Robert Easton

Robert (Bob) Easton has been with Accenture for 19 years, he is a Senior Managing Director. For the past several years Bob has led Accenture’s relationship with two global healthcare companies and prior to that he has been involved in several large complex transformational programs. Bob also holds the role of people advocate for Accenture’s Diamond Client forum (which covers ~50% of Accenture’s 370,000 people) and is the Quality Assurance partner for a key element of Accenture’s human performance transformation. Bob is well known for the contributions he has made to building trust based relationships. He is the creator and designer of the Ways of Working program implemented at two large Global companies and he has personally trained over 1000 Client and Accenture people and several executive teams. This program recognizes that strategic partner relationships require positive interventions to enable them to flourish. His essay “Creating a Positive Deviance of Trust” was published as the conclusion in the book “Trust Inc: Strategies for building a company’s most valuable asset”. For the past three years (2014, 2015, 2016) Bob has been named on the annual list of top thought leaders in trustworthy business, published by Trust Across America – Trust Around the World. He received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Victoria University (NZ), a graduate diploma in psychology from Massey University (NZ), a Master of Defence Studies degree from Deakin University (Australia), a Master of Business Administration from Macquarie University (Australia), and a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Bob is also currently enrolled in a Doctorate in Management and Design of Sustainable Systems at Case Western where his research focus is on measuring flourishing of collectives in workplace organizations (teams, units, and organizations). Bob also has been awarded two fellowships: Doctor of Management Design Fellow and Fellow, Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, Case Western Reserve. Bob lives in Princeton New Jersey and is active in assisting charities in the local Princeton area. You can find him on LinkedIn.