Robin Tucker, MBA, JD

Robin Tucker, MBA, JD is a catalyst for transformation in organizations, groups and teams. She is passionate about sustainability as a business model and the engagement of all stakeholder groups in an organization to transform the culture. She creates processes that respect the layers of organizational culture and harness individual difference to lead to breakthrough results. She believes in helping groups and teams create new ways of working and viewing what is possible.

Robin has a unique gift for facilitation and training delivery. She offers a combination of skills and experience in strategic planning, process improvement, diversity and inclusion, start-up operations and law. She has industry experience in healthcare, life sciences, clean technology, social networking and law and has worked with for profit, government and nonprofit clients. Robin provides facilitation as the single source provider or in collaboration with internal or external consultants leading ongoing project teams.

Robin has a rich and diverse background in management consulting in the healthcare industry, with expertise in strategic planning, market assessment, financial analysis and training design. She has lead project teams that designed innovative approaches to care delivery and developed long-range organizational strategies.

Robin helped build the National Diversity Program for Kaiser Permanente. In that role she participated in the design and development of national programs in the areas of market segmentation, culturally competent care and service, and workforce planning. The diversity strategy for the organization incorporated workforce surveys and responsive training interventions, intranet websites, telecasts, an annual national conference and a series of handbooks on culturally competent care. She is a certified gender communications trainer and successfully trained senior managers, union and non-union line staff, physicians and other trainers in managing diversity. As the principal of her own consulting firm she designed and delivered diversity training for workforce improvement, anti-bias training for lawyers and judges, diversity training for pharmaceutical sales teams, cultural competence training in the clinical setting, and team building in for profit and nonprofit companies. She has also researched and developed curricula covering topics on disparities in healthcare.

Robin has start-up company management experience as VP, Operations and Strategic Alliances for an e-health company; staffing the company with 50+ employees and going online in seven months. She also delivered 8.5 million potential customers through negotiated strategic alliances.

Ms. Tucker recently returned to consulting after two years as an associate at the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. She represented technology companies at all stages of development, from initial start-ups to early-stage public companies. Her practice included the negotiationsof technology transactions and patent agreements, merger and acquisition transactions, private placement equity and debt transactions, strategic alliances, recapitalizations, and other corporate transactions. In addition, she counseled entrepreneurs on the formation of their companies, equity structures, and negotiations with seed and venture capital investors. Her primary focus was on companies in life sciences, clean and renewable energy technologies and social networking internet companies.