Publishing Icon, Former CEO of Hearst Newspapers, Bob Danzig to Speak at 12th Annual Luxury Real Estate Spring Retreat

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1395778700SEATTLE, WA USA – From foster child to President of a multibillion dollar company, Bob Danzig has a lifetime of experience and wisdom to share with attendees of the 12th Annual Luxury Real Estate Spring Retreat. After graduating from high school with no family support, Bob took a job as an office boy at his local newspaper, the Albany (N.Y) Times Union. Nineteen years later he became publisher of the Times Union, before heading to the helm of the Hearst Newspaper Group where he spent two decades as nationwide head of The Hearst Newspaper Group and vice president of the Hearst Corporation.

1395780495Now an accomplished author and motivational speaker, Bob is also a member of the teaching faculty at the prestigious New School University and the guiding hand of the Hearst Management Institute. His goal is to be an instrument for renewed affirmation that every single person is worthwhile. A civic leader, Bob has served on the board of directors for Albany Medical College, Siena College, Russell Sage College, St. Peter’s Hospital, Sunnyview Hospital, Albany Institute of History and Art, and Caldwell College. In addition to graduating magna cum laude from Siena College, he received the Outstanding Alumni Award, as well as an honorary Ph.D.

As an industry leader, Bob has served the Newspaper Association of America, Newspaper Advertising Bureau, New Directions for News and the American Press Institute, and has earned industry-wide respect for his innovative marketing leadership. Bob was awarded one of 12 professional journalism fellowships at Stanford University, the only business executive ever to be accepted into this program. Bob is the author of nine inspirational books and is working toward adapting his adult-focused program, The Confidence Academy, for children. His net speaking and author fees are donated to foster children (his passion) and gifted young musicians (his wife’s passion)

The 12th Annual Luxury Real Estate Spring Retreat, one of four annual networking events hosted by Luxury Real Estate, will be held April 27th-30th in Fort Lauderdale, FL USA. For more information on Bob Danzig, please visit http://bobdanzig.com.

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Known in the industry since 1986 as the Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate network, a global collection of the finest luxury real estate brokers in the world, this group of more than 130,000 professionals in more than 85 countries collectively sells in excess of $190 billion of real estate annually. Members are selected by Chairman/Publisher John Brian Losh, one of REALTOR Magazine's 25 Most Influential People in Real Estate and broker of fine properties and estates through his Seattle-based brokerage firm, Ewing & Clark, Inc. Luxury Real Estate has been recognized by the Webby Awards, has received “Best of the Web” by Forbes Magazine, honored with an ADDY Award for Excellence in Web Design, deemed “Best Website” by consumer surveys, ranked in the Inc. 5000 List, noted as one of the 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies by Puget Sound Business Journal, and recognized by the Maggie Awards.