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Robert Greene is an experienced consultant and leadership coach specializing in diversity- based organizational development consulting. His personal mission is to “help leaders harness the synergy of diversity and inclusion skills and principles with organizational development theory to dismantle systemic oppression and inefficiency and drive organizational excellence.”

Robert has been a thought leader in schools, for-profits and non-profits for more than 25 years, having served successfully as a teacher and administrator in educational organizations, trustee and director for non-profit and social entrepreneurship agencies and consultant to corporate and civic organizations. He also brings insightful thinking and consulting to issues ranging from strategic diversity and inclusion leadership, cultural competency skill integration, global education programming, wealth and social class disparities, and multicultural curriculum design to his current professional engagements.

Robert’s work has typically focused on organizational development; culture change; diversity and inclusion planning and strategy; strategic planning and culturally competent leadership development with boards of trustees; senior e x e c u t i v e / administrative team development; professional and leadership coaching; stages of team development in inclusive environments, cultural competency skill development, new consultant onboarding and training, and systemic integration of diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency efforts across all phases of schools and organizations.

Some of the organizations and professionals with whom Robert has partnered include: Belmont Hill School (MA), Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall), The Bush School (WA), Cal State University Northridge (CSUN), Catlin Gabel School (OR), Cerritos College (CA), (CT), (MA), Edwards Life Sciences (CA), Episcopal School of Dallas (TX), Evergreen School (WA), Francis Parker School (CA), Isaacson Miller, Lawrence University (WI), MRC Studios (CA), Menlo School (CA), (MA), Mirman School (CA), Pahara Institute (NextGen Leaders), Park School (MA), Philips Academy Andover (MA), (NH), Potomac School (MD), Princeton University Alumni Association (San Francisco), Reed Union School District (CA), Rippowam Cisqua School (NY), River Oaks Baptist (TX), Sage Hill School (CA), St. Ignatius School (CA), St. Margaret’s Episcopal School (CA), St. Mary’s College (CA), Seven Hills School (CA), Stern School of Business (NYU), Thacher School (CA), Trinity Episcopal School of Austin (TX), University Preparatory Academy (WA), Viewpoint School (CA), and Village School (CA) among others.

Midwest by birth, southern by heritage, east coast by education, and west coast by adaptation, Robert currently resides in San Francisco with his wife, a nationally-renown educator, and their two sons. He earned his Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and his B.A. in Economics, with a Political Science minor, from Brown University. Among other interests, he has served on the board of directors of Willow Creek Academy Charter School (Sausalito Marin City School District - CA), the board of advisors for Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Scholars Program -San Francisco, the board of the Bay Area Discovery Museum, an advisor for The Seven Teepees Youth Program and remains civically engaged throughout the Bay Area, currently serving on the Board of Directors for OnePurpose Charter School (San Francisco Unified School District).

Throughout his career, Robert has a l s o leveraged the experience and networks he gained professionally to drive increased access and equity for communities of color and for students/families from communities where educational organizations have been traditionally underserved. Robert was a founding co-chair of Beacon Academy in . Beacon (created in partnership with the Boston Public School System) is a one-of- a-kind model that created an extra year of schooling for “students of high capacity and low preparation”. Beacon students move from their additional year on to four years of rigorous high school and beyond. The first four classes of Beacon Academy students have now graduated from college and are changing the cycle of disenfranchisement for their families and communities, clearly embodying the slogan “14 Months that Last a Lifetime”. Robert is currently in planning and partnership to develop a West Coast version of this model in the Bay Area.