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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.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

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

– Albert Einstein

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

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

– Albert Einstein

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Edgar W. Howe

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

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 would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– The Dalai Lama

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

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

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

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

– Maureen Cook

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

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Brian Tracy

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– Woodrow Wilson

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost