Wes Rhea’s life and career has taken him to many places—from professional wrestling to the corporate world and to academia.
The Sprayberry High School graduate recently published a book about those experiences and to help others with career transition entitled “Off the Top Rope,” and on Dec. 9 he’ll have a book signing.
That event will take place from 12-4 p.m. at the 2nd and Charles store (815 Ernest Barrett Parkway).
He tells us his book is “geared towards helping people with career development and career transition with faith and a positive approach as well as my journey from a professional wrestler to a corporate executive to a university professor. I thoroughly enjoy helping others and I feel my book would be an inspiration.”
Rhea is a part-time information systems instructor at Kennesaw State University, his college alma mater. After high school, he was a professional wrestler from the late 1980s to the early 1990s (on his website, there’s a photo of him with Muhammad Ali stemming from those days).
He earned an MBA and law degree and became an executive in the telecommunications, financial and health care industries.
Rhea also was a senior lecturer at KSU teaching in the undergraduate and executive MBA programs and has served as a career coach.
In a recent profile in the Cobb in Focus magazine, Rhea said that “I’m not sure too many people go from being a professional wrestler to a C-level executive to a college professor. Probably not the most straightforward path; however, that seems to be the way I do things. Hey, it may not be the track for everyone but it allowed me to live a semi-charmed life.”
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