Bob Walsh

Global Branding & International Relations

Pick Bob’s Brain: Do you have a virtually impossible task ahead of you…with seemingly insurmountable odds? Are you wanting to expand your operation globally but don’t have the “contacts” or know-how to create international relationships? Are you trying to coalesce your global team but you don’t have the support you need? Do you want to create such a distinguished brand that it transcends commerce into a national or international “event?” If so, then you need to pick Bob’s brain.

Expertise & Experience: This is NOT hyperbole. Bob can literally coach you to accomplish the impossible. He has such a tenacious nature (armed w/humility) that he simply refuses to entertain thoughts of obstacles or impossibility. According to Bob, “Obstacles are for other people…not you.” His resume includes such diverse world-beating accomplishments as:

  • Transformed College Basketball’s Final Four into “March Madness” which has now become a worldwide spectacle.
  • Co-Founded 1990 The Goodwill Games – the largest sports, arts, and cultural program in the history of the U.S. and the USSR.
  • Initiated fund raising and organized the creation of The Vancouver Grizzlies NBA team; which now reside in Memphis, TN.
  • Negotiating, on behalf of the U.S., the return of two orbiting satellites allegedly stolen by the Russians.
  • Program director of the first all-talk station in the country.
  • Facilitating hundreds of millions of dollars in investments in former Soviet countries.
  • Currently at work organizing One World 2011, a reprise of the Goodwill Games designed to meet today’s challenges toward world peace.
  • Partnering with Russians to shoot a capsule into space from Russia to the U.S., in what the New York Times called “the greatest publicity stunt of the 20th century”
  • Serving as Founding Chairman of OneWorld Now!…an innovative nonprofit after-school program bringing education and travel to underserved children.

Accolades: Bob’s persistence, courage, and empathy, expressed through a wide range of political and social efforts, have earned him the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award from Coretta King, the “Supreme Soviet Award” from President Gorbachev, the World Affairs Council Award, recognition as an Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Georgia, and special recognition from Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

Fee: $400/hour via phone and Skype.
Half day: $6,000 at his location (Seattle)

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