DIFFERENCE LEADERSHIP GROUP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Advisors
Amber Chand has developed a profound interest in issues affecting women's empowerment and economic security around the world
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- President
- DLG President
Dr. Simpson is a seasoned professional, executive and consultant who has served in a variety of senior executive leadership positions throughout his career. As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Brattleboro Retreat from 2006-2016 he led a significant turnaround that saw the organization become ranked by Modern Healthcare magazine as number 12 on its 2015 list of the 15 largest behavioral health providers in the United States.
Rob has the experiences of a younger man in leadership and those of an older perhaps wiser leader to bring to bear. He has spoken to many legislatures, been interviewed by many newspaper reporters, worked with regulators, interacted on policy with Governors, Senators and Representatives, reported to several Boards of Directors and worked in both non-profit and for-profit organizations, including start-ups. Having also owned his own businesses, he has carried forward an understanding of the need for innovation and entrepreneurship in any business venture.
He provides expert consultation to Board and Executive leadership to leverage strengths toward creating results-driven strategic implementation by coaching leadership teams to shift organizational culture. Discrete areas of expertise include system alignment after mergers, transforming teams of uniquely trained executives, driving innovation in complex medical settings, and coaching leaders to recruit, develop and retain key professional talent.
Rob Simpson, DLG President, has worked as a CEO in psychiatric hospitals and as a strategic consultant to Boards and Executive Leadership Teams. He has been recognized as a Grassroots Champion by the American Hospital Association and a Behavioral Healthcare Champion by Behavioral Healthcare Magazine. He has coached and continues to coach leaders throughout the country on the interface of strategy, mission and purpose and has partnered for close to a decade with Phil Harkins, Founder of Linkage, Inc. at the annual Global Institute for Leadership Development ("GILD") in leading the Senior Executive Leadership Team of CEO's from around the globe.
Background: As Co-Founder and President of The Difference Leadership Group, Dr. Simpson works to strengthen the critical role that leaders play in supporting organizational resilience and transformation.
A Focus on Visioning: Dr. Simpson works to strengthen the critical role that leaders play in supporting organizational resilience and transformation. Visioning is about exploring and finding the right expression of the specific purpose for the person, team and the organization at the right moment in time. He has spent his career being attentive to this theme, integrating the skills of a seasoned clinician honed by treating patients at all stages of life challenges with those of a skilled organizational leader. He pays attention to how to integrate the unique stages of a leaders growth and development with that of the Team they are building and leading in the context of the unique environmental factors influencing this process. His focus on assisting leaders to then establish psychological safety within their teams and in the coaching experience allows leaders to enact true transformation in themselves and their organizations.
Specific Leadership Skills: This means that he has had to develop the transactional skills of managing the Mission (focus, drive, technical skills, accountability) that are optimally unleashed by understanding and developing the transformational skills to unleash purpose (visioning, creating and managing purpose, creating inspiration, reinforcing a culture of resilience). The combination of these skills allows a leader to develop the ability to engage others in a shared meaning through a distinctive compelling voice and message surrounded by a sense of integrity and strong personal values, seasoned by an adaptive capacity and applied creativity and enacted by an ability to transcend adversity and emerge stronger than before by finding opportunity where others might find only despair.
Executive Leadership: He is extremely effective in assisting new and seasoned leaders to accelerate their onboarding experience, setting early expectations for developing a leadership presence through effective communication and targeted skill acquisition.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Advisors
- CEO and a Founder
- Founder of HawkPartners
Rob Duboff is CEO and a founder of HawkPartners. Over his 35 year career, he has worked with clients across virtually all industries and advised senior executives on a full range of strategy, brand and marketing issues. His focus is on helping clients develop effective initiatives and tactics, often using research and facilitation tools such as workshops to enable executive decision-making.
From 1999-2001, Rob served as Ernst & Young's Chief Marketing Officer with responsibility for all marketing activities of the then $4 billion enterprise. He also chaired the firm's Global Marketing Operating Committee. Prior to that, Rob was a Vice President and Board member of Mercer Management Consulting.
Rob co-authored the book, Market Research Matters, and wrote ROI for Marketing for the ANA in 2007. He has also written for such publications as Harvard Business Review, Marketing Management, and The Advertiser. He has chaired AMA's Marketing Strategy Conferences and is a past-chair of the Board of Directors for the Advertising Research Foundation on which he served for two terms. He is an experienced moderator and teacher who has taught at MIT's Sloan School, Boston University, Northeastern, Harvard University Extension School and Boston College.
He currently serves on the Boards of the Boston Book Festival and The Council for Economic Education.
Rob received a B.A. from Amherst College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Advisors
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Robyn Ostrander is a focused, innovative clinician and physician executive committed to guiding healthcare and other industry executives to leverage strengths and lead healthy teams toward results-driven quality. She has a medical degree from Harvard, trained in psychiatry at Dartmouth, and is board certified in both psychiatry and child psychiatry. Her experience working with both executive and clinical teams, deep knowledge of behavioral neuroscience, and medical leadership in entrepreneurial nonprofit hospital and large academic teaching hospital settings have equipped her to thoughtfully inspire leaders toward alignment with organizational goals, while pursuing personal and team success through accelerated performance.
Robyn has presented nationally on topics including leading change, coaching and mentoring, strengthening performance through highly functional teams, and developing emotionally capable leaders. She has connected with the lay community through regular radio commentary in three major markets, currently in Maine. In 2009 she co-authored a cutting edge textbook of neurocircuitry related to major psychiatric disorders.
Robyn is passionate about coaching executives, leadership dyads and teams toward awareness of dynamics, a multigenerational workforce, and how to shift organizational culture. Her areas of expertise include system alignment after hospital mergers, transforming teams of disparately trained healthcare executives, driving innovation in heavily regulated and ethically complex medical settings, and coaching leaders to recruit, develop and retain key professional talent. Her experience promoting attention to work-family balance among diverse staffs can propel executives toward trendsetting approaches to recruiting quality millennial professionals who are demanding new roles and career accommodations.