Robert Spiotta
Consulting Associate
Robert serves as Consulting Associate for Heaton Smith Group and concentrates his efforts on arts organizations, higher education, and health care. Robert brings more than twenty-five years of experience as an effective communicator and innovator in education and the arts. His wide consulting background includes general fundraising for different types of non-profit institutions, as well as thousands of hours in one-on-one meetings with high net-worth clients and collectors in the field of art and design. Recently he consulted with Atlanta Youth Academy, an inner-city prep school, where he managed and increased giving to the $ 1.5 million annual fund through board development, community-relations, creative events, and marketing tax credit opportunities for education.
A gifted writer, speaker, and small-group communicator, Robert works engagingly with individuals, couples, and families of varying income levels and backgrounds to guide them through the careful process of articulating their legacy and estate planning objectives. This discovery process helps donors clarify their vision, values and goals with regard to their family, financial and philanthropic legacies, and then formally express those wishes in accessible language.
Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Robert grew up in a prominent medical family, but decided to pursue a liberal arts direction instead. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (BA, Communication) and the Parsons-New School program (MA, Art History) at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Museum of Design in New York. He also completed extensive post-graduate study with Sotheby’s Institute of Art (London), the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Emory University.
Robert and his wife, Yvonne, have been married for twenty years and have two daughters. Their family is active in Atlanta with several community organizations including The Westminster Schools and the Cathedral of St. Philip. Robert has also performed widely as a professional pianist and musician.
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