ST. LOUIS, MO / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute, a St. Louis-based leadership ...

He didn’t just fix a struggling business. He changed how leadership is defined.

Barry-Wehmiller’s Bob Chapman believes one overlooked leadership skill fueled his company’s global success — and could help end today’s disengagement problem. Employee disengagement has reached crisis ...

Robert D. “Bob” Chapman, 91, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 21, 2026, surrounded by his loving family. Bob was born on May 1st, 1934, in Caribou, Maine. He was raised on the family farm, ...

Chapman became the senior executive of Barry-Wehmiller, a global supplier of capital equipment and consulting services across a broad range of industries, in 1975, when he was 30 years old. After ...