Robert Reiss has interviewed more top CEOs in depth on timeless leadership principles than anyone, with over 1,000 interviews on the nationally syndicated, The CEO Show. He founded the company in 2007 with a radio show, The CEO Show, which today is nationally syndicated on over 55 AM radio stations with 600,000 weekly listeners. The CEO Show was rated in, “10 Top Podcasts Every CEO Should Listen To” as the #1 Podcast for CEOs. Reiss has written over 350 online articles for Forbes since 2009 specializing in transformative CEOs with focus on: women leadership, the customer experience, culture and digital transformation (he also started writing for Fortune and CNBC in 2022). Robert is the publisher of The CEO Forum Magazine, a quarterly received hard copy by the CEOs of the top 10,000 companies in America and digitally by thousands of other CEOs.
Robert Reiss coined the term “Transformative CEO” and then co-authored, The Transformative CEO (McGraw-Hill, 2012); Transformative CEOs was recently made into a documentary series. Reiss’ work with CEOs has been featured in media such as Squawk Box and The Harvard Business Review where Reiss was cited as, “an expert in executive communications”. According to the renowned business author Tom Peters, “Robert Reiss knows CEOs better than any person alive.”
Prior to leading The CEO Forum Group, Reiss was Managing Director of a strategic implementation consulting firm. In his not-for-profit work, Reiss is on the Board of Griffin Hospital (A Fortune #4 Best Company to Work for in America) and Planetree; he was a recipient of the United Health Fund’s Distinguished Trustee Award. Reiss is also on the Board of Directors of WBC, Women Business Collaborative, (the alliance of women’s business organizations). In 2023, Robert Reiss was an official independent judge at the Better Business Bureau for their annual BBB Torch Award for Ethics.