Rob Hershorn

Faculty Instructor
Language, Literature and Performing Arts
Communications

About

Robert Hershorn is a leadership coach and workplace culture facilitator. He helps professionals transform their interpersonal challenges and embrace conflict, seeing it through to resolution. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Truman Institute, has extensive training in non-violent communication, and has taught communication and conflict resolution for over 15 years at universities and colleges in Canada and overseas. His pedagogy weaves his conceptual and practical experience, highlighting self-awareness while navigating bigger issues in communication and conflict. Rob has facilitated symposia and provided training for organizations in group-centered team building, difficult conversations, and diversity and inclusion. All of this comes from his inspiration to assist individuals and communities to work through and reposition the conflict in their lives. 

Interests include: 

  • social-psychology of conflict
  • communication and culture
  • self-awareness and interpersonal communication
  • leadership and workplace culture
  • diversity and inclusion

Professional titles 

  • Former Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Truman Institute

Education and credentials

  • PhD, Simon Fraser
  • MA, Concordia