ROBERTS CONSULTING INC.

The people who make up Roberts Consulting, Inc. are all part of the same family.

After a long career in higher education, the ministry and the world of big business. Bill Roberts founded the practice in 1993. For several years he worked solo.

In the late 1990s two of his three sons, both of whom live in California, joined him. David and Matthew were deeply engaged in the practice - sometimes coming back east to assist Bill, but more often working either alone or as a two-person team with clients in California. They were developing "Roberts Consulting, West Coast."

One of their major clients was Ernst and Young, for whom both David and Matthew became "knowledge workers" for a distinctive consulting program called the Rapid Decision Center (RDC). After a certain period of time Ernst and Young came to David and offered him a permanent position with the RDC. Once he joined Ernst and Young, he was not available to work with Roberts Consulting.

Matthew continued to work for the company for a few years, but then he decided to get more training in his specialty - creativity training using insights from the world of the arts. He enrolled in an intensive one-year program in Physical Theater at the Dell Arte School in Blue Lake, California. During that year he did very little consulting. After graduating, he began to take on constantly more challenging assignments in the theater and became a member of the faculty of Berkeley Rep Theater in Berkeley, California. In the fall of 2004 he entered a Masters of Fine Arts Program in Theater in Acting at the University of California at Davis. Throughout all of this time, Matthew has been teaching in high schools, at universities, for professional theatre companies, and at UC Davis.

Matthew continues to fly back east to work with selected clients, bringing his incredible creativity and teaching skills to train leaders in both general communication and in uncovering imaginative solutions to issues of effective leadership. He also works with clients in the Bay Area. Much of his attention is directed to the demanding program at California, Davis. (See most especially the pictures of an incredibly powerful workshop using masks.)

During this same period of time the other member of the consulting team, Melissa, retired from twenty years as an educator - both as a teacher and as a social worker. She has gotten deeply involved activities in the City of Middletown, most importantly as the President of the Friends of Long Hill Estate, the site of the stunningly restored Wadsworth Mansion. Primarily through her effective work, the Friends sponsor many activities each year, including a summer concert series that is sometimes called Tanglewood in Middletown. You can learn more about all of this by looking at www.WadsworthMansion.com