Major General Robert Wilbur Mixon Jr. (born October 5, 1952) is a retired officer of the United States Army, public speaker, author, and the co-founder of Level Five Associates.Level Five Associates
Biography Born in Georgia, Mixon graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a B.S. degree in 1974.West Point He earned an M.A. degree in history from Rice University in 1982 with a thesis entitled Pioneer Professional: General John M. Schofield and the development of a professional officer corps, 1888-1895. Mixon also received a Master of Military Art and Science degree from the School of Advanced Military Studies at the United States Army Command and General Staff College in 1987. Mixon was commissioned in 1974 upon graduating from West Point. After completing his first master's degree, he returned there to teach history from 1982 to 1985.
Mixon was nominated for appointment to the rank of Brigadier General in 1998Defense Link and then for the rank of Major General in 2002.defense.gov US Department of Defense In 2003, General Peter Schoomaker chose Mixon to lead Task Force Modularity with the aim of changing the US Army's structure.Transforming Military Power since the Cold War: Britain, France, and the United States, 1991–2012, pg 70 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.Transforming Military Power since the Cold War: Britain, France, and the United States, 1991–2012, pg 76
Robert W. Mixon Jr. retired from active duty on October 1, 2007, after more than 33 years of commissioned service and took over as president of Magnatag Visible Systems in the same month."Taking the 'Common' out of 'Commodity'", Wall Street Journal Mixon would later serve as the Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning and Leadership Development at CDS Monarch. While with CDS Monarch, Mixon helped to found the Warrior Salute Program for veterans with PTSD and traumatic brain injury.
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. Mixon and Batiste co-wrote the best-selling book, Cows in the Living Room: Developing an Effective Strategic Plan and Sustaining It, in 2014.Cows in the Living Room: Developing an Effective Strategic Plan and Sustaining It
References
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