My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Robin Parry, Ph.D.
Dr. Robin Parry is a management consultant specializing in organizational development and effectiveness, and strategy. In her capacity as management consultant, she works side-by-side with individuals at all levels of an organization. Robin serves clients in the private, public and academic sectors on improving the performance-productivity connection. Client organizations face a myriad of challenges associated with identifying and aligning strategy; enhancing communications systems, business processes and structures to optimize growth and effective performance over the long term. With a 30-year proven track record in the business management and education fields, client organizations retain Robin to achieve remarkable improvements within short timeframes. She has conducted numerous speaking engagements and workshops on effective communication and facilitation, resolving conflicts, effective coaching, performance management systems, organizational development, biotechnology transfer, and business ethics and etiquette.
Faculty Member
In addition to her management consulting, she currently serves as an adjunct professor at California State University—Fullerton teaching family business dynamics and organizational behavior at the undergraduate level. She has also served as an adjunct professor at the San Diego State University and California State University-San Marcos campuses teaching graduate-level and adult continuing education courses on effective leadership, organizational behavior, strategy, marketing, entrepreneurship, and management consulting. Robin began her career serving as a general management executive at the University of California—San Diego, which has historically ranked among the top five universities in the United States in terms of receipt of Federal research dollars.
Professional Accomplishments
She holds the CMC (Certified Management Consultant) designation from the Institute for Management Consultants, an appellation in the management consulting profession that signifies competence, performance, and ethics. She is a member of the Academy of Management (AOM), the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the American Society on Aging (ASA), the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), the Association for Psychological Type (APT), and the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC).
Professional and Community Activities
Robin’s professional and community activities are varied. These activities include serving as Chairman of the Board of Overseers and as a Trustee [ex-officio] for Lasell College, which is a private, independent institution in Boston, Massachusetts. Through her position as President of the Cambria Homeowners Association, she is also leading the transformation of a 235-unit housing community in San Diego, California whose real estate value exceeds $100 million. For San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care in 2006, Robin served as a Member on the Institutional Review Board that reviewed all social science and medical research protocols.
Education
Robin earned her doctoral degree at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California in 2004. She completed a full complement of coursework in the Peter Drucker Management Center on strategy, organizations and management systems. She then concluded her doctorate at the Center for Educational Studies where her concentration was higher education—policy, administration and teaching. Her dissertation, “Aging well in an educational environment: the role of required education for residents in a college-imbedded continuing care retirement community (CCRC)” was a multi-disciplinary study of a unique retirement community built on a college campus that required residents to complete and document 450 education hours per year. Robin also earned the “Preparing Future Faculty” Practicum Certificate from Claremont Graduate University and completed a specialized course in teaching and assessment techniques called “Course Design in Higher Education”. Her research interests include strategy, entrepreneurship and family business, organizational behavior, gerontology, and higher education. Robin holds an MBA from the Simmons College—School of Management in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Bachelors degree with Honors from the University of California—Santa Barbara in political science, with a public service emphasis.
