The host of The Get-It-Done Guy's Quick and Dirty Tips to Work Less and Do More (#1 in business category 11/07, top 20 overall, 12/07), Stever Robbins has been a businessperson and entrepreneur since the late 1970s. Stever co-founded the early internet success story FTP Software, and has been a part of nine high-tech start-ups, four IPOs, and three acquisitions. He was COO for Building Blocks Interactive, and project manager at Intuit, where he co-led the development of the award-winning Quicken VISA Card.
Stever began developing business leaders as part of Harvard Business School’s “Leadership and Learning” curriculum redesign project and has been an advisor and mentor to senior managers in several high-growth companies. He currently serves as CEO of Stever Robbins, Inc., where he coaches executives and high-potential leaders. Stever is also a member of the career coaching staff at Harvard Business School.
The creator of the Pull Leadership concept, Stever has written extensively about leadership in his book It Takes a Lot More than Attitude...to Lead a Stellar Organization and in his monthly Harvard Business School Working Knowledge column.
An angel investor or advisor to several young companies, Stever has also been a judge for the Harvard Business School Business Plan competition and the Brown University Business Plan competition. He has also served as a mentor for the MIT $50K Competition.
His work with younger and emerging business leaders includes mentoring high-school students through Junior Achievement, and participating in Boston's "Principal for a Day" program. He is a former Big Brother of America.
Stever holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Computer Sciences from MIT. He is a graduate of W. Edward Deming's Total Quality Management training program, a Certified Master Trainer Elite of NLP, and a Certified Executive Coach.
Stever was a repeat commentator on CNN-fn's Entrepreneurs Only and hosted a regular segment on the nationally syndicated radio show Entrepreneurs, Living the American Dream. He is a featured expert in Harvard Business School Publishing's Harvard Manage Mentor, as well as appearing as an expert in critical thinking and memory in Houghton-Mifflin's forthcoming Skillbuilders series.
He has been quoted in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News, The New York Times, ABC News Now, MSNBC, BusinessWeek Online, and Investor's Business Daily. He has written for Harvard Business Review, The Boston Business Journal and has had columns on Entrepreneur.com and Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge.
In his spare time, Stever's hobbies include comedy improv, swing dancing, singing, interactive theater, Ericksonian hypnosis, and strategy board games. He's learning guitar and is very happy to announce he can play "E." The note, not the chord.