Robert Henderson serves as Principal Consultant for The Henderson Consulting Group—specializing in the development of high performance organizations and providing services in management consulting, organization development, executive coaching, leadership, change management and strategic planning. His clients have included CEOs and executive officers of such companies as American Express, AT&T, BP/Amoco, General Electric, Hallmark, Exxon, Memorial Hospital, Prudential, Rochester General Health System, Ohio Health, United Technologies, and Xerox, as well as the Chicago White Sox. His design and implementation of the “Wegmans Way to Manage” Program was an important element in Wegmans Food Markets being named # 1 on the list of “100 Best Companies to Work For” by Fortune Magazine.

Dr. Henderson is also a member of the development team of the Baharicom Development Company, co-builder of the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE)/Uhurunet submarine cable system. In its planned configuration, the 17,000-km-long fiber optic cable will stretch from France to South Africa and will be operational in the first half of 2013, connecting 18 countries to the Internet. The ACE/Uhurunet network will be a key driver of Africa’s social and economic growth, providing the region’s highest capacity submarine network. Under Dr. Henderson’s direction, Baharicom will establish philanthropic broadband capacity endowment to provide free connectivity to thousands of schools, universities and health care programs that cannot otherwise afford it.

Dr. Henderson is a member of the Board of Directors of the First Bank & Trust of Evanston, Illinois. He is Chairman of FBTE’s Investment Trust Committee and is a member of the Loan Committee. He served as Vice President of Board of Directors of the American Dental Association Foundation and chairs the Fund Development Committee for Give Kids a Smile, a national program that provides free comprehensive oral health care for over 400,000 children a year. He also served as oversight Board member of Health for Humanity, philanthropic healthcare organization-­providing medical services in Africa, China, Eastern Europe, South America and the United States.

He was Co-Founder and an Executive Officer of Air Atlanta, the first commercial jet airline in United States aviation history owned by African Americans.

Dr. Henderson was appointed a United States Federal Commissioner on the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission. At the invitation of President Bill Clinton he spoke to a White House Conference on Social and Economic Development and participated in a series of White House meetings on development strategy focusing on international debt reorganization and food security. He designed and led meetings of California Supreme Court members, judges, and lawyers to establish a California State Supreme Court Commission on Race and Ethnic Bias.

Robert Henderson holds a doctoral degree in Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and lives in Chicago with his wife, Paula, an artist and adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute. The Hendersons have three adult children.