Carole Robin

Carole Robin is an American educator, leadership expert, and author. She is known for her work in interpersonal dynamics and leadership development. She served as the Dorothy J. King Lecturer in Leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she co-developed and taught the course Interpersonal Dynamics, commonly referred to as "Touchy Feely."

Career

Robin was a faculty member at Stanford Graduate School of Business for nearly two decades. She served as the faculty director of the Interpersonal Dynamics for High-Performance Executives program and directed the Arbuckle Leadership Fellows Program. Her teaching contributions earned her the MBA Distinguished Teaching Award. Upon her retirement in 2017, a scholarship was established in her name at Stanford GSB.
After leaving Stanford, Robin co-founded Leaders in Tech, a nonprofit organization that applies leadership training from the GSB to startup founders and executives in Silicon Valley.

Publications

Robin co-authored Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues, a book based on the principles taught in Interpersonal Dynamics at Stanford. The book explores concepts of communication, emotional intelligence, and relationship-building.

Early life

Robin was raised in Mexico City, Mexico, where she lived for seventeen years before pursuing higher education and careers in sales and marketing management and consulting prior to her career in leadership development.