About Bob
Bob Goff is the three-time New York Times Best-selling author of Love Does, Everybody Always, and Dream Big. As an attorney, he successfully recovered approximately one half-billion dollars for his clients before exploring other ventures. He started an airline, built a Lodge in Canada, serves as the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Uganda, is a sought after speaker, founded a non-profit called Love Does which operates schools and safe houses for children in Afghanistan, India, Uganda, Nepal and Somalia.
Bob owns and operates a retreat center in Southern California where people come to refine and then pursue their ambitions and Bob has coached over one thousand people and brought them through a program he created called Dream Big. His passion as a coach is to help people identify and connect with their most important unexecuted ambition while excel at those things they are already doing.
… & Friends
Kimberly Stuart
Kimberly Stuart grew up in Iowa, where she learned to be snobbish about corn on the cob and good storytelling. She earned degrees at St. Olaf College and the University of Iowa, both fine institutions that did very little to prepare her for the lethal cocktail of parenting and writing.
Stuart is the author of eight novels, including Sugar, Heart Land, and the Heidi Elliott series. Her books have been featured in Cosmopolitan, Huff Post, and the Chicago Sun-Times, and have been carried by Target, Wal-Mart, Barnes & Noble, and booksellers nationwide. She and New York Times-bestselling author Bob Goff have coached hundreds of aspiring authors to finish their good and important work. It is an honor to help get their words out into the world through their work in executive coaching, online courses, and events at The Oaks Retreat Center.
Kim's podcast, For Real with Kimberly Stuart, launched in fall 2021.
Stuart has made her home in Minneapolis, Houston, Chicago, Costa Rica, Nebraska, and Iowa, where she now lives with her brave husband and three wily children.
Find Kim on Facebook, Instagram (kimberly.stuart.writes), and at kimberlystuart.com.
Ambassador John Cotton Richmond
Ambassador Richmond has successfully built teams to generate meaningful impact in the private, government, and non-profit sectors. He is a Partner at Dentons (the world's largest law firm), a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a leader in the global fight against human trafficking.
Focusing on the intersection between business and human rights, John advises companies on how to keep their supply chains free of forced labor and their workforces free of sex trafficking.
The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed John to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Working in the nation’s highest-ranking position dedicated to human trafficking, John led U.S. foreign policy related to modern slavery and coordinated the U.S. government’s response to the crime.
Prior to his appointment as Ambassador, John served for over a decade as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, where he prosecuted numerous victim-centered labor and sex trafficking cases. He also co-founded the Human Trafficking Institute and lived in India for three years pioneering International Justice Mission’s slavery work.
John has received numerous honors and commendations, including being named a “Prosecutor of the Year” and the "Wilberforce Award" for exceptional leadership in the fight against human trafficking. His work caused the former head of the FBI’s human trafficking program to call him “every trafficker’s worst nightmare.”
John received his undergraduate degree from the University of Mary Washington and his law degree from Wake Forest University. Ambassador Richmond is a writer and frequent speaker on topics of faith, justice, vocation, and parenting and is a Fellow at the C.S. Lewis Institute. He lives outside Washington, DC with his “Lovely and Talented” wife and their three robust and remarkable children.
Mike McDonald
Michael McDonald has worked in Non-Profit leadership for the past 14 years. Starting, running, and leading boards of a number of multimillion dollar NGO’s, Michael has led many successful efforts in Justice and compassion ministries around the world. He has also traveled with Bob for the past decade to Afghanistan, Iraq, Mongolia, Nepal, Uganda, and Somalia. Prior to Non-Profit work Michael ran a 6 million dollar a year restaurant with over 200 employees. He specializes in Conflict resolution and organizational leadership and has consulted for the Gates Foundation, Remember NHU, UNHCR, and many NGO’s and cooperations over the last 20 years of professional experience. Currently Mike helps lead Dream Big Workshops with Bob and also serves as the Director of Strategic Relationships at a non profit animation studio called the Bible Project in Portland, Oregon.
Patrick Dodd
Patrick has spent his entire career in both business and creative endeavors including 10+ years running Blinksale, one of the first Ruby-on-Rails SAAS web applications. From being startup CEO to producing live performance music videos to consulting on a wide variety of projects, Patrick’s experience is incredibly diverse.
What People Are Saying
“Bob changed the course of life. He became the most valuable compass I have ever known.”
— Jonathan A.
“Working with Bob felt like seeing in technicolor for the first time.”
— Austin W.
“I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter. — from “Love Does”
FAQ
What makes me qualified for coaching?
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you are an executive who wants to lean into the next chapter. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, we can work through it with you.