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Robin Strongin, Disruptive Women in Health Care

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Robin Strongin is an accomplished public affairs expert with more than 25 years of experience working in Washington, DC. Her areas of specialization include health care, science, technology, and innovation. Robin has worked with and for federal and state governments, regulatory agencies, Congress, think tanks, nonprofit organizations, corporations, coalitions, and trade associations.

She founded Disruptive Women in Health Care in 2008 to serve as a platform for provocative ideas, thoughts, and solutions in the health sphere. “We recognize that to accomplish this, we need to call on experts outside of the health industry”, she asserts.

“The founding Disruptive Women have audacious hopes for our blog,” Strongin says. “We’re not managing change, we’re not waiting for cures. We’re driving change, we’re creating chaos, and we’re finding cures. In a nutshell: We’re disrupting the status quo in the health machine. “Our goal is to become the go-to health care blog—one that is recognized as a Petri dish for fresh ideas and bold solutions. Won’t you join us?”

She is also the president of Amplify Public Affairs, the next generation in public affairs, leading the way in integrating new media and traditional communications strategies. With unequalled expertise in aligning allies, connecting voices, and promoting action, Amplify serves as a relationship builder, creating and sustaining win-win collaborations to move issues forward and influence targeted audiences. Through the blending of innovative communication technologies, credible coalition-building, grassroots and top-tiered public affairs expertise, Amplify leverages connections to achieve targeted objectives in the public, private, and political arena.

Contact Robin by email, rstrongin@amplifypublicaffairs.net.

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou