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. Previously he served as Assistant Director for the Office of Public Engagement and managed Returned Volunteer Services as well as the Peace Corps Week program. In that role Robert led the development and execution of a matrix of repatriation services for 4000 former Volunteers returning each year from two-years abroad in a small community developmental setting.He worked for many years running an $8.5M business unit in legal publishing before serving overseas in southern Africa as a business advisor on a World Bank pilot project with the Peace Corps. He then served in the central Pacific for UNDP coordinating activities to establish the Foreign Direct Investment Agency to act as a one-stop shop for approving foreign investors and for promoting trade.
Listed skills include Organizational Development, Program Management, Program Development, Leadership Development, and 46 others.