Our Team

MessageBuilders is a group of experts dedicated to helping you grab your audience, make your point, and get action. We have available:

• Wordsmiths create tag lines, sound bites, and pithy phrases.
• Editors help you find the misteaks in your words.
• Writers craft words for your brochures, papers, and websites.

Bob Bailey

Bob Bailey is our President. He also does most of the coaching and wordsmithing. He has been an independent for over five years and worked with speakers extensively long before that.

Bob helps high level business leaders project power, presence and persuasion. He helps executives establish emotional bonds with their audience so they come away feeling good. "If the audience likes you they will follow you anywhere and buy anything from you."

Bob helps high tech business presenters communicate to produce results - the first time and every time. A former software developer, marketing manager, and sales manager, Bob has the knowledge and experience to help executives reach their goals by delivering polished, focused, powerful presentations. He has helped professionals get consistently better results.

His technical background helps the high tech speaker translate technical jargon into language that is technically meaningful yet persuasively effective. Bob is outstanding at creating analogies, translating features into benefits, and making it meaningful for the audience.

Bob believes that most presenters worry too much about their issues. Symptoms are nervousness or overconfidence, lack of preparation, unclear goals, and inadequate audience analysis. He helps his clients fix those problems.

Bob is the Presentation Coach for the Storyboard Project (co-sponsored by Interboard, Potomac Knowledgeway Netpreneur Program, and the GMU Technology Resource Alliance). He makes sure every word counts and every speaker appears strong and confident.

Bob began presenting and coaching after he founded Washington Whitewater in 1978. He has been active in the National Speakers Association DC (NSA-DC), formerly the National Capitol Speakers Association (NCSA). In 1996, Bob's colleagues showed their respect for his work by choosing him to present at NCSA's prestigious Speakers School .

According to Mark Twain, "It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." Today's managers and entrepreneurs don't have that kind of time to prepare; Bob can help you maximize your preparation time. He can help you create and deliver powerful, polished presentations that achieve your goals. Isn't that why you came to the event?