Although he has decades of consulting experience and a deep knowledge of food and agriculture and business topics, Kearney partner Rob Dongoski continues to strive to learn as much as possible day after day. While he reads a lot, he’s also constantly listening to others. He tries to follow the saying, “There’s a reason we have two ears and only one mouth—use them proportionately.”

Rob’s love of learning has enabled him to chart a steady course through his career from accounting to technology consulting to management consulting, and earn his master’s in agricultural economics while working full-time. It also helped him make a crucial move around 2014 while working with food manufacturers to broaden focus on agribusiness, helping his clients develop growth strategies, complete transactions, design digital strategies, and undertake significant enterprise transformations.

Rob joined Kearney in 2023 to increase the firm’s capabilities in food and agribusiness, where Kearney aims to help companies in the world’s oldest industry and their value chain partners prepare for the challenges of the future through sustainable and regenerative agriculture, increased use of digital and biotechnologies, and other innovative practices and techniques.

“Kearney is agile, entrepreneurial, and highly collaborative,” Rob says. “The word ‘partner’ can act as both a noun and a verb, and Kearney excels in both usages of the term. When I took a break from consulting to work at an investment firm, I had many consultants pitch their services to me. This gave me a strong sense for what works and what doesn’t when trying to sell services—being on the client side of the table for a time proved to be tremendously valuable as a consultant.”

Rob and his wife Julie live near Nashville, Tennessee and have a small farm nearby. They have three grown children and three grandchildren and when the family get together, they love riding on all-terrain vehicles and playing board games and interactive television games. The Dongoskis also enjoy traveling and collecting wine, and Rob likes to hunt, work out, and cycle.

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