After decades of private and public sector leadership service, Rob Weinhold continued his career mission of helping organizations during life’s most critical times by launching Fallston Group (FallstonGroup.com) in 2009. Fallston Group is a Baltimore-based executive advisory firm designed to help organizations and individuals build, strengthen and defend their reputations. Throughout his distinguished career, Rob has worked on the core executive leadership team at all three levels of government and privately on Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr.’s core executive team in Baltimore, Maryland. During his time at Ripken Baseball, Rob oversaw all aspects of Cal’s core amateur sports business, including sales, marketing, business development, sponsorships, brand experience, operations and design/build efforts. He led the vision to develop the organization’s first out-of-market, world-wide amateur sports destination presence in Myrtle Beach, SC.
During his public service career, Rob most notably served in a sworn capacity for the Baltimore Police Department and was ultimately promoted through the ranks to Public Affairs Director. He also served as Chief of Staff for the United States Department of Justice and senior executive within Maryland’s Governor’s Office. While in these roles, Rob also served as chief spokesperson for the entities he represented; Rob has conducted thousands of media interviews and is thought of as an expert leadership and communications strategist. Rob has been an on-air expert for CNN, FOX, MSNBC and many other international, national and locally affiliated media outlets. He is referred to as a crisis leadership expert.
Rob maintains deep executive experience; he has worked to optimize organizations at every level. His clients often refer to Rob as their CRO—Chief Reputation Officer—he operates at the critical intersection of leadership, strategy and communications.
Rob earned his graduate degree (MSM) from The Johns Hopkins University and undergraduate degree from the University of Baltimore, both marketing disciplined. Rob is nationally published and has trained and lectured in many diverse professional and academic settings. His new book, The Art of Crisis Leadership, was released in 2016. The book quickly rose to Amazon’s #1 release in both the Public Relations and Crisis Management categories while cracking the “Top 100“ in the prestigious Leadership category. Rob travels from the United States of America.
