I'm Robin Crowder, an entrepreneurial leader who is energized by ambitious ideas, complex challenges and opportunities to create meaningful results.

For more than 20 years, I've worked across nonprofits, businesses and community-based organizations, often in roles that required me to move easily between strategy and execution. I've led organizations and teams, launched new programs and enterprises, developed hundreds of partnerships, managed multimillion-dollar budgets and operations and helped organizations grow and adapt.

For nearly 15 years, I served as Co-Executive Director of 21 Acres Center for Local Food and HumanLinks Foundation. During that time, I helped develop and expand programs and enterprises focused on sustainability, regenerative food systems and regional economic development, including Puget Sound Food Hub and Farmstand Local Foods.

I've also led entrepreneurial and collaborative initiatives at the University of North Carolina, worked in commercial real estate and healthcare development, supported associations and community organizations and founded Washington Women in Food Systems, now a statewide professional network of more than 500 members.

The settings have varied, but the work I enjoy most has remained remarkably consistent: bringing people together, seeing possibilities others may have missed, creating a plan and doing the work required to make something happen.

I care deeply about community and about creating organizations, programs and experiences where people feel welcomed, valued and connected. I also care about results. The best work does both.

Today, through Crowder & Co., I bring that experience to organizations with important ideas, challenges and opportunities that need experienced leadership to move them forward.