Karen Robbins
Senior consultant on collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and organizational structures, with an emphasis on partnership and social enterprise. Karen has provided legal expertise and negotiation skills to generate major aeronautics and space-related programs for over 20 yrs.

 

Karen Risa Robbins was the founder and CEO for twenty years of aconsulting/services firm serving government, industry, and academicclients.  With her legal background, she led a team that brokered andadministered high value R&D partnerships, complex change initiatives, andcollaborative programs.  She was the policy and legal architect of anunprecedented contracting model that promotes public-private sectorcollaboration.  

Karen negotiated andadministered aeronautics and space-related deals worth hundreds of millions ofdollars between NASA and private companies. She was the Process Facilitator forthe $11 billion federal program to modernize the air transportation system, whereshe played a key role in establishing governance and stakeholder relations. She structured and co-authored the agreement for FAA that established theNextGen Institute.  She was the initiatorof the UAV National Industry Team, and was instrumental in winning NASA, DODand FAA support for the $100 million dollar program to establish regulations fordrone integration in the national airspace.  She was a Senior Advisor tothe U.S. State Department on forming an international coalition of disastermanagers, the Global Disaster Information Network.

For over a decade she wasthe business manager for Dr. Doug Engelbart, winner of the 2000 TechnologyMedal of Honor and inventor of the computer mouse, hyper-text, and otherseminal computing achievements.  

Ms. Robbins serves as a senior consultanton collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and organizational structures, withan emphasis on partnership and social enterprise. 

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