Bernard Robinson CMC Recognized for the Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise Award

The Institute for Human Development, Inc.
Recognized Among Top 100 Regional Minority Businesses

Will Receive an Award at the October 21^st Ceremony

Fort Washington, MD, September 24, 2010 – INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, INC. is proud to announce that Bernard E. Robinson CMC, President of the Institute for Human Development, Inc. has been selected, out of a nearly 5,000 nominations to receive the prestigious, Top 100 Minority Business® Enterprise Award for 2010. In its fifth year, this program is designed to acknowledge and pay tribute to outstanding women and minority business owners in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. The awards ceremony will take place at the Inn and Conference Center at University of Maryland University College in Adelphi, Maryland on Thursday, October 21, 2010

A panel of distinguished judges chose the Institute for Human Development, Inc. from five thousand nominations. Selection was based on entrepreneurs who demonstrated outstanding achievement in four key areas: entrepreneurship, client satisfaction, and professional and community contributions. This year's ceremony sponsor organizations are: The Center for Business Inclusion and Diversity (CBID); the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Southwest Airlines; HMSHost, PNC Bank, the State of Maryland, andgreiBO media.

"The Institute for Human Development is privileged and proud to be recognized as one of the region's Top 100 minority businesses" said Bernard Robinson, president and CEO of the Institute. "With more than 22 years of service in the mid-Atlantic region and other areas throughout the United States and Canada, the Institute for Human Development remains committed to providing top-notch performance management consulting services through the use of a wide array of process and socio-technical consultation services.”

The Institute for Human Development, Inc., a Fort Washington Maryland-based consulting firm, focuses on helping organizations design curriculum, plan strategies, train employees, implement programs and systems and develop leaders. Our mission is to improve the performance of workers and workplace societies by providing high impact human systems development products, processes and solutions. The Institute delivers services in ways that improve the use of the human element and maximize the achievement of business and organizational goals and specializes in Leadership and Business Coaching, Strategic Planning, Group Meeting & Team Facilitation, Training of Trainers, Curriculum Design & Development, Organizational Development, Change Management and Focus Group Research.

"The INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, INC. represents the best of what our region's minority business community has to offer," said Sharon R. Pinder, CEO of the Center for Business Inclusion and Diversity and founder of the Top 100 MBE® Awards Ceremony. "This award is the culmination of sacrifice, dedication and hard work and will inspire future minority business entrepreneurs to strive for the same level of success."

Please visit www.ihdinc.org for more information about the Institute for Human Development, Inc.