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Bob has spent twenty years in industry and fifteen years in teaching and consulting roles. He is currently Graduate Faculty of Management at the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. In this role, Bob is responsible for teaching graduate level courses in both the MBA and Masters of Human Resources (MHR) programs. Formerly, he was the Director of the Management Development Institute and Adjunct Faculty at Eckerd College - an affiliate of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) - in St. Petersburg, Florida, Director of Executive Education and Corporate Services and Instructor at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania and Director of Human Resources for BellSouth Communications, Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama. In his extensive business background, Bob previously directed the Human Resource function for BellSouth Communication, Inc. (BCI). In this role, he was responsible for all facets of people management practices including, staffing, selection, performance management, benefits/compensation, labor relations, organization development, and training and development. Most importantly, he played a strategic role in representing the human resource function in overall company planning and operations. His personal teaching expertise and research focuses on human resource management, performance management, organization development, organization behavior, training & development, career management and enterprise consulting. He has taught in formal classroom and/or executive education settings at The University of Alabama, Cornell University-ILR, Eckerd College, The University of Minnesota, The Pennsylvania State University, The University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, The University of Alberta, Canada, Wilfred-Laurie University, Canada and Rollins College. He has also been a conference speaker with Towers-Perrin, AAA, Linkage, SHRM Florida, and T-Mobile Dr. Prescott has personally worked with such companies as AAA, ARAMARK, Conoco, Deloitte & Touche, Delphi Automotive Systems, Estee Lauder, Federal Reserve System of the U.S., Internal Revenue Service, Lockheed Martin EIS, Merrill Lynch, The National Basketball Association (NBA), Olive Garden Restaurants, Pitney Bowes, The Social Security Administration, T Mobile, Walt Disney World and the U.S. Army. His extensive international work has been with companies such as Groupo Industrial de Monclova, Mexico, Mavesa de Venezuela, Minerven, PDVSA, Bermuda Employers Council, and The University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Bob is a native of Birmingham, Alabama, holds a B.S. in Marketing from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. in Workforce Education and Development from The Pennsylvania State University. He is an Emeritus member of the Board of Directors of The Human Resource Planning Society (HRPS), the Cornell University ILR Board of Advisors and current member of The Board of Advisors for The College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. He is a general member of HRPS and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Prescott is a graduate of the Human Resource Executive Program at Penn State University and a life certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). He is fluent in English and proficient in Spanish. Bob co-authored the books The Strategic Human Resource Leader: How to Prepare Your Organization for the 6 Key Trends Shaping the Future (Davies-Black, 1998) and HR Transformation: Demonstrating Leadership in the Face of Future Trends (Davies-Black/SHRM, 2009). |
