“One of the things they excel at is dramatically changing the behavior of the management team, getting them to be collaborative in ways that management teams otherwise would not.”
Ellyn McColgan
Retired President
Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Management
BOB FRISCH, MANAGING PARTNER
Bob has over 29 years of experience designing and facilitating executive and board strategic offsites in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has published three articles on the subject in the Harvard Business Review: “Who Really Makes the Big Decisions in Your Company” (December 2011), "When Teams Can’t Decide" (November 2008), and "Off-Sites That Work" (June 2006). Bob's work has been profiled in publications from Fortune to CFO to the Johannesburg Business Report, and he has been a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and the Wall Street Journal.
Jossey-Bass recently published Bob's first book, Who's in the Room? How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them. Bob is a frequent speaker on leadership decision-making and top-team effectiveness.
Before founding the Strategic Offsites Group, Bob was a Managing Partner of Accenture, where he helped create the Organization and Change Strategy capability. Bob joined Accenture from Cap Gemini Sogeti, where he ran the Strategy Practice for the Americas region and led Gemini Consulting’s global capability in Corporate Vision and Growth. He began his career at the Boston Consulting Group, where he helped start BCG’s Los Angeles office.
In addition to a successful consulting career, Bob twice temporarily left consulting to take on senior executive roles. He ran Planning and Business Development for the Dial Corporation, and went on to become the youngest Division President of this Fortune 500 company. In 1994, Bob led Corporate Strategy for Sears, Roebuck and Co., where he helped guide what was, at the time, the largest voluntary restructuring in history.
Bob is a magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University, and earned his MBA at the Yale School of Management, where he was a Graduate Teaching Fellow.
Dangerous Company, a best-selling book on the consulting industry, says of Bob: "He has been there, small company and big, strategy and operations. He has lived much of his professional life on the road or in the corridors of power of huge institutions. In the game of business, he is equipped to be the perfect coach."