Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey CKD-Emeritus, Accredited Speaker, DTM, PDG

Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey Quick Facts

Main Areas: Personal and professional leadership, sales, innovative thinking and presentation skills
Best Sellers: Not yet best sellers... but working on it. "A Legacy of Leadership", "Speaking for Success!", "Creating Time to Sell, Lead or Manage", "Secret Selling Tips", "Thinking Beyond the FIRST Sale"
Career Focus: Author, speaker, trainer, facilitator
Affiliation: Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, National Speakers Association, Toastmasters International

• Motivate your sales team, your employees, and
  your leadership to grow and succeed!
• Profitably move your leaders, teams and organization to the next level!
• Leverage your leadership!

Professional athletes have known for years, the value of engaging a good coach in enhancing their performance for maximum effectiveness. Professional, 21st Century business leaders are finding that selectively using a performance coach makes both dollars and sense. Bob can be that leadership coach or creative consultant in your long term growth and success in your profession and changing position as a leader!

 

Leadership skills and their on-going development have been career boosters, allowed people to create exciting new business ventures and build community service organizations. Whether your leadership path is personal or professional working with Bob can give you and your team a quantum leap in productivity and success. For the leader - school is never out. Successful leaders are constantly working on developing and honing their skills.

 

Canadian 'Idea Man,' Bob is a charismatic, confident leader, trainer and inspirational speaker who has worked successfully with a wide range of audiences and clients. Using personal stories based on rich experience, he challenges his audiences to engage his Ideas At Work! - To act on what they hear! Bob gives them clear, easily used building blocks for success in productively enhancing their leadership, career or business. He equips them to lead and motivate their employees to succeed. He gives them proven, innovative techniques to increase their effectiveness and to hone specific skills critical to succeed personally and professionally.

His leadership, career success and business enhancing ideas have been applied successfully by thousands of leading edge professionals, leaders, sales professionals, Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies, as well as employees and volunteers in 7 countries spanning 3 continents, to date.

 

Bob is a frequent contributor and columnist to North American consumer, association, corporate intranet, online and trade publications on leadership, employee motivation and training, creative problem solving, sales, time management, customer service and other business related areas. He is the prolific author of ten business, leadership, sales, and career development success books, a mini-book series, an e-book series, success systems and special resource guides and reports, and Business Enhancement Success Tools to reinforce his various success programs including: "Prepare Yourself to WIN!" and "I'm Already Running As Fast As I Can!"

 

In August of 1998, Toastmasters International recognized Bob "for his professionalism and outstanding achievements in public speaking" in Palm Desert, CA. Distinguished Toastmaster, Bob Hooey became the 48th person in their history to earn this professional designation as an Accredited Speaker."

Bob served with distinction in District 21. He was District Governor (1997-98) for BC’s 3500 plus Toastmasters. Bob has been inducted into the Toastmasters International Hall of fame for his speaking and his leadership on several occasions. He remains an active Toastmaster, speaking at District and Regional conferences across North America. He has served as D42's Executive Leadership coach for the past 5 years.

Bob is the co-founder and Past President of the Vancouver (BC) Chapter - Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) as well as an honorary member of the CAPS-Sask (founding) and CAPS- Halifax chapters.

 

At the CAPS National conference, in December 2000, Bob was given a special CAPS National President's Award "for his energetic contribution to the advancement of CAPS and his living example of the power of one."

 

In 1999, he became the first Canadian to attend CAMP NSA, opening the door for sucessive Chapter and National leaders to follow and experience this amazing leadership training. In 2000, Bob was elected to the CAPS National Board, serving two years as a National Director. He was honored for his dedicated national leadership service in 2002. He is currently an active leader and member of the CAPS Edmonton Chapter and a member of NSA-Arizona Chapter.

 

Award winning kitchen designer Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey, CKD-Emeritus (retired), is one of less than 75 Canadian kitchen designers to earn this prestigious Certification by the National Kitchen and Bath Association.

Bob continues to serve as an NKBA teaching professional, and authored "How to Remodel Your Kitchen & Stay Married!" to help his remodeling clients. He got his start doing showroom seminars sharing tips on how to get the best design and kitchen for your budget. This led to his evolution into speaking.

 

He has been honored by the United Nations Association and received the CANADA 125 award for his ongoing leadership contributions to the community.

 

Bob has been inducted into the Toastmasters International Hall of Fame on numerous occasions for his leadership contributions.

 

In August of 1988, Bob joined 3 other men to sail a 65 foot gaff-rigged, steel-hulled schooner from Honolulu to Kobe, Japan, barely surviving a "baby" typhoon en route. 29 long and harrowing days later they safely sailed into the Kobe/Osaka harbour.

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