Bob Danzig

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Bob Danzig is a highly successful corporate executive, author and one of the nation's most spellbinding motivational speakers.

Bob Danzig grew from a childhood spent in five foster homes to two decades as nationwide head of The Hearst Newspaper Group and vice president of The Hearst Corporation. After graduating from high school with no family support, he took a job as an office boy at his local newspaper, the Albany (N.Y) Times Union. Nineteen years later, he became publisher of the Times Union before heading to the helm of The Hearst Newspaper Group.

Now an author and motivational speaker, Bob is also a member of the teaching faculty at the prestigious New School University and the guiding hand of The Hearst Management Institute. His goal is to be an instrument for renewed affirmation that every single person is worthwhile.

His business career has spanned 46 years with The Hearst Corporation from office boy to the ranking senior executive of one of the country's leading newspaper companies, with 6,000 employees across the nation.  Bob has also had leadership roles in the Newspaper Association of America, Newspaper Advertising Bureau, New Directions for News and the American Press Institute. He is the author of Vitamins for the Spirit, The Leader Within You, Angel Threads, Every Child Deserves a Champion, and There Is Only One You.

More About Bob Danzig . . .
He got his first job as an office boy at the local newspaper over 40 years ago. That job turned into a career. Eventually, Bob became publisher of the Albany Times Union and Knickerbocker News, and he became general manager of the Hearst Newspapers nationwide. Since then, the Hearst group has had a renaissance of talent, technology and reputation. Annual sales have soared to exceed $1 billion, and cash flow has grown a hundredfold during Danzig's tenure. On a typical day, about three million people will read one of Hearst's daily newspapers in cities such as Houston, San Antonio, San Francisco and Seattle. Danzig also served as corporate vice president and member of the board of directors.

Bob graduated with high honors from Siena College in Albany and later received its award for outstanding career achievement. In May 1997, Siena College conferred on him, an honorary Ph.D.

That's not bad for a young man who grew up in five foster homes and got a college degree attending classes at night and on weekends. He was inspired to succeed, he says, by the people he met along the way. His great joy is being able to lift the spirit of others by sharing his experiences, and he does that very well. Despite a demanding business schedule, he has built a second career as a motivational speaker. He talks to thousands of people all over North America each year.

Bob Danzig shows you the difference between management and leadership. His finely crafted and convincingly delivered talks will inspire and motivate.

Bob’s net speaking and author fees are donated to foster children (his passion) and gifted young musicians (his wife’s passion).

• THE SPIRIT DRIVEN ORGANIZATION
  

  Insights to enhance the morale/spirit/commitment of your organization's colleagues to your 'Noble Purpose'. Vested in Bob's own experience in dramatically changing the destiny of the Hearst Newspaper's profit performance, professional reputation and talent retention. The pillars of that performance are anchored in memorable stories—all re-inforcing the larger message that well-managed organizations function—high spirit organizations EXCEL.

• DISCOVERING THE LEADER WITHIN YOU
  

  In this, his most requested talk, Bob Danzig has identified nine inherent leadership powers that don't need to be learned—they simply need to be applied if one is to lead others.

• THE CONFIDENCE ACADEMY
  

  This session will help you have more successful conversations, reduce shyness, better deal with mistakes, handle risks, tell a story, prepare and give a presentation and/or speech, and better give and take criticism. Each of these are areas which tend to limit confidence. Awareness of the tools create a mental lending library to turn to for future enhancements. The Confidence Academy is a highly-focused single presentation based on the conviction that successful organizations are confident places—and—confident places have their foundations in confident people. The Confidence Academy guides participants in accessing the “tools” to enhance confidence and tap the inherent capabilities within us all. From the mailroom to the boardroom, The Confidence Academy illuminates the powers of Confident Leaders.

• THE SOFTER SIDE OF SUCCESS
  

  In this interactive workshop session of one hour the spotlight is shined on those characteristics which breed excellence in any organization. Stories surround each major point and makes the insights more memorable.Those Softer Values include: Mindset, Motivation, Attitudes, Nurturing, Self-Esteem.

• RARITY
  

  Bob describes a journey of appreciation for the potential in everyone. His stories affirm the singular ways in which people have touched his life.

• THREADS OF LIFE
  

  Those unforgettable people that make a difference in our lives are the threads that create our life's "tapestry." Bob shares his experiences which help listeners appreciate how giving to others shows us our own special gifts.

"Leadership is a hot topic in Corporate America today—Bob Danzig nails it in The Leader Within You. He's found the right formula to explain and 'make real' an important yet difficult-to-explain topic."

---Rick Wagoner, Chairman of General Motors

"As a professional colleague of Bob Danzig for more than 20 years, I've always marvelled at the magical way he seems to inspire and motivate the six thousand Hearst Newspaper employees who call him boss. It is magic, in a sense, but Bob credits his success as coming from what he calls "The Leader Within You", an untapped quality we all possess in his view."

--- John Mack Carter, President of Hearst Magazine Enterprises,
former editor of Good Housekeeping Magazine

"Bob Danzig is one of those magic people who, when he enters a room, he fills it. And when he begins to speak, he owns it."

--- Paul La Camera, V.P. General Manager
WCVB -TV, Boston, Mass