Bob Joseph

Bob Joseph, founder and president of Indigenous Corporate Training Inc., has provided training on Indigenous relations since 1994. He assists thousands of individuals and organizations each year in building Indigenous relations. His Canadian clients include all levels of government, Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, including the World Bank, small and medium-sized corporate enterprises, and Indigenous Peoples. He has worked internationally for clients in the United States, Guatemala, Peru, and New Caledonia in the South Pacific. In 2006, Bob facilitated a worldwide Indigenous Peoples' round table in Switzerland, which included participants from the United Nations; Australia; New Zealand; North, Central, and South America; Africa; and the Philippines.

Bob has worked as an associate professor at Royal Roads University and has routinely been a guest lecturer at other academic institutions. He has an educational background in business administration and international trade and is a certified Master Trainer, who, in May 2001, was profiled in an annual feature called “Training: the New Guard 2001” by the American Society of Training and Development. Bob was one of nine trainers selected for the feature from over 70,000 members who come from more than 100 countries and 15,000 organizations.

Bob is also the author of books and resources about working with Indigenous Peoples, including 21 Things™ You May Not Know About the Indian Act, Indigenous Relations, and Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples^® (the latter two co-authored with Cynthia F. Joseph).

Bob is an Indigenous person, or more specifically, a status Indian. He is an initiated member of the Hamatsa Society and has inherited a Chief’s seat in the Gayaxala (Thunderbird) clan, the first clan of the Gwawa’enuxw, one of the eighteen tribes that make up the Kwakwaka’wakw. Bob is anticipating holding his inaugural potlatch to confirm his Chieftainship in the near future. His Chief name is K’axwsumala’galis, which, loosely translated, means "whale who emerges itself from the water and presents itself to the world."