Laura M. Robinson, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Organizational, leadership, and business development professional specializing in partnering with executives and management to improve organizational performance. Provide consultation and coaching in a broad spectrum of functional areas, industries, and key result areas. To include: change adoption, organizational alignment, implementation and action planning, strategic planning, program planning and implementation, instructional and curriculum design, training, employee engagement, and performance improvement. Particular expertise in helping department leaders and business owners target the most impactful organizational optimization strategies and tactics, taking into account cultural and practical factors.

Performance consultant responsible for client engagement, consultation, and implementation on various projects tied to business impact.

Kennesaw, Ga

Acted as a trusted advisor to business unit leaders and senior management with the purpose of optimizing organizational performance. Provided department strategic leadership, operational oversight, and team leadership for team of performance consultants. Insperity is a leading provider of human resources and business performance solutions for small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. Insperity helps leaders improve business performance--focusing on establishing systematic methods of improving productivity and enhancing human capital performance (along with providing administrative relief, better benefits, and reduced liabilities). These leaders support more than 100,000 businesses with over 2 million employees, operating in 57 offices throughout the United States, representing six service regions. The company represents over $2.2 billion in revenues annually.

Houston, Tx (Hqr), Kennesaw, Ga

Served as a trusted advisor and coach to leadership, teams, and individuals. Consulted with leaders, and executed on plans to achieve business goals. Recommended and implementated change adoption, organizational development, and performance improvement interventions that were systematic, business and results-oriented, and customer and stakeholder-value focused.

Collaborated with management and workforce to turn strategy into execution through performance-based programs. Partnered with organizational leaders, and consulted with subject-matter-experts, to design, develop and implement performance-based programs and initiatives, resulting in measurable successes in key result areas. Areas of focus included: performance analysis, needs analysis, workforce design, task analysis, job design and documentation, and instructional design, development, and implementation. All efforts conceptualized through the lens of the human, as well as operational, side of the business.The Center for Effective Performance (CEP) is a global workforce performance consulting firm serving the world’s leading businesses, governments, and other institutions. As providers of the Criterion-Reference Instruction (CRI) methodology, CEP partners with clients to create and deliver transformational training programs leading to competitive advantage.

Supervised programming for the #1 nationally ranked customized training and workforce development organization in the US. Led programming in collaboration skills; leadership and human resource development; instructor training; quality and productivity enhancement; customer service; and performance consulting for the statewide economic development arm that resulted in over 1,000 learning events annually and provided skill building to over 30,000 “duplicated” participants each year.

Developed and supervised workforce development and technical education initiatives in a ten county region.

Ph.D., Educational Leadership And Policy Analysis

M.A., Adult, Continuing, And Higher Education

B.S., Education, English, Psychology