Ep. 87 (8/7/25): Inside the Robinson Training Academy with a veteran police officer

Jeff Engelbrecht, training and development manager at Robinson, Inc., came to the company after along career as a police officer who led training and development programs for the Green Bay PoliceDepartment. On this week’s episode, Engelbrecht talks with co-hosts Kate Bruns and Ann Franz aboutdeveloping the Robinson Training Academy and how manufacturers can create a similar trainingprogram at their organizations.“Some supervisors and managers were a little ahead of the curve,” Engelbrecht says. “They’d beenlooking at this for a long time. They just needed someone to champion the cause.”Learn more about Robinson at https://www.robinsoninc.com/Read Kate Bruns' interview with Engelbrecht from the July 2025 issue of IOM at Anatomy of an academy | Plant News | insightonbusiness.com