BOB FRISCH, MANAGING PARTNER

Bob Frisch has over 25 years of experience designing and facilitating executive offsites in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa with management teams ranging from Fortune 10 multinationals to family-held businesses. His work has been the subject of articles in publications ranging from Fortune to CFO Magazine to the Johannesburg Business Report. He is the author of When Teams Can't Decide (Harvard Business Review, November 2008) and co-author of Off-Sites That Work (Harvard Business Review, June 2006).

Before founding The Strategic Offsites Group,® Bob was a Managing Partner of Accenture, where he was brought in to help create Accenture's Organization and Change Strategy practice. Bob joined Accenture from Gemini Consulting, where he ran the Strategy Practice for the Americas, created and led the firm's global capability in Corporate Vision and Growth and was co-leader of Gemini's worldwide Practice Innovation capability. He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group, where he helped start the firm's Los Angeles office.

In addition to a successful consulting career, Bob twice temporarily left consulting to take senior executive roles. He ran Planning and Business Development for The Dial Corporation, where he designed and implemented new strategic planning and acquisition processes. He later served as the youngest Division President of this Fortune 500 company. In 1994, Bob took on the role of leading Corporate Strategy for Sears, Roebuck and Co., where he helped guide what was, at the time, the largest voluntary restructuring in American business history.

Bob is a magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University, and earned his MBA at the Yale School of Management.

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."