Let Active Listening Open the Door to Collaboration

Storytelling has been a major theme in Robin’s career and it’s one of the many coaching tools she uses to help customers become more effective communicators and leaders. Understanding the concerns of your audience, your team, or your customers, using empathy and compassion to connect, and knowing what stories will enable your message to reach them, is one of the most powerful techniques of leadership.
Trainings for women leaders is also one of her passions and she has been fortunate to lead many – including trainings for young girls at the Eleanor Roosevelt Center and for women at companies all over the world.
Robin’s talents led her to spend 25 years as a professional writer for television and theater. She has been nominated for several Emmys for her work on shows such as The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives, and Guiding Light, is the winner of a Writers Guild Award and worked on a film for the United Nations Development Program. She was a research assistant for Dr. Edgar Schein, Chairman of the Organizational Psychology department at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Robin writes for the Huffington Post and Medium on topics as varied as resilience, finding your voice, leadership, and swing dancing. Robin appeared on In Her Power, a PBS special on women.
Robin lives in SoHo, New York.

Terry Bond is a serial entrepreneur and is a globally recognized expert on the topics of communications, sales, and executive coaching. He has guided executives of all levels on how to increase revenue, and communicate more effectively with their employees and customers. Bond’s trainings are fun, relaxed and known to create lasting improvements.

Last year, Bond traveled around the World ten times working with senior executives at Delta Airlines, Facebook, Google, Dell Computers, Amazon, Instagram, the United Nations, NASDAQ, Sanford Health Systems, Power China, Spotify, CNN, Siemens, The Weather Channel, SnapChat, ESPN, Pandora, Bosch, Bird Scooters, and dozens of other dominant worldwide brands. The net valuation of Bond’s client companies exceeds Switzerland’s GDP.

Terry also has an exceptional record of providing significant investor return at the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and President levels with more than two decades of experience overseeing sixty-eight media outlets across America. During his media career, Bond oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in assets.

Terry is a graduate of the University of Virginia.

For years, Dan has developed a reputation as a world-class communicator and interviewer, sitting down to speak with politicians and celebrities ranging from John Kerry and Mitt Romney to Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Lopez, and Danny Boyle.

Dan has spent 20 years working in television and radio, as a host, reporter, interviewer, producer and actor. As a broadcast host, he appeared on several network series, including NHL Cool Shots, Pioneers, American Outback and NASCAR Outdoors. He has also been hired to help professional athletes prepare for interviews with general managers, coaches and the media.

As an actor, he appeared on shows such as Full House, Beverly Hills 90210 and Who’s the Boss. More recently, Dan used his extensive sports and communications background in serving as the Director of Admissions and Marketing at the National Sports Academy. This range of experience allows him to effectively connect and coach teams and senior executives from across industries.

Dan’s work has taken him all over the world, from Israel to the Marshall Islands, and he has conducted interviews while ice-climbing in British Columbia, touring with bull riders across the American West, and chatting with a Paralympian sailor on top of the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Australia. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife.