ROBERT ELLIOTT, MFA

Robert Elliott inspires professionals to tap into their full potential as quality leaders, communicators, and relationship builders. His work encourages people to speak and act in authentic ways that serve their professional development - contributing to the betterment and well-being of their workplace. His enthusiasm and passion directly translate to his success as a speaker and workshop facilitator.

Drawing on culturally diverse traditions, ancient practices, depth psychology, and the creative and martial arts, Robert Elliott’s innovative Creating Quality programs provide a holistic perspective for manifesting positive change. His programs offer a safe space to revise and expand your own personal story; one that includes seeing yourself capable of much more than you ever dreamed possible. Along with making adjustments to previous ways of thinking and acting, you learn more about what gifts you have to offer the world and how you might use those gifts to become truly fulfilled.

Through the use of stories, lecture, meditation, group discussion, and customized experiential exercises, Robert’s masterful approach to teaching brings out the inherent wisdom in participants. This results in greater understanding, recall, and integration of the information, as validated by feedback from participants.

For nearly 30 years, Robert has worked with individuals and groups throughout North America, Asia, Micronesia and Europe as a corporate educator and leadership coach. He has conducted his Creating Quality leadership, communication, and relationship building programs with executives, middle management, and support personnel with Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller companies in the fields of healthcare, insurance, entertainment, and manufacturing. In addition, he has worked with federal and state agencies, the military, law enforcement, and county and city governments. He has also served on the business faculties of UCLA, UC Irvine, San Diego State University and Loyola Marymount University Extension Programs.

Robert has a broad range of expertise in the arts. He earned a Masters of Fine Arts in writing from Sarah Lawrence College and was an actor in his early professional life. He has a black belt in Aikido, a Japanese martial art dedicated to living in harmony with all things. He plays numerous musical instruments, is a songwriter and composer, and has studied ballet and movement. He has also practiced Zen meditation, and has studied Jungian psychology, mythology, the Kundalini process, the Diamond Approach, and West African and Balinese spirituality.

Robert earned a Bachelor's Degree in political science from UC Berkeley, where he graduated with honors.