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.