Robert Milligan

Dr. Robert A. Milligan is Senior Consultant with Dairy Strategies, LLC – a business, leadership and human resource consulting business focused on the dairy industry. Bob is also Professor Emeritus in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. At Cornell he was an award winning instructor in the currently 9th ranked undergraduate business program (U.S. News COLLEGE COMPASS Best Colleges 2012). Bob is best known in extension for developing and leading the PRO-DAIRY Program – a program that developed and taught leadership and management principles and concepts. These ideas and materials have been used throughout the country. Bob’s vision is to provide insight to managers by presenting complex human resource and business concepts in formats that are understandable and useable. Bob is a pioneer in Webinar teaching. He is co-author of a personnel management book for the Golf Course Superintendents of America and is a member of their teaching faculty and of the Cornell Dairy Executives Program. Dr. Milligan has received numerous teaching and extension awards including being named a J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise and the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Teaching Award of Merit. Bob lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.