Randall Rollinson

Randall Rollinson is President of LBL Strategies, Ltd., a full service strategic management education, consulting and software development firm.  Since 1985, LBL has served more than 2600 clients in a wide range of industries with practical strategy facilitation, development and execution services.  LBL often works with geographically dispersed leadership teams to achieve their goals by delivering solutions to the ultimate barriers challenging today’s leaders: time and distance.  LBL has a special interest in working with industry associations, county and municipal governments, as well as organizations in the agriculture, rural advancement, and senior living industries.

Over the years he has specialized in strategic management consulting, teaching and software development.  His body of work includes the Certificate in Strategic Management Program, which won the 2001 Exemplar Award from the International Association for Continuing Education and Training, as an “exemplary, outstanding results-oriented program.”

From 1985 – 1999 he collaborated with DePaul University and then the University of Illinois at Chicago to offer an award-winning five-month Certificate in Business Administration program built around the principles underlying LBL’s Management through Applied Planning Process  (MAPP ®). 

In this capacity, he taught strategic management and board development to more than 1,500 business owners and executives. He designed and developed a certificate program for minority and female business owners for the Chicago Transit Authority, a five-part executive education program for the Air Conditioning Contractors of America and a certificate program for nonprofit managers. In 2002 and 2003, LBL partnered with the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Tooling & Manufacturing Association in Chicago to offer a co-branded version of the Certificate in Strategic Management Program targeted to small and mid-sized manufacturing firms.  LBL is now partnering with the Strategic Management Association and the Association for Strategic Planning to offer an online, eight-session version of the program to strategy professionals and executives.  www.csmlearning.com

He periodically teaches strategic management in the MBA program at the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In this capacity, he completed an eighteen-month project in Poland for the U.S. Agency for International Development.  He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Organization Management offered by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

He and his business partner, Diane Rollinson co-founded Rosebud Software Systems, Ltd., in 1995 as a targeted vehicle to develop complementary strategic management software products and services including an easy-to-use (Software as a Service) Internet tool named MAPPware.  www.mappware.com

Mr. Rollinson holds an MBA in Management / Information Systems from DePaul University, a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Southern Illinois University.  He has taken advanced certificate level training from DePaul University in executive information systems and project management.  He recently completed the Certificate in International Trade Program from the World Trade Center of Illinois.