Bob Kelleher

Author, Speaker, Engagement Thought Leader

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Why Book

Bob has stories about his ability to enhance employee engagement, leadership and workforce trends for business and organizations.
Bob’s keynotes are loved by human resource specialist and other business professionals to discuss corporate culture and change.

Biography

Bob Kelleher is a best-selling author, international keynote speaker, and consultant who travels the globe sharing his insights on employee engagement, leadership, and workforce trends. Bob is the author of the recently released I-Engage:Your Personal Engagement Roadmap, the best-selling book, Louder Than Words: 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results, and Creativeship: An Engagement and Leadership Fable, Employee Engagement for Dummies.

Bob can be seen or heard on national media (most recently on CNBC, CBS, NBC News, Business Week, Forbes, Training Magazine, Yahoo, and Fortune), and is a frequent guest writer and contributing editor on many national publications.

Having been an internal practitioner for many years, Bob weaves together proven best practices, current case studies, and supporting research to make a compelling business case. His enthusiastic and passionate delivery have proven to be a winning formula for audiences throughout the world – with recent talks in Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Warsaw, Belfast, Paris, Kiev, Dubai, and Mexico.

Bob has also presented to the leadership teams of many of the world’s top companies, including Shell, Unocal, TJX, Prudential, Abbott Labs, Fidelity, Balfour Beatty, Wurth, Iressa, Dale Carnegie, Covidien, and Millipore. He is also a frequent conference presenter including by SHRM, Conference Board, Linkage, Human Capital Institute, HR Congress, Aberdeen and Melcrum.

Bob is the founder of The Employee Engagement Group, a global consulting firm that works with leadership teams to implement best in class leadership and employee engagement programs, workshops, and surveys.

Previously, Bob was the CHRO AECOM, a Fortune 500 global professional services firm, with 45,000 employees located in 450 offices throughout the world. Before AECOM in 2005, Bob worked for ENSR, a large global environmental consulting firm. While at ENSR, Bob was Executive Vice President of Organizational Development, and Chief Operating Officer and spearheaded ENSR’s award winning Employee Engagement programs and initiatives.

Bob has a BS degree from Salem State College, Salem, MA, and a MBA from Suffolk University, Boston, MA. He resides in Danvers, MA, with wife Candice, and is blessed with 3 terrific children, Marissa, Brendan, and Connor. In his spare time, Bob enjoys reading, photography, playing baseball, basketball, and golf, and often can be found kayaking the waters of New England.

Programs

Louder Than Words – 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results

Bob’s signature keynote is based on his critically acclaimed book Louder Than Words and is often a “call to action” for leadership teams and conference attendees that engagement must stand the test of time, in both boom and recessionary times. This presentation reinforces the 10 key steps necessary to sustain an engaged culture, improve business results, maintain credibility with employees, while also reinforcing that success involves the “mutual commitment” of both leadership and employees.

I-ENGAGE: Your Personal Engagement Roadmap

Gallup and others claim that in spite of an improved economy, only 32% of your employees are engaged, and we think we know why. Based on our research for I-Engage, engagement continues to be an issue because engagement efforts focus on the organization, leadership, the manager, and culture. Learn why engagement needs to engage the WHOLE person, with a focus on individual accountability.

Who’s Sinking Your Boat?

Based on Bob Kelleher’s viral YouTube sensation (1.2M views), this talk discusses why only 34% of employees are engaged, how to identify the ‘disengaged’ and what to do with those actively disengaged (“Sinking Your Boat”). Using the latest statistics and case studies, Kelleher makes a compelling and at times hilarious case that one’s state of engagement can either drive or ‘sink’ your business.

Empathy Is The New Black.

…and the most important driver of engagement – in this reflective and powerful talk, Bob weaves together the latest research and case studies to prove that the empathetic manager holds the secret sauce to maximizing the engagement of employees.

Engaging the Generations: Typewriters to Tablets.

In this energizing, multi-media keynote participants will be taken into the depths of each generation and leave with practical tools for addressing the common issues that define each group of employees. This keynote doesn’t focus only on the differences of each generation, it also spends significant time on the similarities, and how to maximize those similarities for increased performance and higher engagement levels. Whether your generation is Traditionalist, Boomer, Gen X, Gen or Gen Z, this keynote is for you!

Linking Hiring to Culture: You Don’t Have an Engagement Issue, You Have a Hiring Issue!

Companies and managers tend to hire based on education, experience, or skill, but often overlook the more important behaviors and traits that define an organizational culture. Learn now to map your hiring process to your unique culture in this high energy and practical session applying the B.E.S.T. profile for identifying exactly what Behaviors, Experience, Skills, and Traits that align with your culture.