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Deborah Kolb, PhD is a renowned expert in the field of negotiation and gender studies in business. Her daughter, Elizabeth Kolb Robillard is an MBA with experience in Business, Technology and Entrepreneurship. Together they bring you the latest research on negotiation tactics that work and practical tips to get what you want at work and create a win-win for you and your organization.
We are a mother daughter team who have years of experience in negotiation & business.
Elizabeth has spent her career in technology startups in Boston and Portland, Oregon. She is currently in Business Development at AWS. She is a frequent speaker at conferences on negotiation, technology, entrepreneurship, and women in business. She is a mentor to entrepreneurs and tech startups through several technology accelerators and incubators.
Recent speaking & consulting projects include:
Women at work video training series https://www.linkedin.com/learning/women-at-work
Negotiate Your Leadership Success https://www.linkedin.com/learning/negotiating-your-leadership-success/
Portland Tech Exec Wants to Help you Negotiate Your Career, PBJ 0ct 18, 2019
Negotiation Techniques - Portland Women Leaders in Tech Luncheon Series
Negotiating at Work: Turn Small Wins Into Big Gains, Massachusetts conference on women, Boston, Dec 8, 2016
Negotiation Tips for Women in Technology, Act-W, Portland, April 22, 2016
Guest Lecturer at Portland State University
Consultant for the Techtown Portland Diversity Project
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekrobi
Deborah is a foremost authority in the fields of negotiation, leadership, and gender. She is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women in Leadership (Emerita) and co-founder of the Ford Foundation funded Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons College School of Management. Deborah was Former Executive Director and is currently Co-Director of the Negotiations in the Workplace Project at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. And Deborah is strategic advisor and mentor to many of today’s most successful executive women. She also served as Faculty Research Fellow at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research in 2008-2009, and is Adjunct Faculty at INSEAD. Deborah holds a BA from Vassar College, MBA from the University of Colorado, and PhD from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Engagement include: Deloitte, Google, Thomson Reuters, Time Warner, Fidelity, Harvard University, The Ford Foundation, Citibank, Campbell Soup, Society for Human Resource Management, Unilever, Proctor and Gamble, Columbia University and many more.
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Technology Association of Oregon Leadership Development Award, January 2020
Portland Tech Exec wants to help Women Negotiate their Careers, Portland Business Journal, October 28, 2019
Beyond Connections: Women in Tech orgs look to foster leadership, Portland Business Journal, February 13, 2017
Women Must Negotiate at Work: 4 Simple Ways to Get What You Deserve, Huffington Post, March 25, 2016
Job Interviewers Can’t Ask This Question In Massachusetts Anymore, Huffington Post, August 3, 2016
Setting the record straight, using an outside offer to get a job offer, Harvard Business Review, July 15, 2016
June 12, 2017 - Portland - TAO
June 16, 2017 - Boston - Gearing Up Conference, Bentley College
June 17, 2017 - Portland - Act-W, Portland
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