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Duke Corporate Education
310 Blackwell Street
Durham, NC 27701
USA

Robert Fulmer

Academic Director

Bob Fulmer is an Academic Director at Duke Corporate Education and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University.

A world expert in leadership development, Bob has designed and delivered executive seminars in 23 countries and on six continents. His research and writing have focused on future challenges of management, implementation of strategy, and leadership development as a lever for strategic change. He has been named one of the top 50 executive coaches, according to the Handbook of Best Practices in Executive Coaching.

Bob's writings have been widely read in both academic and professional circles. In 2007, he and Executive Director Jared Bleak collaborated on The Leadership Advantage: How the Best Companies Are Developing Their Talent to Pave the Way for Future Success. Bob has written or co-authored 15 books—including numerous editions of business textbooks—and more than 140 published articles. He has served on the editorial board of seven journals.  

Bob received his first endowed chair at Trinity University and was responsible for worldwide management development for Allied Signal, Inc., with responsibility ranging from first-line supervision to senior executives. He has also served as president of two management consulting firms specializing in human resource issues.

He was previously the W. Brooks George Professor of Management at the College of William and Mary and a visiting scholar at the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT. He also taught Organization and Management at Columbia University's Graduate Business School. For six years, Bob was director of executive education at Emory University, where he was in charge of the Executive MBA program as well as public and customized programs for general and functional managers.

Bob served on the International Research Advisory Committee of the Strategos Institute, was a Senior Fellow and Special Advisor to the President of the EastWest Institute and is strategy advisor to the President of the Institute for Cancer Prevention.

Bob earned his MBA from the University of Florida, and his PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles.