David Robinson
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David Robinson, CTPC
David Robinson is a strong artistic leader and coach with extensive experience in theatre, visual art, creativity, and education innovation. After 20 years of professional directing experience, David now designs programs for academic and corporate environments utilizing theatre techniques to discover the creative impulse. As a life long visual and theatre artist, he has mastered the competencies that are now being recognized by contemporary organizations as invaluable to their health and sustainability: creative, artistic, imaginative, symphonic, and mythic.
David Robinson is the co-founder with Patti Digh of The Circle Project, a small consulting group coaching and working with individuals, organizations and communities to inspire inclusion, spark creativity, unleash authentic leadership, and open space for new stories by enhancing their capacity for innovation. Clients include Equity Residential, The Society For Human Resource Management (SHRM), The Boeing Company, The National Parks Conservation Association, The US Postal Service, ASAE, The Fetzer Institute, Drake University, Oregon Mentors Association, the University Of North Carolina - Asheville and the NW Diversity Leadership Alliance.
David was founder and director of The McCandless Communications Academy, dedicated to teaching core curriculum through experiential learning processes. As a consultant to school districts and curriculum developers, David has developed extensive knowledge and experience engaging the multiple intelligences, which he continues to use in a variety of contexts. David is on the faculty of Antioch University and a member of the National Storytelling Network. Recent clients include The Society for Humanism in Medicine, the Hudson Institute, The Fetzer Institute, Prudential Financial, and the San Lorenzo School District, in association with Dell and Microsoft.
David has been Artistic Director of The Dimensions Theatre Project, General Manager of The Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Artist-in-Residence for the Lincoln Unified School District. He has taught for The Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Seattle Children's Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, The Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, and Bringing Theatre Into the Classroom, and has served as curriculum consultant for MacMillan-McGraw Hill, The Teacher's Curriculum Institute, and Lincoln and Haywood Unified Schools.
In addition to his professional experience in theater, as an artist, and corporate coach and consultant, David’s coach training is from the Center for Transformational Presence.
At our retreat, David coached a team of leaders to open to their spontaneity — the ability to work generatively with whatever happens — what organization doesn't need that capacity? Through our work with David we tapped deep veins of creativity and reaffirmed our capacity to work in deep trust of one another.
—Leadership Team, The Hudson Institute
David's clear and incisive coaching served to help me clarify and achieve my goals while also helping me reconnect with my deeper story of what it means to be human.
—Andrew McMasters
Not only is David one of the most authentic, creative, and inspiring facilitators I've ever experienced, my work has also been greatly enhanced by his coaching. If you desire to fully realize your creative power and fulfill your life's work, he's your man.
—H.S.
David's coaching opened my eyes to see myself and my story differently. It was profound and provided an opening through wihch I will continue to grow for a long time to come.
—Rich Keal









