Dr. Robert Milligan
Senior Consultant, Dairy Strategies, LLC.
Professor Emeritus, Cornell University

Area of Expertise

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, Cornell University. At Cornell he was an award winning instructor in the 4^th ranked undergraduate business program (2008 BusinessWeek ranking). 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.

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Professional Experience

Honors and Awards
National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Teaching Award of Merit, 2000
J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise, 1998
NYS Association of Agricultural Agents Award of Recognition, 1996
Gamma Sigma Delta Certificate of Merit, 1992