About the Founder

Bob Yates is a man on a mission! He is rapidly becoming one of America's top trainers in the field of personal and professional development.  He routinely works  with some of the top trainers in the world including Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy, Les Brown, Bob Proctor, Michael Gerber, Jim Rohn and others.

Bob is the Founder & CEO of Circle of Champions Seminars, a training corporation and ministry that is dedicated to equipping Christian Business Leaders, entrepreneurs, employees, and achievers for personal, professional, and business success.

PERSONAL PROFILE
Name: Robert M. Yates AGE: A blessed “47” Born Again: 1982 HOBBIES AND INTERESTS: Ministry, Pioneering, building businesses, life coaching & mentoring, traveling the world, networking with champions and achievers, reading, helping people to fulfill their divine destiny and making everyone around me better. NUMBER ONE PRIORITY: My relationship with God, my wife Sherry my daughter “Shayla” and my newest addition, John Robert.
LIFE’S MAIN FOCUS: My relationship with God! To be a shining witness of His grace and glory. To inspire others to live their God-Inspired dreams. To model excellence, integrity, honesty and ethics. To help others fulfill their divine purpose and destiny. FAVORITE PLACE: The Virgin Islands! The climate, the blue waters, the beaches. I believe God lives in the Islands. FAVORITE BOOK: The Bible

Bob Yates – The Visionary

2009 AAEW Legacy Visionary Award Winner

Bob Yates is a dynamic entrepreneur, speaker, radio personality and seminar producer with more than 25 years of life-transforming ministry. His captivating seminars such as Dare to Live Your Dreams, The Entrepreneurs Roundtable, Born to Speak and Blueprint for Success are challenging thousands of individuals and business leaders to elevate their lives and businesses to new dimensions.

Bob is the founder and CEO of Circle of Champions Seminars, Inc. a spiritually based personal development training corporation that equips entrepreneurs, speakers and community leaders for personal, professional and business success. His life and message has inspired countless individuals to believe that with God, all things are possible!

Bob has personally worked with some of the top trainers in the world including Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy, Les Brown, Michael Gerber and Jim Rohn to name a few.

Starting as a vendor on the streets of Washington DC, Bob learned the basics of business. The turning point came when he discovered the biblical principles and laws of success and put them into practice. Since then he has successfully formed and sustained several profitable companies. What makes Bob’s message unique is that he has never worked a day of his life in corporate America. Having an insatiable hunger to unlock his God-given gifts, talents and potential, Bob chose the road of personal development through books, tapes, seminars and specialized training. Through patience and persistence, he is now the CEO of one of the most impacting faith based personal development companies in the U.S.

Bob was recently nominated as the 2009 winner of the prestigious AAEW Legacy Visionary Award for African American entrepreneurs who are making an impact in the black community. While his work has received rave reviews locally, effective leaders around the country speak of Bob Yates and the Circle of Champions as having ignited their own leadership and modeled for them vital principles of success and personal achievement.

Bob has been a featured guest on numerous TV and radio shows including WYCB, Heaven 1580 AM, WFAX, KLDC (Denver) SBTV, CTV 76 and WTOP channel 9.

As a dedicated Christian, Bob has worked extensively in community outreach projects that include street crusades, prison ministry, helping substance abuse victims and feed the hungry programs.

Bob is happily married to his lovely wife Sherry who is his companion and helper in ministry and business. They have two beautiful children Shayla and John and they reside in Bowie, MD.