Robert Watts, Jr. Psy.D.
President and Chief Solution Officer (CSO)
As founder, President and Chief Solutions Officer for Watts and Associates, Robert proactively seeks innovative ways to successfully deliver value driven products and services to our clients for the benefit of all our stakeholders.
Robert has over 18 years of experience as a corporate consultant, executive coach, and university professor. His expertise as an organizational change/development consultant has enabled him to successfully lead broad scale and single subject interventions for a diverse clientèle of small business to Fortune 500 companies across various industries, as well as non-profit entities, including major colleges, universities and charitable organizations. He is the author of the book “People Are Never the Problem”, upon whose principles we have successfully transform the lives and cultures of many executives and organizations.
Robert is the recipient of many awards for teaching excellence, and athleticism. He received the acclaimed Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award from the great state of California and was inducted into the Boston College Varsity Club Hall of Fame for athletic excellence. Robert was also named to several college All America Teams, the East West Shrine Team and North South Senior Bowl team. Before a spinal cord injury ended his professional career he enjoyed being a member of both the New Orleans Saints and the Oakland Raiders.
Robert holds a bachelors degree in Speech and Communication from Boston College, a Masters Degree in Speech and Communication from San Francisco State University and Doctorate Degree in Organizational Psychology from the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management, Alliant International University.
Robert is certified to administer and interpret personality assessment tests including the Myer’s Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), D.I.S.C., Fundamental Interpersonal Relational Orientation – Behavior (FIRO-B), California Psychological Inventory™ (CPI™) assessment and the CPI 260®, The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), and others.
Robert is most proud of being a cancer survivor and touching People’s lives with his story of triumph over his greatest life challenge and being a father to three very wonderful children.