Rob O'Brian: Workplace Mentoring Connects Kids with their Future!

Rob knows a thing or two about the need for workplace mentoring involving our kids.

Listen as he and I discuss programs he has seen and why the need is greater than ever to connect our kids' present to their future!

Rob O’Brian, CEcD has nearly forty years in local and regional economic development. During his more than 20-year tenure as president of the Joplin (MO) Area Chamber of Commerce, he led the development of the largest business park in Southwest Missouri, created a small business innovation incubator, and collaborated

with the local community college and Workforce Investment Board to establish an advanced manufacturing training center. Rob also developed a seven-county

economic development partnership, including counties in the adjoining states of Kansas and Oklahoma. Rob was also instrumental in the effort to bring a new 600-student medical college to Joplin, the first new medical school in Missouri in more than fifty years!