Dr. Robin Stern
About Dr. Robin Stern
Robin Stern, Ph.D., is a licensed psychoanalyst, educator, author, and commentator. As a renowned expert in gaslight manipulation, emotional intelligence and women in leadership, her work bridges the gap between theory and the public square.
She co-founded the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence with Marc Brackett and currently serves as the senior advisor to the director. Through her work with Yale, she co-developed RULER(an acronym for the five key emotion skills of recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing, and regulating emotions) an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by over 5,000 schools across the United States and in 27 other countries, and the app HowWeFeel, designed to teach the language of emotions and enhance well-being. She has created numerous trauma-informed courses which are available to educators.
Robin is the author of The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life, the critically acclaimed book published in 2007. A second edition of the book was released in 2018 which included the role of gaslighting in politics. In 2023, the workbook version The Gaslight Effect Recovery Guide, was published to help those navigating gaslighting relationships find their road to recovery. She launched The Gaslight Effect Podcast. in 2022. As the host, she and her guests explore the phenomena of gaslighting from relationships, to cults, to culture.
Robin is a founding member of The School at Columbia University where she served as emotional intelligence coach and consultant for faculty for several years. She is a co-founder of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, a founding member of the Summer Principals Academy at Teachers College, and co-creator of the inaugural course in Self Awareness and Emotional Intelligence. She continues to help educational leaders enhance their emotional intelligence skills through training of her co-created STAR Factor Coaching model. The model has been adapted widely in New York City schools, with more than five hundred superintendents and principals coached under the program. In 2023, she co-authored Emotional Intelligence for School Leaders published by Harvard Education Press.
Robin is a regular consultant and keynote speaker with companies (Meta, Lancôme, Google, Samsung, Time Inc.) and hospitals (Yale New Haven Hospital, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital) on the application of emotional intelligence in management and leadership. She is the co-founder of Oji Life Lab, a digital emotional intelligence learning system for businesses and organizations that can be personalized for teams and industry experts. She also serves on the advisory board for organizations including: Crisis Text Line (where she wrote an early training for their crisis counselors), Think Equal, Give us the Floor and The International Society for Emotional Intelligence.
A frequent writer and commentator, she has been featured in many popular media outlets including Washington Post, Psychology Today, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company.
In 2014-15 Robin was a fellow in the Yale Public Voices Fellowship.
Robin continues to cultivate awareness on topics such as gaslighting, building skills of emotional intelligence and resilience and other provocative initiatives through her work over the years with nonprofits including: The Garrison Institute, Project Rebirth, and as an Ambassador for Peace for the UN Women for Peace Association. In 2023, she accepted a new appointment as Ambassador for the University of Peace, permanent mission to the United Nations.
Dr. Stern Is Available For:
- Keynote Speaking Engagements
- Guest Panelist Spots
- Podcast and Journalistic Interviews
- Brand Endorsements
- Legal Expert Testimony
- Guest Appearances
- Leadership Coach Assignments
About the Gaslight Effect Podcast
In simplest terms, gaslighting is the act of manipulating someone’s reality to the point where they question their sanity. Targets of gaslighting are manipulated into turning against their cognition, their emotions, and who they are as people.
Sound familiar? Have you experienced it? You probably know the term because many mainstream platforms are talking about these concepts. They’ve turned into TV shows, movies and music; a testament to how prevalent this concept has penetrated our daily lives. Ever heard of Inventing Anna? The Tinder Swindler? What about Bad Vegan? Gaslit the TV Show? And what about the album “Gaslight” by the Chicks? It’s everywhere. Gaslighting is front and center, and this is only the beginning.
As a licensed psychoanalyst, Dr. Stern has dealt with individuals, couples, and families for over 30 years. She has seen it all, and is creating this podcast to hopefully help others out there who may be going through something similar.
Throughout The Gaslight Effect Podcast we will talk to several guests about their gaslighting experiences and make an attempt to understand what truly happened. And of course, how to avoid it. She wants you to know that this journey isn’t simple, or easy. Gaslighting is a complicated process that includes several steps. Those that have been gaslighted (including myself), got here because we went through those steps. Just as we got into the situation, we can get ourselves out of it.
The Gaslight Effect
In this groundbreaking guide, prominent psychologist Dr. Robin Stern shows how the Gaslight Effect works, how you can decide which relationships can be saved and which you have to walk away from—and how to “gasproof” your life so as to avoid a gaslighting relationship.
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Oji Life Lab
Oji Life Lab offers breakthrough soft skills learning programs for the hybrid workplace. Our self-paced learning programs – “Life Labs” – blend mobile micro-learning experiences with live video-based coaching, helping your teams build skills that last a lifetime. Life Labs exploring emotional intelligence and decision-making are driving great results today at leading organizations. Each Life Lab in our growing portfolio is built on groundbreaking research from world-renowned academics including Marc Brackett of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Our mission: help millions of people around the world take a leap forward in performance.
robin.stern@yale.edu
