Episode #027: Crazy Ideas Fueled by Purpose with Andrea Robinson

How the collision of artistic creativity and law school produced an award-winning entrepreneur. 

In this episode, Andrea Robinson shares her journey that shaped her scaling a business that in the very early days earned her the reaction, ‘you must be crazy’! The company she founded, Robinson Global Management, advances innovative, ethical, sustainable & complex procurements globally.  She shares how people reacted to the concept of ethical and sustainable procurement in the early days and how she continues to spark creativity in her team and herself.

Andrea is the Founder, President & CEO, Principal Consultant of Robinson Global Management, a Women Business Enterprise Council Canada (WBE Canada), and Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC) Certified company.  She received a 2020 WBE Canada Leader Award for exemplary leadership and community contribution and received the 2019 WBE Canada Rising Star Award for economic, business, and innovative impact in the diverse supplier community.  She is a well-known practitioner in the Canadian public sector procurement area. Her projects include, affordable housing, water and wastewater treatment plant upgrades, solid waste management redevelopment, renewable energy planning and diversification, transit and roads, healthcare systems, and hospitals, educational, recreational, and international competition facilities, military, and secure asset redevelopment.

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