Bob Reinheimer serves as Executive Director at Duke Corporate Education and shares responsibility for leading the organization’s efforts to design and deliver educational experiences for the company’s global clients. In addition to his design work and his responsibilities for developing other members of the organization, Bob specializes in teaching about building competitive advantage by aligning leadership, people, values, processes and systems to effectively accomplish business unit strategy. His areas of expertise include leadership effectiveness, creating and sustaining innovation, management communication, collaborative negotiation, and aligning human performance and company strategy.
Bob is deeply involved in the design and development of executive education strategies and programs for corporate clients who seek to utilize education as a vehicle for individual and organizational change. Bob has taught for over fifty different clients and programs in his thirty years of corporate education experience. He is frequently involved with international audiences having taught in over twenty different countries. His focus at the moment is to do extensive design and delivery work for companies like Linde AG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, ING, and Verizon.
From 1983 to 2001, he served as Professor of the Practice of Management at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. During his seventeen years as a Fuqua faculty member, he served as Associate Dean for New Executive MBA Ventures and began the effort to establish worldwide sites for Fuqua to use in launching internationally focused Executive MBA programs. As a member of the Fuqua faculty, Bob designed and led the individual effectiveness program that built communication, influence, teambuilding, coaching, and managerial effectiveness capabilities among MBA students. The Individual Effectiveness Center still exists today and is frequently cited as the outstanding example of how a business school curriculum can improve the interpersonal skills of managers.
He also served as Associate Dean for Executive Education and shared oversight responsibility for Fuqua's Executive Education business from 1991 to 1998. During those seven years, he was responsible for the Program for Manager Development and a variety of customized programs. He led the design effort for Siemens AG's Management Learning programs, a benchmark example of education-driven change. These programs combine face-to-face activity with on-line education to create a set of learning events throughout the Siemens organization. He has designed and delivered executive education programs in leadership, building high performance organizations and collaborative negotiation for Eli Lilly and Company, Burroughs Wellcome, GlaxoWellcome, Siemens, Deutsche Bank, and Johnson and Johnson.
Prior to coming to Duke, Bob served on the faculty of The University of Virginia and the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
Bob earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.
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