Bio

Robin Schepper and her firm Wayfinder, Inc. provides professional leadership coaching and designs and leads retreats. She also specializes in organizational development, strategic planning and communications training. She believes that the most effective tool of leadership is communications – whether it is in personal relationships, organizations, coalitions or individuals. 

After finishing a four-year project working with the Athens Organizing Committee for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games where Robin provided strategic communications counsel, created and trained the staff of the communications and press and worked with thousands of reporters from around the world covering the Olympics, she decided to start her own company called Wayfinder, Inc. in 2005.

Wayfinder’s past and present clients include the Casey Trees Endowment, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Island Press, American Forests, The Dewey Square Group, Liston/Adelstein Media Consulting and the Center for International Policy. Robin is a certified Retreat Coach, a member of the International Coaching Federation and received her coaching training at CoachU.

Over the past 15 years, Robin has worked in many arenas. She was a small business owner, co-founding Pyramid Communications, a Seattle-based public affairs company that specializes in environmental, Native American and social justice concerns. She has worked on a number of international events including the 1997 G-8 Economic Summit and the 50^th Anniversary of NATO, both hosted by the United States. And has worked for both government agencies and non-profit groups including the Centers for Disease Control, the Ford Foundation, the Ancient Forest Alliance, Save our Wild Salmon, the Legal Services Council, and for the governments of Colombia and the Philippines.

Robin has also spent many years working in Democratic politics starting with the 1988 presidential campaign where she worked for Rep. Gephardt and then Gov. Dukakis. She worked on the 1992 and 1996 Clinton-Gore campaigns running Washington State in 1996. She worked for the White House setting up official visits for President Clinton to places like China, Bosnia, Venezuela, Spain, Germany and Uganda.

Raised in Europe and the United States, Robin is passionate about traveling, languages, sports and photography. At present, she lives in Washington, DC with her husband Eric, their sons, Marat and Shokhan, and the family pets, Winston, Zoe and Sidney.