Robert Traister

Robert “Bobby Von Lee” Traister is a global construction executive, world traveler, artist, and writer whose life and work have taken him across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific. With over 33 years leading complex industrial and energy megaprojects, he has built some of the largest structures on earth — but his writing is focused on the structures that matter most: meaning, identity, and the human heart.

Bobby writes from experience, not theory.

He is a widower, a survivor of personal collapse, and a man who has rebuilt himself more than once. His books reflect the journey:

• The Empty Chair examines legacy, loss, and the emotional weight of what we leave behind.

• Don’t Destroy Your Life delivers the hard truths and practical strategies he wishes he had known before walking through divorce.

• His upcoming works — including The Genesis Spiral and One Garden — explore discipline, awakening, consciousness, and the architecture of an intentional life.

Beyond leadership and writing, Bobby is an artist whose creative work is rooted in symbolism, spiritual imagery, and the global cultures he has lived within. His mission is simple:

to help people rebuild themselves, reclaim their clarity, and rise from the chapters that tried to break them.

He writes for anyone standing between the life they once had and the life they still have time to create.