Bob Nelson, PhDBob is the answer to any organization that is looking to better attract needed talent, get the best out of its investment in their people in both performance and satisfaction, and have employees stay longer and contribute more with the organization. His results are guaranteed! Few people have had the influence on the field of management and motivation as Dr. Bob Nelson. He is president of Nelson Motivation, Inc., a management training and consulting company located in San Diego, California that specializes in helping organizations improve their management practices, programs and systems. He is a co-founder of the National Association for Employee Recognition and previously worked closely with Dr. Ken Blanchard (The One Minute Manager) as his principal writer, co-author, chief of staff and vice president of The Ken Blanchard Companies for ten years. Although there are over 50,000 professional speakers in the United States, only as few as a dozen can claim to have sold as many books as Dr. Nelson: some 3 million books on management and motivation, translated into over 25 languages, including 1001 Ways to Reward Employees (now in its 2nd edition and 51st printing), The 1001 Rewards & Recognition Fieldbook, 1001 Ways to Energize Employees, 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work, Managing For Dummies and The Management Bible. Dr. Nelson appears frequently in the national media including (within the last six months) twice in The New York Times, Money magazine, NPR and a dedicated box feature in BusinessWeek. He has also appeared numerous times on CNN, MSNBC, and PBS and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Fortune and INC. magazines and numerous other publications to discuss how to best motivate today's employees. Bob has been speaking for more than 15 years and has spoken thousands of times to over 800 companies (many on a yearly basis). He has also performed hundreds of public seminars with American City Business Journals, Lumacore, Get Motivated Seminars and Wyncom's "Lessons in Leadership" to live audiences in excess of 80,000 people. He has worked with or consulted for almost two-thirds of the companies on the Fortune 500 list. He holds an MBA in organizational behavior from UC Berkeley and received his PhD in management from The Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management School at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles, where he worked closely with the late Dr. Peter Drucker on his doctoral dissertation. He currently teaches organizational behavior at The Rady School of Management at the University of California in San Diego. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
