Robert Glazer

Robert Glazer is the founder and CEO of global partner marketing agency, Acceleration Partners and the co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. A serial entrepreneur, he has a passion for helping individuals and organizations build their capacity to Elevate.

Under his leadership, Acceleration Partners (AP) has received numerous company culture awards, including #4 on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work, Ad Age’s Best Places to Work, Entrepreneur’s Top Company Culture, Inc. Magazine’s Best Places to Work, Great Places to Work / Fortune Best Small & Medium Workplaces, Boston Globe Top Workplaces. AP was also selected as a Forbes Small Giants.

Bob was twice named to Glassdoor’s list of Top Small & Medium Companies CEO's (#2) and was selected as a Top 22 Conscious Business Leaders of 2019 by Conscious Company.

He is a columnist for Entrepreneur, Forbes, Thrive Global and Inc. writing on topics ranging from performance marketing, and entrepreneurship to company culture, capacity building, hiring and leadership.

He is the author of the global bestselling book Performance Partnerships and the WSJ & USA Today Bestseller, Elevate. His newest book, Friday Foward, releases Sept 2020.

Bob speaks to companies and organizations around the world on topics related to business growth, culture, capacity-building and performance.

He is a past recipient of the Boston Business Journal “40 under 40” award and is an advisor/board member to several high-growth companies. Over 200,000 people in 60 countries read his weekly Friday Forward (www.fridayfwd.com)