Bob began coaching a girls' basketball team when he was 16 years. Since then he has coached in many sports, including track and field, orienteering, soccer, cycling, and equestrian. He began using long-range planning in his coaching in the 80's at a time when he worked as director with a staff of 50 at a home for aggressive mentally handicapped adults.
  His educational background includes 10 years of study in sociology, psychology, and education, as well as many coaching courses, the latest being ICCs certification course. He claims, however, to have learned most from the people he has coached and students he has taught. He has taught at sociological, educational and nursing institutions, but has also given many courses and presentations for small sports clubs in Sweden and Canada, the Austrian national orienteering team, Austrian national coaches and many other groups.
  His major focus changed in the early 80's when he learned about systematic mental training and assisted Lars-Eric UnestÃ¥hl with a number of his projects. Lars-Eric has conducted during the past 50 years, and still carries out, much pioneer work in the areas of mental training and coaching. He founded the Scandinavian International University in 1990. In the late 80's when Bob was chairman of the Swedish Orienteering Coaching Association, he began ecouraging all orienteers to find someone who they could use as a coach.
 

Bob now encourages everyone to find a coach. Of course today, there are many coaches who do have extensive education. There is, however, a major problem in deciding who to engage as a coach since anyone, who wants to, can call themselves a coach, even if they have neither coaching education nor coaching experience. In addition, as in many other areas such as teaching, it is not always the person with the most formal education that is the best at helping others.

Bob's own sports activities include competing on Canada's orienteering team between 1970 and 1976 and winning a European Championship in Track & Fieldd in his age group for the 800m in 2009. Until he was 21 years he was also very active in hockey and basketball.

He has coached the Canadian orienteering team and the Australian orienteering team as well as many, many individuals. Particularly during the years (1976-1980) when he was development coordinator for cross-country skiing and orienteering in Nova Scotia, Bob instructed 100's of young people. Bob also trained and drove a few horses in harness rqaacing, probably being the first driver to have an accident in his first professional race.

Bob has also experience as a teacher at a boys' training school in Canada (1965-66), as a supervisor of a unit at a Swedish training school (1984-86), and a postman, as well as setting up and running an optometry business in a Swedish plaza (2003-2009).

In general, Bob says that the most fun is helping other people to achieve satisfaction with their life and to be thankful for all the great opportunities that we can create for ourselves.