Bob Zima

Bob Zima is a self-proclaimed “Frequent Flyer to Hell and Back."

His engaging and entertaining style allows him to seamlessly weave his “E-True Hollywood Life Story" into his “rollercoaster-esque” keynote addresses, workshops and seminars. Bob is a licensed clinical professional counselor who has published two books and produced two videos on grief, loss, and healing. He publishes a blog and hosts as podcast as well. Both the blog and the podcast feature Bob's cathartic satire, through which he shares and explores his own socially unacceptable emotional tensions and cognitive perceptions.

Bob has personally experienced and lived through the crisis and trauma of alcohol and drug addiction with twenty years of recovery, financial devastation/bankruptcy & homelessness with a toddler and a kindergartner, infidelity and near divorce and the death of two infant children.

He has also backpacked through Europe, talked with the Pope, played basketball with Michael Jordan, was selected as the clinical site supervisor of the year in Illinois and has his picture taken with the Stanley Cup. Booyah!

So needless to say, his trips TO Hell ARE accompanied with trips on the highway of healing..,.thus making the “Back” part of his tagline the real story and the focus of his books, videos, blog, podcast and live stage shows.

Bob received a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School located in Deerfield, Illinois. He has worked in the counseling field since 2006 as a private practitioner, clinical supervisor, program developer and compliance manager. His therapeutic programs have been nationally recognized by JCAHO and NAMI.

Prior to returning to school for a masters degree, Bob worked in the advertising, corporate communications/marketing and broadcast media industries as a producer, director and writer for seventeen years. From print to CD-ROM to video and Internet based training, if you needing it communicated to customers, employees, and/or stakeholders Bob and his production house, Killer Whale Integrated Media, were the people to call.

From 1990-1992 Bob trained and performed with the Players Workshop of Chicago's Second City. He also performed comedy with Comedy Sportz and Improv Olympics in the early 1990's. He wrote a teleplay, The Madcap Murder of Mortimer D. Banks, which featured Second City players and air on cable television in the 1992.

Bob's passions include a love for Hockey, NASCAR and the Professional Bull Rider's Tour.