Armed with her mother’s words, “Never let someone else tell you what you can or cannot do,” Bobbi progressed year by year, learning to mimic the mouth movements of others to form words.

She eventually became a star on her high school speech and debate team and completely overcame the speech problems to make her career as a professional speaker and consultant.

Throughout more than 20 years of her career, Bobbi has been drawn to helping people fully develop themselves. She is an expert leader, coach and facilitator, drawing on her hard-fought life-long lessons in communication, language and leadership. She speaks at conferences and conventions around the country on personal development topics, focused on helping people be more resilient and achieving their personal best so they can enjoy more success and find more happiness and fulfilment along the way. She is a member of the Natioal Speakers Association.

Bobbi is a contributing author to the best-selling book Masters of Success (Entrepreneur Press), along with Lou Holtz, Harvey Mackay, Vince Lombardi, Jr., and many successful people of our time . She’s also a contributing author to Conversations on Customer Service & Sales, along with internationally acclaimed speakers and consultants, Brian Tracy, Jim Cathcart and Don Hutson.

Bobbi is a regular radio guest discussing Leadership. She writes for many publications and publishes her own newsletter, Success Builders Weekly™.

Bobbi has earned her reputation with her insightful, powerful, and entertaining stories and style. Her signature stories are remarkable ways for people to understand the importance of their contribution to their customers, colleagues, and companies. This understanding gives their work meaning and builds their personal commitment to pursue their potential and be the best they can be.

While she has created and customized programs, retreats and roundtables in the areas of sales, leadership and personal development, her favorites are in helping people see, believe and pursue the greatness they have inside themselves. Some sample topics are below.

• Wake Up Your Potential
• Crossing the Finish Line is Just the Beginning
• What's Your Blackberry?
• Innovating Yourself
• Choose Your Potential, Not Your Limitations

Upon graduation from high school in Missouri, she went right to work and soon became manager of a Wendy's Hamburgers restaurant. Her talent for leadership and teamwork led her to the McDonald's Management Training School.

At 21, she became the youngest McDonald's restaurant manager in Missouri, and in that role she guided her team to achieve the highest store profitability in her region. (After a surprise visit from top McDonald's Executives, she and her team earned the coveted "Outstanding Store Award!")

Bobbi moved to Greater Chicago in 1990 where she took a job with the downtown-Chicago law firm, Sperling Slater & Spitz. She earned her Associate's Degree at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, graduating with a 4.0. She's the first in her family to graduate from college.

She then moved to a larger downtown Chicago firm, Bollinger Ruberry & Garvey. While at Bollinger, Bobbi sought opportunities to use her natural talent for training and eventually took the responsibility for managing and delivering the computer training for the firm.

She used this experience to springboard into her first entrepreneurial mission — starting her own business as an independent training consultant. Her old firm, Bollinger, became her first client.

Bobbi is in high demand as a speaker in Leadership. She has delivered both public and private programs for

• American Marketing Association
• Associated General Contractors
• National Association for Health Underwriters
• First Tech Credit Union
• Montgomery and Graham, Inc.
• Abilita, Inc.
• Sussman & Shank, LLP
• Axium Software
• Timberline Software
• Avamere Health Services
• Institute of Management Consultants
• Commercial Real Estate Women
• Metropolitan Senior Network
• Northwest Support Professionals

and many others.