Robin Hills

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Robin Hills has over 40 years’ business and commercial experience helping executives and leaders develop business performance through increased self-awareness and understanding of others. 

Robin is Director of Ei4Change – Emotional Intelligence 4 Change – a company specialising in training, coaching and personal development focused around emotional intelligence, positive psychology and neuroscience. Ei4Change’s Advanced Emotional Intelligence Programme and Master Practitioner in Emotional Intelligence Programme are accredited by The Institute of Leadership and Management.

He is registered and accredited with the British Psychology Society as a Test User: Occupational Ability and Personality (Level A and B) and uses a range of internationally recognised profiling tools to assess type, trait, behaviour and emotional intelligence. He is a Member (Business) of the Association of Business Psychologists and sits on the North West Committee.

Robin is a coach on the Manchester Metropolitan University Degree Apprenticeship MBA programme.  He is currently coaching 15 apprentices working in the NHS, in the public sector and in the private sector.  

Through his work in emotional intelligence, Robin has researched emotional resilience within the work environment. He has focused on techniques that support coaching interventions. This has resulted in the development of an experiential coaching methodology (Images of Resilience) to support cathartic conversations around resilience. The research has been extended to cover teenagers in full time education.

He is the author of two books in The Authority Guide series.  

  • The Authority Guide to Emotional Resilience in Business
  • The Authority Guide to Behaviour in Business

Based upon this work, Robin has spoken and delivered keynote speeches and workshops at international emotional intelligence conferences. These have been held in South Africa, India, the Middle East, the United States (Harvard University) and across the United Kingdom.

His educational programmes on resilience and emotional intelligence are used in educational establishments in South Africa and India and he is teaching over 50,000 students in 165+ countries.

Specialist development areas include:

  • Mindfulness
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Self-Awareness and Self Perception
  • Communication Excellence
  • Understanding Self
  • Coaching& Mentoring

Other points of interest:

  • Robin is also a mentor with Bolton Lads and Girls Club – a registered youth charity