Dr. Bob Nelson is considered the world’s leading authority on employee recognition, motivation and engagement. He is president of Nelson Motivation Inc., a management training and consulting company that specializes in helping organizations improve their management practices, programs and systems. Dr. Bob serves as an Executive Strategist for HR Issues and has been named as a Top Thought Leader by the Best Practice Institute. He has worked with 80 percent of the Fortune 500 companies and has presented on six continents. He has been frequently featured in the national media including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CBS 60 Minutes, CNN, CNBC, PBS & NPR on how best to motivate today’s employees. He has sold over 4 million books on management and motivation, including 1501 Ways to Reward Employees, which recently went into its 62nd printing; 1001 Ways to Energize Employees; The 1001 Rewards & Recognition Fieldbook; The Management Bible; and his latest book, Recognizing & Engaging Employees For Dummies. He received a BA in psychology from Macalester College; an MBA in organizational behavior from UC Berkeley; and earned his PhD in management education with the late, great Dr. Peter Drucker, “The Father of Modern Management,” at The Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management School of the Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles where he did his doctoral dissertation on “Factors That Encourage or Inhibit the Use of Employee Recognition by U.S. Managers.” He teaches for the MBA program at the Rady School of Management at the University of California in San Diego, California