Robert G. Boutilier, Ph.D., is a researcher, author, and consultant. He is president of Robert Boutilier & Associates, a social research consultancy based in Vancouver (www.stakeholder360.com). He is an associate of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University and Executive Director of the Atzingo Institute for Stakeholder Network Studies.
Dr Boutilier’s work involves the application of concepts like social capital, social network analysis and sustainability to stakeholder relations and community development. He has studied stakeholder issues on four continents, in six languages, in over 40 communities.
Dr. Boutilier has conducted workshops on stakeholder relations for managers in Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United States. He is a regular conference speaker and has published papers on firm-stakeholder relations in professional magazines, AccountAbility Quarterly, the Journal of Corporate Citizenship, and several edited books. He currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he wrote his latest book, Stakeholder Politics (Stanford University Press, USA and Greenleaf Publishing, UK, 2009).
He works together with ACCSR to use the Stakeholder 360® to help clients benchmark and develop quality stakeholder relationships and engagement strategies.