Bob Frisch

For over 30 years, Bob has worked with Senior Executive Teams and Boards on their most vital strategic and organizational challenges, both as a consultant and a corporate executive. He is considered one of the world's leading strategic facilitators, having designed and conducted offsites in sixteen countries with companies ranging from Fortune 10 multinationals to German mittelstand family businesses.

Bob is the author of four Harvard Business Review articles: Off-Sites That Work (June 2006, co-authored with Logan Chandler), When Teams Can't Decide (November 2008), Who Really Makes The Big Decisions in Your Company? (December 2011), and Leadership Summits That Work (March 2015, co-authored with Cary Greene). HBR named When Teams Can't Decide one of ten 'must read' articles on teams.

His first book, Who's In The Room? How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them, quickly became an Amazon bestseller in the categories of Leadership and Decision Making, and is now in distribution in 12 countries. His most recent book (co-authored with Robert Galford and Cary Greene) is Simple Sabotage - a Modern Field Manual for Detecting and Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors that Undermine Your Workplace.

 

Bob is a magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University and earned his MBA at the Yale School of Management.

 

Dangerous Company, a best-selling book on the consulting industry, says of Bob: "He has been there, small company and big, strategy and operations. He has lived much of his professional life on the road or in the corridors of power of huge institutions. In the game of business, he is equipped to be the perfect coach."