Since its inception in 2009, Mr. Robinson has served as President of the Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Development Institute, a local think tank and developer of community leaders trained in the tenets of Dr. King. Nearly 250 emerging and experienced professionals have completed the program and continue to serve in various positions of leadership throughout the Commonwealth, neighboring states and as far east as India, and as far west as California. Most recently, he led a coalition of local for-profit and non-profit leaders to secure $3 million dollars of county funding through the American Rescue Plan Act. 

Currently, he is a Strategic Consultant with Dame Leadership providing executive coaching and diversity training.  Also, since 2021, along with the Leadership Harrisburg Area CEO, he has jointly developed and delivered DEI training throughout the region to over 6,000 participants in both the public and private sector. Notably, over 3,000 people have been trained in Robinson’s leadership model outlined in his book, 7 Leadership Imperatives from a Wild Man (Judson Press, 2008).  He is a sought after facilitator, mediation expert, and keynote presenter.

He formerly served as Executive Director of the South Central Pa. Sickle Cell Council for 12 years, following his retirement from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation with 26 years of service, last serving in a senior management position as Chief of the Performance Improvement and Metrics Division.

He serves as VP of the Harrisburg Public Schools Foundation, NAACP Executive Committee, New Birth of Freedom Boy Scout Council, annually raising over $50K as chair of the Harrisburg Breakfast, and Governing Board of the Central Penn College. An active member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, he was chosen Commonwealth of PA Big Brother of the Year in 2013. In 2019 he received the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Outstanding Service by a Citizen award and Leadership Harrisburg Area’s Platinum Servant Leader award in 2021.

Because of his breadth of community involvement the Patriot News invited Robinson to serve as a monthly guest columnist in 2011. He has appeared as a guest on PCN’s “Public Affairs Call-In Program,” WGAL Terry Madonna’s “Pennsylvania Newsmakers,” WITF Scott Lamar’s “Smart Talk” and Allentown, Pa talk show host Tony Ianelli’s “Business Matters.” In 2019 the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) broadcast live, statewide, his presentation, “Dr. MLK: The Man, The Myth, The Martyr,” which has been rebroadcast annually for the past five years.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in English at the University of Virginia (UVA) and in 2016 was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters for Community Service by Central Penn College. He has also served as a Central Penn College adjunct faculty member teaching African American History, and was invited to speak for the “Batten Hour” at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He is a 2011 graduate of Leadership Harrisburg’s, 25^th Anniversary class. He has served as an ordained deacon of The Greater Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Harrisburg, PA, since 1986 and has served in many capacities, including the first Director of Ministries for 70 ministries of the church.

Married to Edna M. Robinson, their son Michael resides in Kuwait, with wife Seneca; daughter Brittany, graduate of Howard University, resides in Bowie, Md. with husband, Rejinal Bernard and their children, Elijah Joseph, Harper Judith, Xavier Alexander, and Rose Kerlande Arius. His extended family includes his BB/BS “little,” Dontae Davis.