Shari Robbins

(she/her)

Part-Time Lecturer

  • Change management
  • Culture transformation
  • Organizational behavior
  • Strategic planning
  • Workforce development
  • MA in Sociology, Boston College
  • BS in Psychology, George Washington University

Shari Robbins is a part-time lecturer in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. She has lectured on organizational behavior, workflow analysis, and change management to graduate students across Northeastern for more than 15 years.

Robbins has a proven track record of delivering attainable results to hospital executive leadership and has led key strategic and operational initiatives for organizations with complex challenges. She has performed studies in virtually every hospital department, with a focus on ambulatory care including physician practices and emergency departments. Robbins' technical contributions include extensive evaluation of health system organization structure/span of control, labor productivity, and workflow analysis; she has also focused on workforce development and comprehensive project management to achieve organizational goals.

In 2025, leveraging her executive experience and passion for organizational behavior, Robbins became certified as a professional coach and founded Robbins Advisory — a consulting firm that provides executive coaching and targeted workshops to executive and professional services leaders. The firm aims to bridge personal wellness with business performance to directly impact culture, retention, and operational excellence for organizations.

Robbins is an active board member of ACHE of Massachusetts and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts.  She grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

  • Project Management in Healthcare; Developed and delivered 10+ CEC courses for the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association
  • Women in Leadership Conference Moderator: Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association (MHA) Burlington, MA
  • Inpatient Discharge: Examining Your Exit Strategy to Improve Your Bottom Line; AMS Conference, Burlington, MA & Washington, DC.
  • Conducting a Hospital-Wide Medical Record Security Assessment; American Health Information Management Association Conference, San Diego, CA.