Shari Robbins

Research interests

• Organizational behavior
• Culture transformation
• Change management

Education

• MA in Sociology, Boston College
• BS in Psychology, George Washington University

Biography

Shari Robbins is a part-time lecturer at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She earned her bachelor's in psychology from George Washington University and her master's in sociology from Boston College. Robbins has lectured for over 10 years on Organizational Behavior, Workflow Analysis and Change Management to graduate students in various programs. She has published an article by the Journal of Healthcare Management entitled “Portion Control Opportunities: Real Time Gains in Hospital Patient Throughput” that discusses strategies focused on how to break down a large project into manageable pieces to make an often-overwhelming big picture attainable.

She has partnered with hospital executive leadership to lead key strategic and operational initiatives for organizations with complex challenges. She has performed studies in virtually every hospital department, with a focus on ambulatory care including physician practices and emergency departments. Her technical contributions include extensive evaluation of health system organization structure/span of control, labor productivity, workflow analysis, and comprehensive project management to achieve the specific goals of the organization.

Robbins is a member of the consulting team at Vynamic, an international health care management consulting company that simply believes there is a better way. Made up of five sectors — health plans, life sciences, providers, healthcare technology, and public health — Vynamic has over 200 experienced team members whose approach, both internally and with clients, focuses on actionable strategy, operational intelligence, and healthy culture. Using her prior project work as real-life examples, Robbins runs project management seminars for both state and national health care societies, as well as customized, on-site seminars to meet her clients' needs.

Robbins grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

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