Bob Halperin

President and Co-founder

Alumni Forum Services

Bob Halperin is a leading expert on peer forums and leadership development, with deep experience facilitating groups for YPO, Harvard Business School alumni, and Fortune 500 executives. A former Chief Education Officer of YPO and co-author of the Harvard Business Review article “How to Get the Most out of Peer Support Groups,” Bob has facilitated hundreds of sessions worldwide. He combines executive-level insight, research-based methods, and improvisational skill to help leaders and teams learn, connect, and grow.

Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Specialties

Forum facilitation, peer support groups, executive education, leadership development, moderator training, team retreats, organizational change, strategic planning, higher education leadership

Certificate(s)

YPO Certified Forum Facilitator (CFF), Eisenhower Fellow

Education

Harvard Business School – MBA; Brandeis University – B.A., Economics

Trusted By

YPO, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, Wharton Executive Education, McKinsey, Techstars, Circl.es, Alumni Forum Services

Testimonials

"A heartfelt thank you for facilitating our retreat. As a facilitator it must be really tough to come into a group and have them walk away feeling universally positive about the experience. It must be tougher to come back a second time and repeat. Then Bob came back a third time and repeated that performance again! I deeply appreciate his commitment and feel that this past weekend was exactly what our forum needed."

Al Gordon

Harvard Business School Alumni Forum,

Boston, MA

"Thank you so much for our amazing retreat!!! Bob helped us build stronger connection and gave us tools for a more efficient forum experience going forward. We all loved it and found it very valuable, insightful, and inspiring. Thanks again for your hard work and very thoughtful, impactful approach to our YPO Parenting Network Forum’s first retreat."

Anna Janover

YPO Parenting Network Forum

"Bob – you rock! You’re great at what you do and should be proud of having helped us bond as a forum. Trust me that I felt a lot of barriers come down that had been bugging me. I’m very happy with our experience."

Sophie Constant

YPO Montreal