Meet Flourishing Orgs and Robin Ross
Our mission
We help clients cultivate positive leadership skills that unleash human potential and create flourishing employees, teams and organizations.
Core Values
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Authenticity
We respect that each of us brings a unique perspective and qualities to the world and that we perform at our best when we feel accepted, included and respected as we truly are.
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Curiosity
We believe in the power of curiosity and appreciative inquiry to increase understanding, bridge divides, fuel innovation and help ourselves and others grow.
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Connection
We believe nurturing and supportive connections are an essential human need and our success relies on recognizing our shared humanity and interdependence.
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Compassion
We define compassion as empathy + action and agree with the Dalai Lama: “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Our founder’s story to become executive and leadership Coach
Robin Ross
PCC, NBC-HWC
A wise friend once told me
“We live our lives in thirds – first we learn, next we earn and then we return.”
Their sage advice stuck with me, so after leaving my 30-year career in the financial industry, I decided to pursue a role that would enable me to give back in a meaningful way.
Executive and leadership coaching seemed the perfect intersection of my strengths, interests and strong desire to serve others and make a positive impact in the world!
Experience to empower people and teams
Robin brings over thirty years of experience as an executive in financial services to her work as an executive and leadership coach.
From 2005 through 2011, she served as Managing Director of CME Group, with P&L responsibility for the world’s largest and most diverse interest rate derivatives business, where she successfully led her team through the disruption and change caused by the automation of the markets and the financial crises.
Prior to joining CME Group, she recruited, developed and led sales teams for Cantor Fitzgerald & Company, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse First Boston.
From 2015-2019, Robin served as Executive Director of the Doctoroff Business Leadership Program at University of Chicago Law School, a selective certificate program designed to arm law students with the skills they need to thrive as corporate attorneys, in-house counsels, business leaders, and entrepreneurs.
Robin is credentialed by the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and by the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching as a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC).
She is certified in the use of DiSC®, EQi 2.0, and Hogan Development Assessments, and by the NeuroLeadership Institute in the Foundations of Neuroleadership, the emerging field of study that applies neuroscience to leadership development, change management and coaching.
Robin is also a certified teacher for Search Inside Yourself, the mindfulness-based emotional intelligence training developed at Google. In 2021, Robin was certified as a Positive Psychology-Based Health and Well-Being Coach by the College of Executive Coaching.