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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.

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Albert Einstein

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

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

– Helen Keller

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Steven Schussler

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Noela Evans

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

– E.B. White

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– Bruce Lee

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie