Empowerment. Effectiveness. Empathy.

Welcome to my website.  Most likely we’ve met in a workshop, you’ve heard me speak (live or on CD), or you’ve read one of my books.  I’m glad you’ve come to this site and expect you will find information, community, and contacts to help you and your organization effectively manage the challenges you face.

We are all committed -- Dr. Robin Johnson, the EQUEST, Inc. team and the members of the Multicultural Coaching Network – to empowering you. We are active in research and educational endeavors that enhance the effectiveness of talented multicultural executives.  We also help organizations enhance their retention of diverse talent using inclusive human resource practices.  Dr. Robin Johnson is particularly skilled at creating and structuring learning experiences - chunking them into digestible, doable, practical modules where the experience of teaching-learning is informative and inspiring.  Life school like you always wanted it.  Fun! Easy! Done!

Competent, Committed Clients Overcoming Diversity Challenges

We know that you are smart, committed, talented, hardworking, and good at what you do.  Moving to the next level requires not just competence but also clarity, integrity, relationships, values transparency, negotiation skills, and strategic handling of social-identity based conflicts. 

We also know that our client organizations seeking to leverage diversity are challenged by old norms, behaviors and beliefs that distract people from doing high quality work in environments where everyone is respected, recognized and rewarded fairly for their contribution.  We help our clients identify those barrier behaviors and beliefs so that everyone can focus on the goal. 

Insight from research, empathy from experience

Dr. Robin Johnson is an executive educator, career-life coach, author and mentor to women, LBGT, and leaders of multicultural teams in business, non-profit, and educational organizations.

She specializes in helping you to:

Identify your interests, skills, values, personal mission, and legacy using her Career by Design system

Define and express your unique leadership style using her multicultural, research-based Dance of Leadership model

Identify your strengths, while responsibly negotiating to get your core needs met through the use of the Birkman Method.

Lead your multicultural teams more effectively using research- and practice-based team design parameters with processes that leverage perspective diversity

Dr. Robin Johnson executive educational insights are available through:
Executive Education Leadership Institutes at the Anderson School at UCLA
Published materials
One-to-one coaching
Webinars and Teleclasses
Keynote Speeches
Customized workshops for companies, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations

Dr. Robin Johnson's publications can be purchased through Amazon.com, from EQUEST, Inc., or in quantity directly from the publisher, NOVUS. Her publications include:

Dr. Robin Johnson offers insight from research and empathy from experience for clients committed to leading to a purposeful work life.

Maximizing effectiveness and empowerment in a multicultural workplace includes:

COACHING
Coaching is an investment in your professional effectiveness and personal empowerment.  Just improving your negotiation skills alone using some of our identity-based tips from research can mean a better performance review, quicker promotions, greater career satisfaction and up to $1 million in lifetime earnings.

CONTINUOUS LEARNING
We organize and facilitate

• Webinars and Teleclasses
• Executive Education Programs
• Books, CD’s, Articles, and other resources for professional development

COMMUNITY
We help you stay in touch with executives who share your concerns through our research, executive education activities, and webinars.

 

Robin Denise Johnson, Ph.D.
Dr. Robin Johnson, founder of EQUEST, Inc. is a Harvard Business School trained Ph.D.  She wrote an award-winning dissertation on diversity, work-life balance and empowerment.  She has been an executive educator, coach, and author in leadership development for over 20 years.  She works with individuals, corporate managers and team leaders, non-profit directors-managers, and entrepreneurs.

The Multicultural Coaching Network
All of the coaches in the Multicultural Coaching network listed below are active as coaches, mentors, researchers and practitioners committed to enhancing the empowerment and effectiveness of multicultural leaders.  They all consult with organizations on their Diversity, Inclusion and Retention strategies.  These professionals know when and how to use the social identity lens of race, ethnicity, gender, language, or sexual orientation to diagnose identity-related challenges at work, and develop strategies that enhance effectiveness taking those factors, as well as general factors into account.  The Multicultural Coaching Network includes:

Robin Denise Johnson, Ph.D.
Specialties include Dance of Leadership style, team dynamics, leadership-diversity, gender–cross-cultural communication issues, career management, self-assessment, decoding feedback, time mastery, work-life balance, gender-power dynamics, multi-cultural effectiveness.

Donna Maria Blancero, Ph.D.
Specialties include Latinos in Corporate America, focusing on their experiences with regard to mentoring, networking, discrimination, fair treatment and psychological contracts, fairness and psychological contracts, alternative dispute resolution, and customer service, mentoring, networking, and emotional intelligence.

Stacy Blake-Beard, Ph.D.
Specialties include cross-race / cross-gender mentoring, formal mentoring programs, developmental networks.

Glenn Brome
Specialties include diversity, facilitative leadership, decoding feedback, time mastery, self-assessment, quality customer service, DiSC Personality Assessment, and diverse teams.

Bernardo M. Ferdman, Ph.D.
Specialties include inclusive behavior, bringing the whole self to work, cross-cultural communication, Latino identity, and leadership development.

Cheryl Harris
Specialties include diversity, change management, understanding cultural cues, collaborative leadership, cross-race/cross gender relationships, gender dynamics in organizations. performance management, creating and sustaining strategic alliances.

Jane Hyun
Specialties include Asian American empowerment, Breaking the bamboo ceiling, pipeline management, relational selling, diversity-inclusion strategic change management.

Audrey Murrell, Ph.D.
Specialties include developmental networks, mentoring, harassment-discrimination management, serving in the public and private arenas.

Cassandra Mitchell
Specialties include leadership development, leading strategic change efforts, decoding feedback. 360 feedback design / implementation, emotional intelligence.

To learn more about our clients, how we work, or our services, click the highlighted button. 

And don’t forget to download the free Dance of Leadership mini quiz to gain some insight into your leadership style and ways you prefer to influence others. 

(Photo of Dr.Johnson above by LeRoy Hamilton, Photographer)