Robert L. Lippert

Dr. Lippert is a financial economist who has held corporate, consulting and academic positions in the areas of finance and strategy. He has more than two decades of business experience around the world. Robert is also the coauthor of The New CFOs: How Finance Teams and Their Leaders Can Revolutionize Modern Business coauthored with Liz Mellon, David C. Nagel and Nigel Slack.

Through executive education, consultation and executive coaching, Robert assists organizations in developing and executing strategies to achieve sustainable financial success. Robert has been on the faculty of Emory University, Georgia State University, Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. He has won numerous teaching awards, published extensively, taught and consulted in 50 plus countries and been Key Note Speaker at numerous events across five continents. He currently designs and delivers a variety of Executive Education courses for DukeCE, Emory, UCLA, UNC-Chapel Hill, and University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. Among others, clients have included: AbbVie, Alcatel, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, BCBS, CenturyLink, ComcastNBCU, CVS, Enterprise Ireland, Farmers Insurance, HP, Home Depot, IBM, KPMG, Owens Corning, PWC, Samsung, U.S. Navy, UPS and Verizon.

Robert has also coached senior executives in the areas of strategy, finance and business acumen. These sessions were typically provided to senior executives who have had a narrow career path and/or executives changing industries or companies. The one-on-one coaching is typically a combination of face-to-face, on-line and phone meetings. The coaching is intended to close specific gaps in knowledge or experience and begins with the identification of key desired outcomes and the process by which to achieve them.

In addition to being a faculty member, his work in executive development, consulting, and executive coaching, Robert was interim CFO and Vice President of Strategic Planning for the Seibels Bruce Group, a publicly traded holding company, which specialized in insurance-related activities. His primary duties in these capacities were to manage the acquisition, integration and divestiture of existing businesses; oversee the formulation and implementation of the corporate strategic plan; manage the business planning and budgeting process; co-manage a multi-million-dollar investment portfolio; and interact with Wall Street analysts, investment bankers and investors in the financial community. Robert earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of South Carolina and a BSBA from Xavier University.