Robert Quashie is an original thinker and a transformative executive who excels by championing digital technology with Agile and Lean methods, breaking down functional-silo barriers, and aligning competing agendas.Robert has held increasingly impactful senior leadership positions at the American Dental Association. He is currently Senior Vice President of Operations, directing membership and IT divisions and serving as lead of the operations-oversight senior management team. He works to empower a network of entrepreneurial, Agile teams while maintaining benefits/scale of centers of expertise and divisional structure. He collaborates with department heads to measure and achieve plan goals for member growth, financial stability, organizational capacity, and public influence. Robert has been instrumental in helping the ADA navigate the COVID crisis while driving the reversal of a 14-year decline of dues revenue and raising member Net Promoter scores to 10-year-highs.After graduation from Grinnell College, Robert began his career with Ketchum Public Relations, where he executed programs for lifestyle brands Miller Beer and Absolut Vodka. Following a stint at Dayton-Hudson Corporation, Robert led the diversity-marketing practice for the Chicago office of Edelman Worldwide. He later oversaw the engagement-marketing practice for Burrell Communications, helming key accounts including Verizon, Toyota USA, and McDonald’s. He also has substantial experience consulting to a wide range of U.S. and international corporate clients, delivering results in project management, marketing, operations, technology, and strategy. Robert brings a markedly global cultural perspective to creating organizational success. Crediting a mother who coded, a father who served as managing director of a major gold-mining concern, an uncle serving as Ghana's ambassador to the US and the UN, and a grandfather who owned his own shoe shop, Robert developed international sensibilities and exposure at an early age, along with hands-on experience in small businesses and community development. A father of three highly creative individuals, Robert is an avid gardener and deep believer in the power of a liberal-arts education to positively shape the lives of young people from marginalized and underserved communities.