Rob Kesselring was born in Schenectady, New York. He graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder and earned a a Master’s degree in Organizational Development from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He lived nine years in the Canadian arctic where he was a teacher, registered wilderness guide and bush pilot.
Rob has led over 950 workshops for schools, organizations, and corporations nationwide. He is particularily adept at working together with groups faced with change or seeking renewal. Together with guitarist and singer/songwriter Dan Schwartz, he formed Uncommon Seminars LLC in 2007. ( uncommonseminars.com )
Rob has led sixteen canoe expeditions in the Canadian arctic, one which lasted 14 months. In 2010 he led a six week 760-mile canoe trip without resupply researching the decline of the central arctic caribou herds. He has made over 50 Boundary Waters canoe trips and has paddled over 100 rivers worldwide.
He is a founding member of the Heart of the Continent Wilderness Partnership and active in conservation and wilderness preservation efforts on planet Earth.
Rob has written five books and dozens of articles for outdoor magazines and professional journals.
He lives with his wife Susan in the outskirts of the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Rob is the father of five daughters, each of whom he took on an extensive daughter/father, coming of age, canoe trip when they turned fourteen. He counts these as five of the top ten most meaningful adventures of his life.
He enjoys canoe touring, freestyle canoeing, whitewater canoeing, nordic skiing, SCUBA diving and taking on new challenges.
His favorite saying is: “Never half-way”