Robin Reid

"My passion for life is to touch people with love, wisdom, humor and joy, and to make a difference!"

"Being with clients, friends and colleagues is all the same. Honesty, directness, understanding, and acceptance of them (and self) are the key elements for developing trusting relationships."
Robin Reid, M. A.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

ROBIN REID AND ASSOCIATES
Principal Consultant - 2003 - present

MANAGING PARTNER - 1988 to 2002
Reid Moomaugh & Associates, San Diego, CA

Facilitator of organization development interventions and management development workshops for Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, governmental agencies, and non-profit organizations.

Consult to business, industry and government emphasizing visioning, strategic planning, implementation of change strategies, team building, goal setting, motivation, conflict resolution, and leadership with CEO's, top teams, and middle managers.

Design and facilitate planned change activities for organization teams leading to improved effectiveness, greater efficiency, and higher employee satisfaction. Use of both small group and large group intervention strategies.

Design and facilitate feedback to Managers using tailored 360 degree feedback instruments, and published management style inventories. Conduct one-to-one coaching with managers on their performance and development.

Facilitate third-party mediation between managers and their subordinates, between peers in work groups, and for conflict resolution between teams and departments.

Administer Employee Attitude and Customer Satisfaction surveys to identify issues, to measure change in the organization, and to assess results of interventions.

Design and conduct cultural diversity educational sessions on the subjects such as the "isms," oppression, prejudice, and man/woman style differences. Focus is on the business case for diversity.

Design and conduct training of trainer programs for both internal facilitators and managers to increase organizational skills in problem solving, team building, and managing change.

Design and lead management development workshops on topics such as Leadership, Managing for Inspired Performance, Positive Resolution of Conflict, Conducting Effective Meetings and Creative Problem Solving.

Clients have included Coors Brewing Company, Armco Steel Corp, KN Energy, BP Chemicals (HITCO), International Paper Corp., McKesson Corp., General Dynamics Electronics Division, GDE Systems Inc., Coors Ceramics Co., Roseburg Forest Products, City of Carlsbad, CA, City of San Diego, Silicon Systems Inc, TVA Fire and Life Safety Inc., Unified Port District of San Diego, and the United States Navy. .

ORGANIZATION EFFECTIVENESS SPECIALIST - 1980 to 1988

City of San Diego, Organization Effectiveness Program San Diego, CA

Designed and conducted planned change and organization development interventions for several City of San Diego departments including: Fire Department, Parks & Recreation, Risk Management, Water Utilities, Building Inspection, Engineering, Energy Office, Equipment Division, Streets Department, and Department Head retreats.

TRAINER/CONSULTANT - 1978 to 1980

Quadar Associates San Diego, CA

Trainer and facilitator of Management Development programs for Fortune 1000 companies such as Contel, General Motors Corp., International Paper, Sanderson Farms, American Fletcher National Bank, and Armco Steel Corp.

COORDINATOR OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - 1974 to 1978

University Associates San Diego, CA

Manager of 7 full time and 30 part time consultants who conducted public workshops in North America. Responsible for turning 25% loss into 33% profit in less than three years. University Associates is considered to be one of the two premier Training of Trainer Firms in the United States.

Facilitator/trainer for all University Associates workshops.

ASSOCIATE DEAN OF STUDENTS - 1965 to 1974

Cornell College Mount Vernon, IA

Director of student activity programs and Student Union building. Counselor to students for their academic and personal problems.

Manager of 8 full time and 50 part time employees who provided student services to Cornell College.

Chairman of Student-Faculty-Administration Governing Board for four years, and advisor to Student Government, Publications, and Arts/Entertainment programs.

RESIDENT ADVISOR - 1961 to 1963

University of Colorado Boulder, CO

TEACHER of AMERICAN/WORLD HISTORY - 1961 to 1963

Wasson High School Colorado Springs, CO

FIRST LIEUTENANT, Adjutant General Corp - 1959 to 1961

United States Army Fort Bragg, NC

EDUCATION

Human Resource Development Certificate, 1974, University Associates, La Jolla, CA

Master of Arts, 1965, University of Colorado Boulder, CO

Bachelor of Arts,1959 Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

PUBLICATIONS

John E. Jones and Robin Reid, "The 2020 Organization," The OD Practitioner, Volume 25, No. 3, Fall 1993.

Thomas Packard and Robert Reid, "OD In A Fire Department: Lessons in Using Parallel Structures and Institutionalization," Consultation, Volume 9, No. 2, Summer 1990.

AFFILIATIONS

ODN Board of Trustees - 1997 to 2003
Chairman - 1998
Treasurer - 1999 - 2001
Strategic Planning Group - 2004 - to present

Member of Organizational Development Network - 1974 to Present

President of San Diego OD Network Chapter`- 1982 to 1983

Director of International OD Network Conference, San Diego - 1989

Co-founder of Reid-Jones Colloquies on Organizational Issues - 1992 to 1995