Speaker Robin Gerber

– On Tuesday, August 6, 2013, at 7:00pm the Wrangell Library will be hosting Ms. Robin
Gerber, a powerful speaker, best-selling author and historian.

She has appeared on HistoryChannel and Biography Channel programming, as well as The PBS Newshour, and CBS and FOX channel affiliates. Her articles have appeared in USAToday, the Washington Post, The
Philadelphia Inquirer and numerous other newspapers and magazines. Ms. Gerber is Senior
Faculty for the Institute for Management Studies where she teaches her popular course on
"Authentic Leadership."

Ms. Gerber is the author of the bestseller, Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless
Strategies from the First Lady of Courage (Penguin/Portfolio). Her most recent book is the first
biography of the founder of Mattel, Ruth Handler: Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World’s
Most Famous Doll and Woman Who Created Her (Harper/Collins). Ms. Gerber’s book
Katharine Graham: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon with a foreword by Jim
Collins, author of Good to Great (Penguin/Portfolio), explores the life of the legendary publisher
of The Washington Post newspaper.

Prior to becoming an author, Ms. Gerber practiced law in Washington, D.C. and worked on
Capitol Hill. She has studied and written about leadership development since 1975.