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Bob Woodburn

High-Performance Teamwork and Balance Wizard

Dr. Bob Woodburn delights audiences with what he calls "serious play." A highly engaging and entertaining keynote speaker, he uses juggling as a visual metaphor, showing people how to be their best and take on challenges they might otherwise fear. With powerful performance lessons, he teaches leadership, innovation, teamwork, confidence building, and how to get real results in our business and personal lives.

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Bob is a living example of his own inspirational message. Innovator, entrepreneur, consultant, academic, and strategic business leader, he has been a high-level athlete, adventurer, and coach. He has written two best-selling books (while juggling four kids). He has led two successful companies. He has five university degrees, including a PhD. He plays in a rock band. And whenever he can, he jumps into new challenges – like skydiving over Mission Beach, Australia while back packing around the world in 2002.

Since 1990, Dr. Bob has delivered keynotes at over 100 conferences around the world and has addressed employees at a number of Fortune 500 companies. He works comfortably with audiences of any size, from 50 top-level executives seeking unity around a strategic plan to 5,000 university freshmen learning how to juggle. His gift is the ability to inspire, through the elimination of fear, the adding of fun, and teaching people how to balance their lives to be more effective at work and at home.

Juggling for Balance and Blast Off!
How to Lighten Up and Leap Ahead to High Performance

Dr. Bob Woodburn wakes people up! His unique and spirited presentation weaves the twin arts of juggling and work-life balance into a powerful vehicle for breakthrough action and performance. You'll lighten up, laugh lots, and experience the power of group confidence building. Learn fresh tips for cultivating balance and sustaining high productivity. Gain a fresh perspective on coaching and motivating your team. Come prepared for the transformational power of "serious play."

Each presentation is customized around the client's objectives and is designed to ignite fresh thinking and action on issues such as:

Building the confidence and capacity of individuals and teams
Encouraging people to see that they can do things they didn't think they could, envision breakthrough results, and enjoy the process.

Learning to focus and zero in
Using juggling and balance to engage audience members with each other, and helping them hone their ability to prioritize and keep their eye on the ball.

Innovative thinking, change, and the team
Teaching the spirit of playfulness that inspires the kind of thinking and innovation that always improves productivity. People learn to learn faster and with greater ease -- relishing change in the process.

Lightening up and laughing more to deal with pressure and find balance in their lives
Getting everyone to laugh and lighten up and understand how balance inspires superior performance and measurable business results.

The benefits of teamwork and collaboration
Teaching everyone – literally everyone -- to juggle and coach each other to experience breakthrough performance. This invariably opens up communication, builds trust, and creates alignment.

The need to act and follow through
Motivating people to follow through, to act quickly and decisively, and apply their insights to their work.

Bob Woodburn weaves a powerful message about high performance, balance and organizational effectiveness and how to tackle it all head on.

John Fleming, CEO &President The Arthritis Society Former Deputy Minister of Community and Family Services
You exceeded our expectations. This important message goes right to the bottom line. Life balance is essential for today's harried management and staff. Knowing how is the key. You captured it beautifully.

Nancy Chernecki, GlaxoSmithKline
I would like to thank you for teaching me the "take-away" in front of everyone at our recent team conference. I am not usually an "on-stage" kind of guy but I felt quite comfortable trying something middling hard in front of a large group, because after listening to your presentation, I was confident I could. I suppose that is the message, eh? Thanks, it was fun.

Paul McElcheran, Bell Canada BST
What a wonderful way to get minds and bodies working! You engaged everyone and underscored important principles of learning, leading and working with others. Now we have a new business tool.

Deborah Danis, Canada Customs and Revenue Agency
Our investment in this presentation has paid dividends over and over. Your inspiring session sparked new awareness and commitment, at all levels of our organization, to maintaining balance and perspective in the face of daily challenges and change at McNeil.

Paul Truex, former Vice President McNeil Consumer Health Care
Your presentation Juggling It All...Successfully was an amazing journey that exceeded our expectations. The feedback I've received has been tremendously positive. The atmosphere you created was relaxed and welcoming which really helped the team loosen up and embrace your teachings. I've never seen such a large group of people on their feet and having so much fun –it was amazing to witness. I continue to receive feedback about the energy you created with your presentation.

Joanne Kendall, Senior Business Analyst Bell Canada
I was asked to write about Bob Woodburn and attended one of his presentations where I witnessed the impossible: more than 200 exhausted government employees entered a big room on a Friday afternoon, thinking the weekend, and left two hours later animated, inspired, and energized. Several dozen of them stayed afterward for extra juggling instruction and to ask Dr. Bob's advice about specific work-related issues. He electrified that room and left a big impression on those people.

Tony Leighton, Writer Fix Inc.

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The Instant Juggling Book
Ever wanted to juggle but thought you could never learn? Now you can and have a ball doing it! This unique book has been a very strong bestseller since it was introduced (over 325,000 sold). It comes with three beautifully sewn juggling cubes featuring a soft, yet tough, leather-like covering in bright red, blue and yellow primary colors. The instructions and over 100 illustrations are outstanding - clear, easy to follow and very entertaining! You'll be juggling in no time and mastering the more than 40 tricks included in this fun and fully illustrated guide.
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The Instant Ring Juggling Book
Juggling is hot, and happy jugglers have bought over a quarter of a million copies of Dr. Bob Woodburn's Instant Juggling Book. Now they'll want his new and very unique how-to ring juggling package. There is nothing like it anywhere in the world. Fully illustrated with 240 line drawings and written with skill and humor, it is a complete guide to juggling rings. And, like his other book, this one is great for everyone-from total novices, who have never juggled anything, to more seasoned jugglers who are ready for a new and fun step.

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Bob Woodburn

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Juggling for Balance and Blast Off!How to Lighten Up and Leap Ahead to High Performance

The Instant Juggling Book

The Instant Ring Juggling Book