Consulting Experience
Carole Robin is a senior organization consultant and executive coach who has been helping people and organizations thrive for over 25 years. Her passionate belief is that people flourish when they experience purpose, potential, and meaning in their work and in their life. Her work is anchored in solid experience, research and strong academic affiliations.

Carole's experience as a former industrial control sales and marketing executive provides her clients with pragmatic, solution-oriented approaches grounded in having been there. Prior to becoming an organization development consultant, Carole was a National Account Manager for Honeywell's Industrial Controls Division as well as the 13-state Western Regional Manager for a division of Gould, Inc.

Dr. Robin has been an organization development consultant for the last 13 years, working with a wide range of business, government, and nonprofit clients and specializing in leadership development, executive coaching, strategic visioning, team building, and facilitation. She has consulted to organizations and their leaders as they have grown, moved through various stages of development, and/or changed as a result of external forces. She is an experienced facilitator in whole system change and numerous organizational improvement and decision-making processes.

As a lecturer in the Organization Behavior Department at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Dr. Robin teaches the acclaimed “Interpersonal Dynamics” (a course in interpersonal communications and group process). She has also been a Guest Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Business and is a member of NTL. Maintaining these strong academic affiliations enrich her consulting work and benefit her clients.

Carole has conducted research in work motivation and satisfaction as well as meaningful work. She is the creator of the Meaning Mapping™ Process, which includes a concrete model that helps people clarify the circumstances under which they experience their work as especially meaningful and provides a platform from which action can be taken. Carole is also the co-developer of a professional men's program exploring meaning, renewal and wisdom.

Background and Education
Carole has a Ph.D. in Human and Organization Systems and a Masters Degree in Organization Development. She was raised in Mexico City, Mexico and speaks fluent Spanish. She is the recipient of two Congressional Awards for Community Service and resides in Palo Alto, California with her husband and two children.

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