MEET ROBERT PRINCIPE
Education and Organizational Development Specialist
Robert has an amazing capacity to get professionals to think differently about their circumstances and help them realize success as it relates to their values.
Abigail Hurlburt, CPF, RICP, RLP
Owner, Summit Wealth Group, LLC
Professional Background
Robert Principe is the Founder and Principal of Organizational Change for Social Impact (OCFSI). Robert founded OCFSI as a collaborative staging ground for leveraging the best of what diverse populations bring to the work of creating greater health, vibrancy, and success in the workplace, in communities, and in learning spaces.
For over 30 years, Robert has supported teams and organizations in defining the best strategies to ensure the success of their initiatives and the long-term viability of their organizations.
Robert has spoken to hundreds of audiences all across the United States. He has held multiple leadership positions in the public and private sectors, most recently within the Executive Office of the Massachusetts Trial Court.
As a consultant and coach he has worked with a broad range of companies and organizations across multiple sectors including Aflac, Alzheimer’s Association, American Airlines, American Institutes for Research, Amherst Regional Public Schools, Assured Partners Insurance, Big Sister Boston, Carbonite, Inc., Colgate University, College of the Holy Cross, EMC Corporation, Farm & Wilderness Foundation, Ferris State University, Flint Michigan Community School Board, Hack. Diversity, Homesite Insurance, Lowell Community Public Charter School, Metropolitan Area Planning Council, Massachusetts Teachers Association, Planned Parenthood League of MA, Providence College, Rivier University, University of Denver, University of Missouri, and Xerox Corporation.
Robert’s innovative coaching model, 10 Principles Value-based Decision Making (Principe), has helped many leaders recognize the unconscious biases that can negatively influence their decision-making.
Robert “walks the talk,” and intentionally “thinks global, acts local” by serving in his hometown of Holliston, MA, as a member of Diverse Holliston’s Strategic Planning Team, and as Chair of the Town’s Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) charged with reviewing “town policies and procedures through a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens.”
His newly published book, Excuse Me While I Skip a Beat: Working to Reinvent My Life and Leadership as a White Guy, is a timely narrative that takes on the crisis of America’s divide. Offering a rich discussion of the skills and practices that can bridge the divide that defines us, Excuse Me While I Skip a Beat is a straightforward chronicle of a White guy questioning the inequity we live with, what to do about it, and how to act to create the change we need.
Whether you are looking for Keynote Speaking, Leadership Coaching, Organizational Consulting and Training, or Strategic Planning, all programming is tailored to the specific needs of your organization.
LEADING WITH COURAGE
IN DIVIDED TIMES
Revisting, Rethinking, and Reinventing My Life as a White Guy.
Why I Wrote
Excuse Me While I Skip a Beat
We the people are in crisis. This is what the nation’s headlines clearly tell us. Growing economic inequality is crippling more Americans, and the divide that defines us is decaying our public will. What might be the worst element of this current state of affairs is the fact that too many Americans feel powerless, and have become readily accepting of our deteriorating day-to-day. Where we have landed is unacceptable.
There are solutions, and White men need to get off the sidelines, roll up their sleeves, and bring their best to the arena of the social change we need.
