Robin Pou is an Executive Coach, Author, and Founder of a leadership development firm with a mission to make bad leadership extinct by building people into high achieving leaders who grow meaningful businesses and value their teams in the process.
As an executive coach and frequent keynote speaker on leadership trends, he works with Fortune 500 executives and CEOs of high-growth organizations. His clients have included GM Financial, Southwest Airlines, The Match Group, BNSF Railroad, the Dallas Morning News, and State Farm.
In his book, Performance Intelligence at Work, which he wrote with renowned sports psychologist Julie Bell, Robin brings the principles of sports psychology to the business arena. Industry leaders leverage these principles to defeat leadership doubt, gain greater confidence, and achieve peak performance.
Robin’s leadership development programs operate to inspire, teach, and train leaders to become confident leaders who win again and build businesses that matter. Robin was first to unearth the concept of leadership doubt and the Four Doubt Types™. Using his proprietary assessment tool developed through thousands of hours of research and coaching sessions, Robin and his team help leaders understand and overcome their doubts to reach their potential. Robin also shares his latest leadership insights in a popular weekly newsletter called The Confident Leader.
Robin started his career as an attorney before shifting to the business world where he became a successful entrepreneur who founded three companies and oversaw their growth by serving as Chief Operating Officer.
Robin lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife Karen and their three kiddos: Robert, Cate, and Boyd (and their pandemic puppy, Charlie). Also, Robin serves as a chief advisor and strategist to the top leaders of numerous non-profit organizations, each of whom are pioneer leaders in their verticals.
Executive coach Robin Pou points to another negative consequence: the breakdown of trust between employees and managers.
“The leader always finds out, driving them to wonder why the employee was trying to hide something in the first place,” he says. “This erosion of trust can be a cancer to team dynamics.”
From reporter after a recent article: “Robin's comments were outstanding. Really. Insightful and powerful. His expertise shined through.”
Robin Pou, an executive coach and founder of a leadership development firm based in Dallas, said he recently reached out to 30 leaders he works with to invite them to watch the World Cup, and every single one said no — they were too busy. “I get it, it was last minute, they may not like soccer, but it just rose up in me this sort of existential question of leadership,” Pou said. “Why are we working so hard?” he said, describing clients who complain of exhaustion and burnout as they maneuver out of a pandemic crisis and into a recession.
It’s short-sighted to worry about productivity lost when taking time to build relationships and have a little fun at the office, Pou tells CEOs. He urges them to think of the two hours it takes to watch a match as an investment in relationships. “It’s a real solution to a current-day challenge that I’m hearing from all leaders across all industries and all sizes of organizations,” he said. “It’s useful — not just cute.’’
His firm is launching National Confident Leader Week with the goal of making leaders more effective by helping them understand doubt
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