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.

Only a few professional speakers can claim to have sold as many books as Dr. Nelson: some 3 million books on man agement and motivation, translated into over 25 languages, including 1001 Ways to Reward Employees (now in its 2nd edition and 52nd printing), The 1001 Rewards & Recogni tion 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 includ ing (within the last six months) twice in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, 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 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 20 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 Leader ship" 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 studies.