Robert Michon Email & Phone Number

Currently, Robert is with the NIH Training Center: which delivers agency-specific training, career development programs, and customized consulting. He also offers coaching services, targeting junior to senior-level careerists, wherein he works from a holistic perspective to assist individuals in overcoming self-imposed ceilings and to serve as unique contributors aligned with the NIH mission. In addition, Robert launched NIH's highly-successful Mid-Level Leadership Program; a year-long undertaking by "Vanguard Leaders" to advance the knowledge and acuity of these mid-level staff serving on the front-line in implementing programs to improve the nation's health. Robert manages an all-NIH speakers series of nationally-renowned experts providing meaningful insights into leadership and management concepts, challenges, and solutions. The seminars provide NIH employees the opportunity to advance their knowledge of best practices in a variety of leadership and management issues. Robert formerly managed the Management Intern Program, a two-year fellowship focused on developing NIH's future administrative professionals, managers, and - ultimately - leaders.

In this role Robert fulfilled and consistently gained high marks in execution of following functions: • Team Leadership • Development of Comprehensive Training System • Organizational Management • Program Leadership • Program Monitoring and Evaluation • Internal/External Outreach and Collaboration • Customer Relations• Capacity Development and Improvement • Planning and Budget• EEO/Affirmative ActionPartnerships and Constituency Relations• Develop synergistic intra-agency partnerships for mutual programmatic support in DC, U.S., and around world. • Successfully conceived, defended, implemented, and managed cooperative agreement to establish national mentoring program available to 3500+ annual returnees. • With other federal agencies, including OPM, developed strategy for leveraging returnee non-competitive eligibility to enable numerous rapid hires for participating agencies.Program Development and Capacity Building• Revamped repatriation system impacting over 3,500 annual returnees. • Expanded direct assistance by developing 4-day quarterly transition conferences in DC featuring expert presentations, interactive workshops, and recruitment events. • Chief facilitator and trainer for 4-day transition conferences. • Successfully lead integrated budget and strategic planning process, and implement limited resources to meet, and in many cases exceed, unit’s annual operational goals.Management • Foster culture of excellence and high-performing teams that understand and share tactical goals and strategic vision. • Act in accordance with government policy and agency decision. Communicate and ensure adherence by staff, returnees, and partners.Organizational Development• Proven record of exercising initiative to resolve operational and policy issues affecting unit and agency.• Strategically developed comprehensive suite of resources to more accurately respond to constituent’s identified needs and interests.

Organizational Development• Increased service offerings for Peace Corps’ foremost career center to better serve 2,000+ returnees using its resources each year.Program Development and Capacity Building• Introduced regular workshops focused on, inter alia, job searching skills, federal job application process, and networking best practices. 500 returnees participated each year. Partnerships and Constituency Relations• Implemented first-ever direct career and transitional counseling services for returnees, and negotiated with local experts to provide their services on pro-bono basis.

Project Management• Coordinated and supervised preparation and presentation of various rural land holdings.• Prepared demonstration, marketing, and web-based materials for selling land holdings.

Program Development and Capacity Building• Recruited by UNDP to develop, implement and initially manage foreign direct investment (FDI) promotion agency. On an average annual basis, less than 25 Americans are selected out of 5000 other nationalities for UNV assignments. • Advised senior government representatives and facilitated development of draft national investment policy statement to fall within criteria of Tuvalu’s 25 year development plan.Management• Guided formation of strategic plan by host country staff that established vision and mission, product and target market, and strategy for marketing to both local and foreign investors.• Selected and mentored FDI agency staff.Partnerships and Constituency Relations:• Recommended and ran national FDI forum—National Investment Conference—attended by Members of Parliament, senior civil servants, department heads, community leaders, and private sector members to develop necessary FDI framework.

Management and Organizational Development• Oversaw daily transactional and marketing operations for Imports and Exports customer service function while supervising staff of five employees.• Managed contractual and marketing relations with strategic overseas partners.• Successfully recommended to senior management - based on my fiscal and strategic analyses - redeployment of this function. Thereafter developed and executed transition plan.

Program Development and Capacity Building• Coordinated small and micro enterprises support for World Bank pilot facility consisting of business training, extension services, and sector promotional activities. • Advised and mentored over 100 entrepreneurs, small business owners, and NGOs on marketing, business, and strategic matters.Training and Adult Education• Created and taught curriculum for Marketing at national Lesotho Agricultural College.• Conducted 10 business and cross-cultural training modules for incoming Peace Corps recruits.

Management• Developed and managed revenue, expense, and capital budgets for an $8 million business unit. Barclays was listed in INC, Magazine’s List of Fortune 500 Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies in United States from 1991 through 1995.• Directed overall planning, scheduling, loading, and delivery program for production, printing, and fulfillment functions of this fast-growing company. Organizational Development• Analyzed and implemented equipment, staffing, and management requirements for new customer services department. • Researched and identified appropriate technologies for new subscription fulfillment system to control 15,000 orders per week and for exporting 70,000 customer records.

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