About Robert Lahm

Robert Lahm began his professional career by honing an array of corporate marketing management skills in advertising, public relations, and research related positions. He has also previously founded entrepreneurial businesses, including an advertising map publishing company (as a co-founder), a career service and a marketing firm to service the strategic planning and communications needs of business-to-business, consumer, and public sector clients.

He has taught at both the MBA and undergraduate levels, addressing subjects such as organizational change, management of technology and innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship. He earned his doctorate degree at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

Presently, besides Web site development and public speaking, Dr. Lahm’s strategic planning and organizational development practice interests emphasize helping organizations stimulate creativity and innovation in order to proactively manage change in challenging times. He suggests that we were all much more capable and creative as children, and his interventions serve to “reverse the constraints on thinking new thoughts” that years of cultural conditioning tend to reinforce.

As a seasoned “organizational troubleshooter,” he is able to rely on concept development, facilitation, and consensus building skills to create new ideas and solutions to challenges of all kinds. Be prepared to have your own and your organization’s assumptions challenged!

Dr. Lahm has founded entrepreneurial ventures such as Lahm & Associates, a marketing firm he started from scratch in 1988—beginning with no capital, clients, or creative portfolio. Despite the obstacles he faced, he has successfully won and delivered projects for numerous clients in higher education, banking, real estate, magazine and specialty publishing, technology products, retailing, consumer, and business-to-business markets (although he ceased his full-time involvement with this firm in 1992, he sometimes handles marketing communications and related projects on an as needed basis).

He previously worked within the media as a Director of Market Research with a top-50 metro area newspaper, where he was responsible for fostering economic development initiatives and disseminating information to a variety of business and community organizations, including major retailers such as Circuit City, Wal-Mart and Macy’s. Prior to this, he held positions of increasing responsibility in advertising, product, and marketing management servicing busines relationships in Los Angeles and the greater New York metropolitan area.

The above experiences as well as initial career positions, “on the front lines of service,” have made him able to easily relate to individuals at all organizational levels, from the factory floor to the executive suite.

Dr. Lahm graduated cum laude, earning his B.S. in Management Science, and holds both his Ph.D. and M.S. Degrees in Human Resource Development (with a specialized research emphasis on organizational work cultures, leadership, and change), which he completed while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. While attending graduate school he provided consulting services for the very faculty members who, on other days, were his professors. He also served as a management consultant and change agent, assisting the Continuing Education Division to “reinvent” its corporate training business. As a crowning achievement to his graduate program, Dr. Lahm’s work was honored when he received the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, 2000 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research, for his groundbreaking work on the role of interpersonal “chemistry” in hiring.

Among other sources, he has been previously recognized in several Who’s Who publications, including Who’s Who in Advertising, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Who’s Who Among Young American Professionals, and Who’s Who Worldwide.

At home, he is an avid chef, and he enjoys painting and studio photography.