Bob McDonald Visit Re-Cap To Ukraine For Its VA Best Practices
Monday morning I was up at 5:30 a.m. in my hotel room in the Hyatt Regency Kyiv in Ukraine. I exercised in the hotel fitness center and cleaned up. I met my host John Boestler, CEO of Combined Arms, at 8:30 a.m. We were driven to the veterans hospital Lisova Polyana in the Obolonsky district […]
The Leadership Potential of War Veterans
Bob McDonald was recently interviewed by UATV during his visit to Ukraine to talk more about how the year-old The Ministry for Veterans Affairs can model itself after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. McDonald who is the former CEO of Procter & Gamble, and, the eighth United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs shared insight […]
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13th Annual Stand Up for Heroes
It was an honor for both Diane and I to attend the 13th Annual Stand Up for Heroes event organized by the Bob Woodruff Foundation in the Hulu Theater of Madison Square Garden in New York City November 4, 2019. I also attended the Leadership Council meeting of the Bob Woodruff Foundation that morning, kindly hosted […]
Bob McDonald VA Portrait Unveiling
We walked over to the VA headquarters building before 4 p.m. Once we walked in the door, Diane and I were inundated with our former colleagues and friends. We introduced our daughter Jenny and her husband Scott Rowland. First it was the members of Protocol, then our photographers, then our Special Agents, and then office […]
National Veterans Resource Center Tour
Thursday morning Ray Toenniessen, Associate Vice President of IVMF, picked me up and took me to the new National Veterans Resource Center, a new building on the Syracuse campus that will house IVMF and its resources. It is a beautiful new building, funded primarily by a donation by Dan D’Aniello, Co-Founder of Carlyle and Chair […]