Offered by Robin P.

Joined August 2026

Lead with clarity, build a stronger team, and stop carrying everything your

I have lived the transition many of my clients are navigating: moving from technical expertise into responsibility for people, priorities, and results. As a software and operations leader, I managed multidisciplinary teams, competing stakeholder demands, shifting priorities, and limited resources. My teams achieved near-perfect on-time delivery while reducing annual software costs by approximately $100,000 and significantly improving critical business processes. I learned that succeeding as a manager requires a very different set of skills from succeeding as an individual contributor, and that carrying everything yourself eventually becomes part of the problem. For more than a decade, I have taught and coached managers, executives, engineers, and emerging leaders as they build those skills. I have served as a lead executive coach for corporate programs involving organizations such as Amazon, Merck, SC Johnson, Dentsply Sirona, and Arconic. At Cornell’s Selander Center for Engineering Leadership, I lead a coaching program serving approximately 900 participants annually and coordinate more than 60 professional coaches. Across more than 2,500 coaching hours, I have helped leaders clarify priorities, communicate more effectively, navigate conflict and change, build stronger teams, and grow into roles that no longer come with a clear technical answer.