Jill Robinson

Biography

 In 1995, Jill’s career started in Nashville with various nonprofits in marketing, outreach, and programs including Tennessee 200, the non-profit managing Tennessee’s 200th birthday, TACA, an organization supporting statewide artists, and LifeWay in the collegiate ministry office. Concurrently, she joined Charter Resource Group, a change management and CEO coaching consulting firm.

In 1999, she managed TPAC’s first volunteer department, eventually moving to Director of Development supporting fundraising and event goals for their education programs. 
Finding a passion for organizational and leadership development, she obtained an M.A. in Organizational Management in 2002, and completed her M.B.A. in 2004.

February 2005, she joined Belmont University’s Office of the President focusing on presidential initiatives, donor relations, and cross-functional team management.  Summer 2007, she moved to Jack C. Massey College of Business Center for Executive Education as the Director of Executive Learning and Marketing combining her love for learning, leadership training, and marketing.  She moved to the Massey Dean’s Office as Director of External Relations in 2014 expanding her role to include strategic initiatives, community outreach, and leadership development, working with the Massey School’s 5 Centers of Learning, marketing, and community and business alliances. In summer of 2022, the business school named Jill the Assistant Dean of External Relations and Strategic Partnerships moving the Massey Career Development and Massey Alumni offices underneath her purview.

Jill has a passion for community engagement at all levels, works on external strategic initiatives for the college advancing the Massey College and embedding the community at all levels.

In 2009, she received the inaugural NBJ 40 Under 40 award, in 2010 the Nashville Chamber Nashville Emerging Leader Education award, in 2016 the NBJ Women of Influence non-profit award, in 2021 was named Woman of the Year for School of the Arts at her alma matter Samford University, and in 2023 received the Diane Hayes Legacy of Leadership Award from Young Leaders Council. In 2017 she received her International Coaching Certification and launched her coaching business focusing on job transition, career visioning, leadership development and execution.  In 2022 pursued her undergraduate major and love of art launching two shows of abstract paintings.  Through her role at Belmont and her coaching company, she serves those that she connects with and enjoys encouraging them to be their best selves.  She believes deeply in the goodness in everyone she meets, and that kindness matters in creating lasting impact.  In her spare time, you can often find Jill serving through nonprofit boards of directors in Nashville, spoiling her nieces, painting, at Pilates class, or hiking in Percy Warner Parks.  The novice foodie can be found eating out with friends in Nashville at the latest restaurant opening, or in class learning about vino!