Speakers’ Profiles
Rob Beachy is a certified New Product Development master practitioner and consultant whose resume includes heading the New Product Development efforts at General Electric, GNB, and The Toro Company. Rob, a frequent speaker and planner for PDMA International Conferences as well as a moderator for Advanced Workshops, is also a guest faculty member at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.
Rob has been a successful practitioner and consultant to a variety of B2B and consumer industries including medical instruments, tires, aircraft, consumer electronics, banking, batteries, food, adhesives, appliances, HVAC, gas turbines, animal feeds, fertilizers, packaged goods, candy, toys, lawn and garden, power tools, not for profit service companies, personal care and many more for nearly 30 years in the area of New Product Development implementation processes and has over a dozen patents bringing in over $10 billion in revenue.
Dr. Harvey A. Robbins is a licensed psychologist, whose critically acclaimed books include “Why Teams Don’t Work (winner of the Financial Times/Booz Allen Hamilton Global Business Book Award)” and “The Accidental Leader.” His broad experience provides his clients with training in leadership skills, management skills, team leadership skills, high performance team building as well as consulting in leadership effectiveness, team effectiveness, change management, and executive coaching.
Harvey has held executive positions at Burlington Northern, Honeywell, and the CIA and is currently a Fellow of Executive Education at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His clients include numerous corporations and state and federal agencies such as the U.S. Treasury, ATF, American Express, AT&T, Allied Signal, FMC, 3M, IRS, Johnson & Johnson, Southern Company, Target Stores, Toro, U.S. Secret Service, and the U.S. Customs. He has also presented at many national and international conferences in the areas of team and leadership effectiveness.