Robert Brinkerhoff
Welcome to another great interview from the Linked:HR interview series! This interview was recorded by Liz Tomlin-Travis and Kathy Frank, my graduate students at the Adult Learning and Organizational Performance Master's program at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. This time you will hear from internationally renowned evaluation expert Dr. Robert Brinkerhoff.
Robert O. Brinkerhoff, Ed.D., is an internationally recognized expert in evaluation and training effectiveness and winner of the ASTD 2007 Exceptional Contribution to Workplace
Learning and Performance award and the 2008 Neon Elephant award for creative contributions to workplace learning.
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Dr. Brinkerhoff has provided consultation to dozens of major companies and organizations in the United States, South Africa, Russia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. He is creator of the innovative Success Case Method for evaluation of training, author of sixteen books on evaluation and training, and has been a keynote speaker and presenter at hundreds of conferences and institutes worldwide. Scores of leading corporations and agencies ranging from Dell Computer and Nike to the World Bank and Central Intelligence Agency have adopted his methods and tools for training effectiveness and evaluation.
Dr. Brinkerhoff earned a doctorate at the University of Virginia in program evaluation where he also coordinated a “street academy” for disadvantaged youth for four years. He is currently a
principal consultant and alliance partner with Advantage Performance Group and Professor emeritus at Western Michigan University.
Brinkerhoff’s work experience includes a five-year stint as an officer in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam era, a carpenter, charter-boat mate in the West Indies, grocery salesman in Puerto
Rico, and factory laborer in Birmingham, England where he saw the original Beatles. He has four children, thankfully mostly chronologically grown, and lives with his wife and several unruly dogs
in Richland, Michigan. He can be reached at robert.brinkerhoff@wmich.edu.
