Dr. Alonford James Robinson Jr.
Founder & CEO of Symphonic Strategies Inc
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Dr. Robinson is the Founder and CEO of Symphonic Strategies™ Inc., a research, training, and consulting firm that specializes in solving collective action challenges. Symphonic Strategies™workswith people from all walks of life to help them lead and transform the organizations and communities around them. Dr. Robinson leads a team of diverse and gifted individuals who specialize incapacity building, monitoring and evaluation, instructional design, and organizational learning. The company servesleaders inthe public and private sectors.Throughout his career, Dr. Robinson has advised and worked with leaders in the public and private sectors all around the world.
Among the departments and agencies he has worked with at the federal, state, and local levels include the USDA, FDA, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Customs & Border Protection, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Office of Naval Intelligence, Department of Defense,Administrative Office of the Courts, Corporation for National and Community Service, and more. His clients in the private and social sectorshave included such names as AARP, ABN Amro Bank, Adobe Systems, AIG, Avon, Bank of America, BMW, Caterpillar, Children’s Defense Fund, Clinique, CVS, Delta Airlines, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, Fujitsu, Goldman Sachs, Heineken, Heinz Endowments, IBM, Kauffman Foundation, Management Board Secretariat, Marriott Hotels, MasterCard, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center, National 4-H Council, Open Society Foundations, Pepsi, SAIC, Scandinavian Airlines,The California Endowment,Tyson Foods, Volvo, Walt Disney Resorts& Parks, Warner Brothers Studios, Yahoo!, and more.
Dr. Robinson began his career as a global faculty member for theCorporate Executive Board(CEB), a leading international business strategy firm. While at CEB,Dr. Robinsondelivered keynote remarks and led organizational strategy seminars with C-level audiences (CEO, CMO, CTO, etc.) in more than 150 organizations in over a dozen countries throughout Europe and North America.His areasof expertise includedcorporate strategy, marketing, and human resource management.After nearly a decade at CEB, Dr. Robinson left to become a senior strategist and advisor tothe Children’s Defense Fund, a prominent non-profit organization. He spent two years in that role,building the organization’s national infrastructure, modernizing its communications platform, and building multi-sector partnerships and coalitions. Over the course of his career, Dr. Robinson has been a consultant to the PBS show Frontline, served as a staff writer on the Encarta Africana Encyclopedia of the Black Diaspora, and was a member of the Heinz Endowments’ African American Men andBoys Advisory Boardand the Open Society Foundation’s Leadership and Sustainability Working Group. In addition to his consulting work, Dr. Robinson also delivers regular seminars and courses to public sector leaders in federal, municipal, and local government agencies. He currently spends a portion of his time asan adjunct professor atthe Center for Excellence in Public Leadership (CEPL)at the George Washington University and a Lecturer in the Customs and Border Protection Leadership Institute with the Robert H. Smith School of Business at theUniversity of Maryland. Hiscourses and seminars include topics that range from strategic management, organizational transformation, executive decision-making, and leading change initiatives. Dr. Robinson holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and dual bachelor’s degrees in social psychology and political science from Stanford University.
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Dr. Robinson is the Founder and CEO of Symphonic Strategies™ Inc., a research, training, and consulting firm that specializes in solving collective action challenges. Symphonic Strategies™workswith people from all walks of life to help them lead and transform the organizations and communities around them. Dr. Robinson leads a team of diverse and gifted individuals who specialize incapacity building, monitoring and evaluation, instructional design, and organizational learning. The company servesleaders inthe public and private sectors.Throughout his career, Dr. Robinson has advised and worked with leaders in the public and private sectors all around the world.
Among the departments and agencies he has worked with at the federal, state, and local levels include the USDA, FDA, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Customs & Border Protection, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Office of Naval Intelligence, Department of Defense,Administrative Office of the Courts, Corporation for National and Community Service, and more. His clients in the private and social sectorshave included such names as AARP, ABN Amro Bank, Adobe Systems, AIG, Avon, Bank of America, BMW, Caterpillar, Children’s Defense Fund, Clinique, CVS, Delta Airlines, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, Fujitsu, Goldman Sachs, Heineken, Heinz Endowments, IBM, Kauffman Foundation, Management Board Secretariat, Marriott Hotels, MasterCard, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center, National 4-H Council, Open Society Foundations, Pepsi, SAIC, Scandinavian Airlines,The California Endowment,Tyson Foods, Volvo, Walt Disney Resorts& Parks, Warner Brothers Studios, Yahoo!, and more.
Dr. Robinson began his career as a global faculty member for theCorporate Executive Board(CEB), a leading international business strategy firm. While at CEB,Dr. Robinsondelivered keynote remarks and led organizational strategy seminars with C-level audiences (CEO, CMO, CTO, etc.) in more than 150 organizations in over a dozen countries throughout Europe and North America.His areasof expertise includedcorporate strategy, marketing, and human resource management.After nearly a decade at CEB, Dr. Robinson left to become a senior strategist and advisor tothe Children’s Defense Fund, a prominent non-profit organization. He spent two years in that role,building the organization’s national infrastructure, modernizing its communications platform, and building multi-sector partnerships and coalitions. Over the course of his career, Dr. Robinson has been a consultant to the PBS show Frontline, served as a staff writer on the Encarta Africana Encyclopedia of the Black Diaspora, and was a member of the Heinz Endowments’ African American Men andBoys Advisory Boardand the Open Society Foundation’s Leadership and Sustainability Working Group. In addition to his consulting work, Dr. Robinson also delivers regular seminars and courses to public sector leaders in federal, municipal, and local government agencies. He currently spends a portion of his time asan adjunct professor atthe Center for Excellence in Public Leadership (CEPL)at the George Washington University and a Lecturer in the Customs and Border Protection Leadership Institute with the Robert H. Smith School of Business at theUniversity of Maryland. Hiscourses and seminars include topics that range from strategic management, organizational transformation, executive decision-making, and leading change initiatives. Dr. Robinson holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and dual bachelor’s degrees in social psychology and political science from Stanford University.
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