate Meetings and Incentives magazine, and a quarterly culumn for SAM’s Club Source magazine (circulation five million business owners). He is publisher of Bob Nelson’s Rewarding Employees, cited as one of the country’s best management newsletters.