Robin Denise Johnson

Robin Denise Johnson earned her doctorate in Organizational Behavior at Harvard. She wrote an award-winning dissertation on diversity, work-life balance and empowerment. Her other degrees are in International Relations and World History from Brown University, and an MA in Social Psychology from Harvard. She integrates her research-education with her professional experience in her multicultural leadership development programs. She is an educator, author and coach — working with people managers and leaders in major corporations, non-profits, and academia. She continues to work with UCLA-Anderson and UVA-Darden as faculty / faculty director in a number of executive education programs, and was a visiting professor with Ozyegin Graduate School of Business in Istanbul, Turkey. Prior to graduate school she worked overseas in international finance with Chase, McDonald’s Corporation, and Lloyds Merchant Bank.

Robin Denise Johnson was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and attended McKinley Tech High School. She worked summers at the Smithsonian Institute, went overseas for the first time as an AFS exchange student in Belgium where she attended the Koninklijk Atheneum in Tielt, Flanders, Belgium and returned to Brown University to complete her undergraduate university studies. She has maintained her strong commitment to intercultural understanding throughout her career. As an African-American female child of Civil Rights activists, she is also committed to diversity-inclusion for personal as well as equity reasons. As part of her work-life balance, she is a dancer, developer of Cardio-Tribal Style (CTS) dance, and director-choreographer of Zaltana.

Education

• Universiti Sains Malaysia (1976 — 1976)
• Koninklijke Atheneum, Tielt, West Flanders, Belgium (1973 — 1974)
• McKinley Tech

Companies

• Faculty, Director, Exec Ed UCLA Anderson School of Management (1998)
• Speaker / Coach Robin Denise Johnson, Ph.D. (1995)
• Faculty Director, Leadership Seminar NAMIC (2000 — 2021)
• Faculty, Director, Executive Education Self-employed (1995 — 2021)
• Visiting Professor, Executive MBA Program Ozyegin University (2011 — 2013)
• Associate Professor, Management Cal Poly Pomona (2003 — 2007)
• Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior University of Virginia Darden School of Business (1995 — 1998)
• Assistant Professor, Management Lesley University (1990 — 1994)
• Vice President, Capital Markets Group Lloyds Banking Group (1985 — 1987)