Robin Gerber is a powerful speaker, best-selling author, and historian. She has appeared on CNN, the History Channel and Biography Channel, as well as The PBS Newshour, CBS and FOX.
Her articles have appeared in USAToday, the Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and numerous other newspapers and magazines. Robin has been a Senior Faculty member at the Institute for Management Studies, where she taught her popular course on Authentic Leadership. She is a former Senior Fellow at the Gallup Organization and at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland
Robin is the author of the bestseller, Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage (Penguin/Portfolio).
Her book about the founder of Mattel, Ruth Handler, shown in the Barbie movie, is being made into a television production! Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her (Harper/Collins).
Robin’s book Katharine Graham: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon with a foreword by Jim Collins, author of Good to Great (Penguin/Portfolio), explores the life of the legendary publisher of The Washington Post newspaper, and has been made into a play about domestic abuse: www.theshotonstage.com.
Robin’s alternative history novel, Eleanor VS. Ike (Harper/Avon), imagines Eleanor Roosevelt as a candidate for President in 1952.
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