Dr Bob Rosen, CEO
Bob is a trusted CEO adviser, organizational psychologist, and bestselling author.
He has long been on a mission to transform the world of business, one leader at a time. Bob founded Healthy Companies International over thirty years ago with the singular goal of helping executives achieve their leadership potential. With support from a multiyear grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Bob and his colleagues began an in-depth study of leadership. Since then, he has personally interviewed more than 600 CEOs—in fifty countries—in organizations as diverse as Ford, Motorola, Johnson & Johnson, Singapore Airlines, Brinks, Northrop Grumman, Toyota, Citigroup, PepsiCo, ING, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has become an adviser to many of these companies, and coordinates the Healthy CEO Roundtable.
Bob is a frequent keynote speaker at a variety of global events. Bob has spoken on issues ranging from Leading Transformation and Leading Innovation to Leading Growth and Leading in a Global World. The underlying foundation of all his work is the power of being a healthy and grounded leader and building high performance executive teams as the catalyst for personal and organizational success. Clients include Global 2000 corporations, government and nongovernmental organizations, and selected associations around the world.
Bob is an often quoted commentator in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Bloomberg Businessweek, Financial Times, Time, Chief Executive Magazine, and more. Bob’s books include The Healthy Company, Leading People, Just Enough Anxiety, Global Literacies, The Catalyst, the New York Times Bestseller Grounded®, and his latest Conscious. He is also in demand as a global keynote speaker with a special focus on leading great companies. Bob graduated from the University of Virginia. He subsequently earned a PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Bob teaches in executive education programs, and has been a longtime faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University’s School of Medicine.
For more information please visit BobRosen.com.
“For anyone who is managing in the face of today’s change will benefit from Bob Rosen’s accounts of inspired leadership.”
Daniel Goleman, Author of Emotional Intelligence
Jim Mathews, President
Jim oversees all aspects of Healthy Companies including strategy, operations, finances, marketing and client relationships.
Joining in 1997 he partners with CEO and Founder Bob Rosen to set and guide the overall direction of the company. Jim also enjoys an active involvement with a number of the company’s key clients. He partners with top leaders to assess and develop organizational and executive team capabilities and clarify their vision and values. He then integrates business and human capital strategies to guide them through complex culture change initiatives.
Jim believes in learning, growth and building healthy, transparent relationships. A caring listener and leadership adviser, he helps clients develop, strengthen and achieve critical skills, leaderships roles and employee relationships.
He has worked with top leaders at New York Life, MedStar Health, ING, Cigna and Rolls Royce. He is convinced that intelligent, passionate, and deeply caring individuals can “move mountains”.
In 20 years prior to joining Healthy Companies he worked in banking and finance, both as an executive with Citicorp in New York and running his own consulting practice. As an executive of Citicorp Jim advised leaders of major U.S.-based bank holding companies in formulating and financing their non-bank investments. He also developed and helped execute the Private Banking Division’s nationwide expansion plan for lending and investment products, and founded and managed Citicorp’s Private Bank’s Mid-Atlantic regional office in Washington D.C.
Jim is proud to serve on the board of the Washington DC Advisory Board of the Posse Foundation, which identifies, recruits, and provides scholarships for exceptional young leaders from widely diverse backgrounds to go to college, graduate and make a meaningful leadership impact in American society.
An accomplished pianist and composer, he has composed and recorded six albums that support people in deepening their meditation practice, an approach influenced from his study of Buddhism.
Jim holds a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from Washington & Lee University. He loves to read, study classical piano and cello, and travel. He is also an avid swimmer.