Rob Jolles

A sought-after speaker and five-time Bestselling author, Rob Jolles has spent over thirty-five years teaching, entertaining, and inspiring audiences worldwide.

His programs on influence and persuasion are in global demand, reaching organizations in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Far East. In showing clients not just “how to” but “why to,” he stirs individuals and companies to create real, lasting change. 

Rob not only successfully sold for both the New York Life InsuranceCompany and Xerox Corporation, two of the most respected sales institutions in the nation; he managed their training as well. He co-created the XeroxInstitute of Customer Education and was instrumental in creating, delivering, and managing Xerox Corporation’s highly touted customer sales training programs while being responsible for the training of all sales trainers within Xerox for over seven years. These programs have allowed him to amass a client list that reads like a Who’s Who of Fortune 500 companies, including Toyota, Disney,NASA, Lilly, Bristol Myers Squibb, Northrop Grumman, a dozen universities, and over 50 financial institutions.

His books, How to Change Minds, Why People Don’t Believe You, Customer Centered Selling, How to Run Seminars & Workshops, The Way of the RoadWarrior, and Mental Agility®, have been featured in USA Today,Harvard Business Review, Publisher’s Weekly, have spent over 100 weeks on the national Business Bestseller list and have been translated into over a dozen languages.  He currently lives in ChevyChase, Maryland.