Robert Spencer is the founder and senior facilitator of the Institute for Human Development incorporated.

Robert is an experienced facilitator and coach who brings to bear a wide range of experience in communication and leadership strategies. For twenty years he has partnered with companies both large and small developing high performance leadership teams. He has experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, accounting, aerospace, and defense.

Robert attended Michigan State University where he was degreed in the fields of psychology and sociology. Today he lives in Central Florida and is active in ASTD and the local Chamber of Commerce. He enjoys getting away to Western North Carolina mountain country as often as possible.

Artistically Robert is a nature photographer and he is currently working on a photo book depicting the four seasons of western North Carolina.

Organizational Bio
In Robert's experience he has often witnessed strategic plans fall short of the corporate needs as they are not effectively communicated between the C-suite and the people responsible for implementation. Robert utilizes this breakdown as the leverage point for building trust, opening communication, breathing life into the vision and positively impacting the bottom line.

Robert has eighteen years of experience working with government and healthcare providers. As a psychiatric Social Worker he experienced one on one contact with patients and later as a front line leader he learned the importance of tapping into the potential of everyone on the team.