Robin Engel is a strategist with an extensive multi-sector background in non-profits, government, politics and higher education. Robin founded Star Insights with an extraordinary group of executive advisors to help executives further the missions of the organizations they lead.

Serving as a high value thought partner for exceptional leaders is Robin’s specialty. It’s a skill he developed as a lifelong student and practitioner of leadership. He’s advised CEOs, senior executives, board members, college presidents and elected officials. He is able to quickly understand and appreciate the complexities faced by individual leaders and help them envision and navigate a productive path forward. Robin’s decades of experience leading high profile and complex projects in fast-paced and rapidly evolving environments helps him support clients, teams and coalitions through challenging circumstances toward a common goal.

Robin’s background includes time as an executive with the City of Los Angeles where he served as Assistant City Administrative Officer. Robin’s counsel was invaluable to the CAO’s direct oversight of the City’s $8.1 billion budget, and he served as an effective partner for achieving systemic reforms that improved government services and eliminated a billion-dollar deficit.

During his decade working in higher-education, Robin directed the masters in public administration programs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and served as a senior administrator to the presidents of Mercyhurst University and Pine Manor College. On a dozen political and issue campaigns in the 1990’s, Robin was a campaign manager, senior advisor and field director. He also led partnership development for AARP Experience Corps.

Robin laughs the hardest and loudest in the company of his talented wife and entertaining dogs.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Founding Star Insights and creating a different kind of consulting practice where he can bring people together to do some good in the world.

Credentials

• Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
• Bachelor of Science from Mercyhurst College