Stever Robins
A businessperson and entrepreneur since the late 1970s, Stever co-founded the early internet success story FTP Software, and has been a part of nine high-tech start-ups, three IPOs, and three acquisitions. He was COO for Building Blocks Interactive, and project manager at Intuit, where he co-led the development of the award-winning Quicken VISA Card.
Stever began developing business leaders as part of Harvard Business School’s “Leadership and Learning” curriculum redesign project and has been an advisor and mentor to senior managers in several high-growth companies. He currently serves as CEO of The Stever Robbins Company, where he coaches executives and high-potential leaders. Stever is also a member of the career coaching staff at Harvard Business School.
The creator of the Pull Leadership concept, Stever has written extensively about leadership in his book It Takes a Lot More than Attitude...to Lead a Stellar Organization and in his monthly Harvard Business School Working Knowledge column.
An angel investor or advisor to several young companies, Stever has also been a judge for the Harvard Business School Business Plan competition and the Brown University Business Plan competition. He has also served as a mentor for the MIT $50K Competition.
Stever holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Computer Sciences from MIT. He is a graduate of W. Edward Deming's Total Quality Management training program, a Certified Master Trainer Elite of NLP, and a Certified Executive Coach.
Stever has been quoted in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News, The New York Times, ABC News Now, MSNBC, BusinessWeek Online, and Investor's Business Daily. He has written for The Boston Business Journal and Entrepreneur.com, and has a monthly leadership column on Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge.