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Canadian based leadership, sales, motivational business success expert, author, speaker and trainer, Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey. Equip and motivate your leaders and teams to grow and succeed. Bob delivers live or on-line training programs.

Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey

Bob is commited to helping equip your sales teams, leaders, and your teams to grow, take increased personal leadership and responsibilty for their growth and success!

Ideas At Work! and its professional 'idea rich' services grew (one by one) from Bob’s commitment to strong service foundations. It grew as he expanded his services and resources available to his clients in response to their increasing requests.

If you are serious about 'profitably' taking your career, leadership, business, or team to the next level; consider the 'positive' leadership, career, employee motivation and idea rich business development results and 'profitable' benefits of engaging Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey and putting his Ideas At Work!

Bob's 'passion' is helping to equip business leaders and their teams to profitably grow and to productively succeed. He does that by effective interaction and engagement via different roles and pathways, depending on the client or audience needs.

This webpage outlines some of the roles in which Bob has successfully worked with individuals, business leaders, and organizations across the globe. He is a business leader who is commited to your success and is willing to engage in various capacities to facilitate that success.

As a vital part of your business leadership team, inspiring keynote or a dynamic partner at your next training session or conference; Bob offers the benefit of a solid, yet varied background of professional services to assist his clients, audiences and readers.


Bob offers the benefit of a solid, yet varied background of professional services, including:


Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey: Inspirational keynote speaker and/or innovative, results based trainer

Bob has carved out a solid track record as a professional motivational speaker, results based trainer and creative thinker. His humorous, conversational, and sometimes provocative style continues to inspire his audiences across North America and around the globe.

His clients appreciate his willingness to tailor his innovative programs to meet and exceed their needs, and to maximize the take-home use-it-immediately value to his audiences around the globe.

See some of Bob's Productivity enhancement, results-based training programs

See some of Bob's Inspirational Keynotes

Put Bob's energy, experience, commitment to value and his proven leadership and speaking abilities to work for your organization!

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Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey: Business author and columnist

Bob has been sharing his innovative and challenging Ideas At Work! in various formats and publications for over 29 years. He continues to create success using ongoing results drawn from personal experience with clients, leaders, employees and volunteers across North America, Europe and Australia. Bob is the prolific author of 33 leadership, business, sales success, employee motivation and career development books (several of which became Amazon best sellers), a mini-book series, success systems, a series of e-books, as well as special resources, white papers, reports, and business enhancement success tools. He is a columnist and frequent contributor to North American publications and on-line business sites. He is a prolific author who believes in leveraging his leadership and his expertise to help his readers.

He can personally tailor a publication, learning guide or workbook for your specific needs, or develop something unique to your situation or group. Perhaps you need a script for a conference MC, webcast or video shoot? Perhaps an article or training workbook to reinforce or introduce a new concept to your staff? For example, Bob worked on a business-building, leadership, employee reference book for one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies. (Published on August 5th, 2006 with an initial run of 10,000 copies in English and 2,000 copies in French.)

Put Bob's creativity, experience and commitment to value-added results to work for you and your team.

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Bob has written numerous idea rich publications to inform, challenge, and inspire his readers and audiences. Many of Bob's top training programs are supported in print. Make sure you ask about volume discounts for publications to reinforce your team's time with Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey.

Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey: Emcee/Master of ceremonies, Host, Meeting Chair

Bob has led and hosted conferences around the world and EMCEED quite a few across North America. For example: He co-hosted a sold out conference for CEO's, tax accountants and attorneys in Cancun, Mexico. He hosted a 3-day music festival for over 2000 young people in Wildegg, Switzerland. He's emceed many awards banquets including Douglas College's Entrepreneur of the Year (BC) and The Canadian Blood Services donor awards (AB). He's been engaged to calmly chair highly productive and positively direct 'heated' AGM's and assorted professional board meetings across Canada. He's hosted multiple events for the Canadian Association of Professionals Speakers. He has emceed award ceremonies for clients as a part of his participation in their convention. (He has spoken earlier in the event and then emceed and award event as well.) He recently spoke in Paris for 300 professional speakers from 14 countries. He recently spoke in Paris for the second time, as well as Barcelona and Manila (2019).

Bob can help you create a winning meeting/event/awards ceremony and keep it flowing, on time; and keep your audience involved and interested.

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Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey: Facilitator and/or inspirational business leadership/executive coach

Bob has established a solid reputation earned from a long and varied background in various facets of facilitation. He continues to build on his creative strengths, and has the proven abilities to lead, involve, manage and develop effective teams.

  • Facilitation/event planning for conferences and special events
  • Leadership/executive coach to support their growth - see more details
  • Facilitation/coordination with media, film and audio crews
  • Facilitation/moderator for panel and roundtable discussions
  • Facilitation/leader for strategic planning and training sessions
  • Facilitation for employee motivation and training programs
  • Facilitation/leader for brainstorming/idea generation/problem solving sessions
Bob can help you plan your event, pull your team together to accomplish your goals, and maximize your efforts and resources.

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Bob ‘Idea Man’ Hooey has earned international recognition as an inspirational, best selling author, motivational leader, facilitator, corporate trainer and award winning motivational keynote speaker on association, community or business innovation, inspirational leadership, enhanced team profitability, motivation, as well as personal performance and sales success.

Bob is the inspirational author of over 30 business, career, sales and leadership success books, (including several Amazon best sellers) a mini-book series, four success systems and a series of new e-books. He is a motivational columnist and frequent contributor on sales, teamwork, employee motivational and inspirational leadership, innovation, and success to North American consumer, association, on-line, corporate and trade publications.

Canadian Trainer, Motivational Keynote Speaker, on-line Corporate Sales Trainer and Inspirational Leadership Coach, Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey (info@bobhooey.training)
Creative Offices (Canada): (780) 736-0009

http://www.bobhooey.training (a division of Creativity Corner Inc.) Contact Canadian motivational, leadership, sales, business and association keynote conference speaker and inspirational sales, corporate trainer, Bob ‘Idea Man’ Hooey today, for your next training or executive event.

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