Palma Robinson

Palma is an executive coach and organizational development consultant with more than twenty years of experience. Her strength lies in her ability to propose and facilitate personal change initiatives that empower individuals to make meaningful choices and take positive action in their lives as leaders.

She coaches C-suite executives from multinational corporations. Ms. Robinson designs global talent Leadership initiatives to support strategic growth objectives; innovative, growth-related executive coaching programs and facilitates personal change initiatives. She has served in the high technology, pharamceutical, automotive, transportation, financial services, manufacturing, and banking industries. Her coaching specialities include strategic thinking, executive presence, strategic communication, change readiness, high performance teams, leadership team alignment, diversity and inclusion, global and cross-cultural issues, mergers and acquisitions, success and career development.

Palma is President of Developing Leaders; a firm specializing in helping successful leaders develop themselves, their people and their teams to achieve positive, long-term changes in behaviour leading to increased performance. She consults with CEOs and executives on issues of talent leadership, succession management, assessment and development of current and future leaders to complement their business strategy. She has taught at McGill and Concordia universities in their E.M.B.A. and executive leadership development programs. She is a columnist for Canadian Business magazine on work-related issues.

Keynote addresses to the Conference Board of Canada include “Coaching for Influence and Expanding Your Global Impact” and “Building Leadership: Transformation Capabilities.”

Palma is an Associate of The Niagara Institute: A division of The Conference Board of Canada.