Built a global media platform focused on leadership, culture, and personal development. Newsletter following of 200K, six bestselling and award-winning books, Top .1% Global Podcast (Elevate Podcast), courses, Mastermind (Elevate Club) keynote speaking, and articles with over 20M impressions.AUTHOR & WRITER, LEADERSHIP & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT• I publish several weekly newsletters on Substack (https://robertglazer.substack.com), including 'Friday Forward' which began as a weekly note to my team seven years ago. It has since expanded to reach over 200,000 readers in 180 countries, who frequently share it with family, friends, and teams.• #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of six books including Elevate, Elevate Your Team and Friday Forward.KEYNOTE SPEAKING • Keynoted for over 100 companies and organizations on themes related to business growth, culture, leadership, building capacity, and performance marketing. Representative engagements include EO & YPO Chapters, MD Anderson Cancer Center, State Street Bank, Cigna, Fortune & Bloomberg Scale-Up Summit, Lockton, Shop.org, Steel & Pipe Supply and Metronomics. • TEDx talk on "Eliminating Two Weeks Notice" with 100k+ views. TOP RANKED PODCAST• The Elevate Podcast is a Top 0.1% podcast globally focused on leadership and personal development. The show has a 4.9 rating with over 300 reviews and is part of the Yap Media Network. Guests include Seth Godin, Dan Pink, James Clear, General Stanley McCrystal, Angela Duckworth, Kim Scott, Allan Mulally, Bill George, Amanda Knox and Patrick Lencioni.MASTERMIND & DIGITAL • Elevate Club: Mastermind group of 100 global executives. • Built a paid Substack community approaching 1,000 subscribers in less than six months• Created Core Values Course course taken by over 2,000 people globally.

Lead AP's seven-person Board of Directors, M&A strategy, and development of the next generation of AP leaders. Founded in 2007, Acceleration Partners is the recognized leader in partnership marketing and a five-time International Performance Marketing Award (IPMA) winner in the “Best Performance Marketing Agency” category. Acceleration Partners manages programs in more than 40 countries for more than 170 brands, including Adidas, LinkedIn, Noom, Redbubble, and GoToMeeting. Acceleration Partners’ global staff of 270+ maintains a singular focus on delivering exceptional outcomes; and delivers deep and data-driven expertise in all key partnership marketing tactics, including affiliate, influencer, content, mass media, and B2B partnership marketing. In addition, Acceleration Partners has received awards for its exceptional culture, including "Best Workplaces" (Inc.), "Best Places to Work" (Glassdoor), and "Most Committed to Work-Life Balance" (Digiday).

Led Acceleration Partners to become a recognized global leader in the affiliate and partnership marketing industry, establishing best-in-industry processes for client acquisition, retention, culture, and service. During his tenure as CEO, Acceleration Partners grow topline revenue over 3000% over a decade and received more than 25 industry and company culture awards, including Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice, Digiday’s Most Committed to Work-Life Balance, and The Boston Globe’s Top Workplaces. Named to Glassdoor’s list of Top CEOs of Small and Medium Companies in the US twice, ranking as high as #2.In 2020, partnered with the leading private equity investor in technology-enabled marketing services, Mountaingate Capital, to lead a $100M+, five-year industry roll-up to build the leading global partnership marketing agency.

Advisor to CEOs and leadership teams of high-growth companies in e-commerce, direct-to-consumer, and digital marketing industries. Key areas of focus include partnerships, customer acquisition, M&A strategy, culture, and remote work. Current Roles• Pela: Board advisor to CEO and chairman of $100M+ consumer product company focused on eliminating waste. Advising company on growth strategy, sustainable customer acquisition, and partnership channels. • Rokt: Advise CEO and leadership team members of leading $2.4B e-commerce platform on affiliate and agency strategy. • Bucketlist: Member advisory board of fast-growing Canadian SaaS company in the employee loyalty segment. Work with CEO and board on growth strategy, retention, culture and leadership team development. • Clarion Events (Blackstone Group): Board Advisor, supporting GM of Affiliate Summit conference on growth strategy. • Sertify: Advise CEO on affiliate strategy. Sertify helps companies identify & support small & diverse-owned publishers.Past Roles• Lovepop, Button, Spreetail, Future PLC • G2 Technology Group, TwoTAP, and Social Fulcrum: Advisor to companies successfully sold to acquirers.

Member of the Global Council, led project to create recurring affiliate revenue streams for the organization.

Build is a national organization that uses entrepreneurship to ignite the potential of youth from under-resourced communities and propel them to high school, college, & career success.

YPO is the global leadership community of more than 30,000 members in 142 countries who lead businesses and organizations contributing USD 9 trillion in annual revenue.

Selected out of over 16,000 global applicants to participate in Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches Program (#MG100) to help pay it foward.

In December 2021, BrandCycle was acquired by Stack Commerce, a TPG platform, resulting in a 10x+ return to investors. BrandCycle is the leading dedicated publisher representation agency and platform, supporting emerging and well-known publishers in the affiliate marketing space with a white glove approach. BrandCycle connects high-quality content and influencer partners with top retailers, eliminating the frustration of working across multiple networks and programs. From 2016 to 2021, BrandCycle delivered 500% top and bottom-line growth and $50M+ in annual gross merchandise value.

Elected President of Boston chapter.

The Fifth Night (www.thefifthnight.org) is an annual event where young children learn to make a difference by donating a night of Hanukkah gifts to a chosen children’s charity.

Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay is the country's largest volunteer male mentoring organization.

Bobby's Best (www.bobbysbest.com) was the unbiased source for everyday product research and buying tips, getting to the heart of what's good and bad about a product without an overload of details. The site received over 80,000 visitors per month at its peak with a a global fan base and drove over $10M in online purchases.

The Big Brother/Big Sister Foundation is an independent $2.5M non-profit clothing and furniture donation business, which distributes its profits to the Big Brother and Big Sister agencies.

Chief Growth and Operations Executive for Boston's first and only network of centers offering programs and products for expecting and new families. Instrumental in growing the business from $50K in cumulative revenue to a 5M+, multi unit business. Key areas of responsibility included Operations/Finance, Partnerships & New Revenue, Systems & Technology and Real Estate Development.

Evaluating business plans, operations, financials, market dynamics and management teams for $2-3m private equity investments. Monitoring performance of existing investments and assisted companies with specific operational and strategic needs.

BrandStamp was the first online product registration service, offering a convenient service to customers while providing important customer data/insight for product manufacturers and retailers. BrandStamp was launched as a portfolio company of Cambridge Incubator (CIC)

Oversaw CI’s deal flow and assisted with negotiating terms for $500k to $1M investments in seed stage technology companies. Responsible for making investment recommendations to partners for allocation of $5M in investment capital.

Business Analyst, Strategy & Technology Consulting Practices