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Email: bob@triplecrownleadership.com
Bob Vanourek is the former CEO of five firms, ranging from a start-up to a $1 billion NY
stock exchange company and including winners of a state-level Malcolm Baldrige Quality
Award and the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence.
He is the co-author of Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring
Organizations, a 2013 USA Best Book Awards Winner, called “the best leadership book
Bob has been a contributing writer to many publications and a chapter-contributor to
numerous books on ethics, trust, and servant leadership (including Trust Inc. Volumes 1, 2,
and 3, published by Next Decade Inc.; 2013, 2014, and 2015; Reflections on Leadership
(John Wiley and Sons; 1995); and Good Business, Routledge; 2009).
Bob is a former adjunct leadership instructor at the University of Denver and Colorado
Mountain College. He was and Chairman then Chairman Emeritus of the Vail Leadership
Institute (now a part of The Vail Centre), and a former board member or leader of ten for-
profit and non-profit boards. Bob has been a consultant-coach for many corporations, non-
profits, and international, state, and local governments.
He is a Baker Scholar graduate (top 5%) of the Harvard Business School, a magna cum
laude graduate of Princeton University, and a certified leadership instructor from
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the Phi Theta Kappa Society.
Bob has been named one of the “Top Thought Leaders in Trust” for 2013 – 2016, as well as
one of the American Management Association’s “Leaders to Watch in 2015.” Bob is a
decorated Army officer and a lifelong student of leadership.



