Robin Athey

Executive Coach, Facilitator, Senior Leader, Management Consultant, and Thought Leader

Robin Athey joins Seven Stones Leadership Group with 35+ years of global experience as an executive coach, facilitator, senior leader, management consultant, and thought leader.

Robin guides leaders and teams to bring their purpose and dreams to life. She helps them to cultivate their inner compass – to align with natural power – and to make wise decisions amidst
complexity and uncertainty. She is deeply committed to positive, sustainable change in a fast-changing, complex, and uncertain world.

Clients include ABB, Microsoft, HP, Google, MIT, Delta Airlines, IBM, Fujitsu, Eli Lilly, Banco Santander, Victoria’s Secret, Girl Scouts USA, non-profits, and many startups. Her coaching clients come from diverse backgrounds. She’s worked in 27 countries with factory workers to CEOs. She currently coaches senior and high-potential leaders in corporations, startups, non-profits, and on the front lines of social and climate change. She volunteers with the Realness Project, which brings Authentic Relating into prisons.

Robin’s approach is gentle, powerful, clear, intuitive – and for those who wish, transformational. Through deep listening, mirroring, and inquiry, clients learn to trust their innate wisdom. Their vision, purpose, and values become clearer. They make better choices, hone their unique gifts, and become more resilient. They grow their emotional agility under pressure, strengthen their relationships, and align their teams for greater impact. In sum, they more easily handle whatever comes their way.

For nine years, Robin was Deloitte’s thought leader on the human aspects of organizational performance. She also served as an executive coach and advisor within the firm. Prior to Deloitte, Robin led global production as VP of Cole-Haan, a subsidiary of Nike. She began her career as a strategy and operations consultant with Kurt Salmon.

Robin has been a Fellow at Harvard University, taught the core leadership class at Simmons MBA, and sat on the board of the U.N. Association.

She holds a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from University of Florida; an M.A. in International Economic Policy from Columbia University; and Advanced Certificate in OD and HR from Columbia University and University of Michigan.

Robin has practiced meditation and yoga for over 25 years. She integrates many modalities of ego (vertical) development, somatics, post-trauma growth, and transformation – including Leadership Circle Profile 360, Growth Edge Coaching, Enneagram, Art of Alignment (teams), Immunity to Change, Leadership Embodiment, Right Use of Power, Organic IntelligenceTM, Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, NARM, Purpose GuidingTM, and Gene Keys.

She lives in Boulder, Colorado, cherishes time with friends & family, and loves dancing and hiking in the wilderness.

4 Virtual Learning Sessions plus 6-month Racial Affinity Group Experience

For this learning path, you will participate in the 4 virtual learning sessions and be enrolled in one of three Racial Affinity Groups:

1) People who identify as People of Color (Black, Indigenous, Asian, Hispanic)

2) People who identify as Bi-Racial or Multi-Racial

3) People who identify as White

*More specific affinity groups may be formed upon the completion of course registration

We believe that it is important to do our own work with people with similar racial experiences to build capacity for cross-race dialogue that supports authentic relationships and deep belonging for everyone. We will ask you to self-select into the group that best aligns with your racial identity. We recognize that for some this is not a simple choice and we are available to have a conversation with you to support your selection.

Together we will:

  • Reflect personally and collectively on the impact of embodied trauma, separation, scarcity and disconnection.
  • Work in learning partners and/or small groups for the sake of holding each other accountable and deepening our learning through multiple disciplines.
  • Engage in embodied practices for unwinding from the impact of racism in order to build stamina, capacity, and resilience.


Where:
Online Zoom Sessions

Time: 11am-12:30pm ET/8am PT/4pm GMT*

When: 5-Sessions scheduled between Sept 28, 2023 – Jan 26, 2024 (see below)

*All sessions will run from 11am-12:30pm ET.

Racial Affinity Group Schedule
Thurs, September 28, 2023 — 11am-12:30pm ET Kick-off/ Authentic Communication
Thurs, November 2, 2023 — 11am-12:30pm ET Unpacking Our Racial Autobiographies
Friday, November 17, 2023 — 11am-12:30pm ET Self-Compassion
Thurs, December 7, 2023 — 11am-12:30pm ET What is Sustainable Abundance?
Thurs, January 25, 2024 — 11am-12:30pm ET Inclusive Leadership

Course Registration

Upon registration, you will be directed to our online community space, where all aspects of your program will live, including: pre-work, event links, and a space to connect with fellow participants.

4 Virtual Learning Sessions Only

These four learning sessions will provide you with a new view and innovative framing of the problem as we see it. Below is a brief description of what will take place in each session:

  • Learning Session 1: Why Context Matters
    In session one, we look at our individualist narratives and the impact of not understanding the context in which we exist. 
  • Learning Session 2: Unpacking Trauma
    In session two, we discuss individual and collective trauma. We define trauma and look together about our current systems of inequality and how they evoke trauma-like responses in so many of us.
  • Learning Session 3: Global Anti-Black Racism: A History Lesson
    In session three, we get a history lesson like none other: we explore the global slave trade as the foundation for our current economic model.
  • Learning Session 4: Understanding Power
    In our last session, we examine power; power structures, our relationships with personal power; the importance of learning a healthy relationship with power when so many of us have had power abuse in our lives.


Where:
Online Zoom Learning Sessions

Time: 11am-1pm ET/8am PT/4pm GMT*

When: 4-sessions scheduled between Sept 21, 2023 – Jan 18, 2024 (see details below)

*All sessions will run from 11am-1pm ET.

Learning Session Schedule
Thurs, September 21, 2023 — 11 - 1pm ETWhy Context Matters
Thurs, October 26, 2023 — 11 - 1pm ET Unpacking Trauma
Thurs, November 16, 2023 — 11 - 1pm ET Global Anti-Black Racism: A History Lesson
Thurs, January 18, 2024 — 11 - 1pm ET Understanding Power

Course Registration

Upon registration, you will be directed to our online community space, where all aspects of your modular program will live, including: pre-work, event links, and a space to connect with fellow participants.