Robert W. Mixon Jr.
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Major General Robert W. Mixon Jr. is a retired officer of the United States Army,[1] public speaker,[2] author, and the co-founder of Level Five Associates.[3]
Military career[]
Robert W. Mixon Jr. graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1974.[4] Mixon was nominated for appointment to the rank of Brigadier General in 1998 [5] and then for the rank of Major General in 2002.[6]
In 2003, General Peter Schoomaker chose Mixon to lead Task Force Modularity with the aim of changing the US Army's structure.[7] The task force would attempt to break the US Army up into smaller, more effective "units of action." This modularization represented a shift from a hierarchical structure to a functional structure.[8]
Post-military career[]
Robert W. Mixon Jr. retired from active duty on October 1, 2007, after more than 33 years of commissioned service[1] and took over as president of Magnatag Visible Systems in the same month.[9] Mixon would later serve as the Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning and Leadership Development at CDS Monarch.[10] While with CDS Monarch, Mixon helped to found the Warrior Salute Program for veterans with PTSD and traumatic brain injury.[3][11]
Mixon would go on to co-found Level Five Associates, a leadership consulting company specializing in change management, in 2009 with his long-time friend and former classmate Major General (ret.) John Batiste.[3] Mixon and Batiste co-wrote the best-selling book, Cows in the Living Room: Developing an Effective Strategic Plan and Sustaining It, in 2014.[12]
References[]
- ^ a b [1]
- ^ Leading Authorities
- ^ a b c Level Five Associates
- ^ West Point
- ^ Defense Link
- ^ [2] US Department of Defense
- ^ Transforming Military Power since the Cold War: Britain, France, and the United States, 1991–2012, pg 70
- ^ Transforming Military Power since the Cold War: Britain, France, and the United States, 1991–2012, pg 76
- ^ "Taking the 'Common' out of 'Commodity'", Wall Street Journal
- ^ "Serve. Honor. Support. Symposium Brings Rochester Community Together to Support Veterans"
- ^ Warrior Salute conference
- ^ Cows in the Living Room: Developing an Effective Strategic Plan and Sustaining It
External links[]
- Level Five Associates
- Cows in the Living Room: Developing an Effective Strategic Plan and Sustaining It
- Warrior Salute
- "Army Video Games Shaped by Growing Need for Junior-Officer Training Tools", National Defense Magazine
- "2nd BCT Uncases Its Colors"
- Transforming an Army at War Designing the Modular Task Force, 1991-2005
- Living people
- United States Military Academy alumni
- United States Army officers