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"...working with Robin, I have more than tripled my sales and they continue to grow. If you are a high end professional service provider and want to improve your business development capabilities, Robin is the person to call. She gives professional coaching a very good name."

About Raising The Bar

Raising the Bar is a coaching company focused on developing high achieving lawyers, CPAs and other professional service providers into world class rainmakers.

Robin Hensley
President, Raising the Bar
Business Development Coach

Sidney Kirschner
Managing Director
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Robin Hensley

Robin M. Hensley, business development coach, is President of Raising the Bar and author of the recently published Raising the Bar: Legendary Rainmakers Share Their Business Development Secrets.

Robin Hensley has built a legacy of success in the business community. She now serves as a business development coach, assisting individuals in achieving their professional goals and objectives. She specializes in coaching attorneys and CPAs, who are at the top of their game, in order to maximize their rainmaking skills. Her record of involvement in numerous community organizations demonstrates Robin's strong commitment to people and their development.

Robin served on the board of directors of Northside Hospital. She also serves on the board of directors of Superior Uniform Group, listed on NASDAQ, where she chairs the audit committee.

An honors graduate in Accounting from Georgia State University, Robin received the Georgia State University School of Accounting's "Distinguished Alumnus" award. She was on the audit and consulting staff with Ernst & Young for five years and with the Atlanta law firms of Kilpatrick Stockton and Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers in both marketing and business development roles for more than six years. She writes for many publications, including those published by the American Bar Association and Atlanta Bar Association.

Her honors include The Atlanta Legal Aid Society advisory board of directors, Leadership Atlanta alumnae, honorary lifetime board member of the Metro Atlanta Chapter of the American Cancer Society, Business Atlanta "Top 40 under 40", and Atlanta Business Chronicle "Top 20 Self-made Women of Atlanta". Robin's work as a business development coach has been featured in numerous publications, including the Atlanta Business Chronicle and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is Exclusive Executive Coach for Atlanta's Business to Business magazine.

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Sidney Kirschner, Managing Director

Sidney Kirschner, Managing Director, leads the Raising the Bar consultancy practice in strategic planning, profitability modeling, pricing and compensation.

Sidney Kirschner is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Northside Hospital. Before joining Northside Hospital, Sid was the chairman, president, and CEO of National Service Industries (NSI), a Fortune 500 company. Prior to NSI, he was the president of the Electric Motor Division of General Dynamics Corporation.

A graduate of the New Mexico School of Mines, Sid spent the early part of his career in engineering roles with Aerojet, Aerospace Corporation and Curtiss-Wright Corporation where he quickly rose through the management ranks. He is currently the Head of School at the Alfred and Adele Davis Academy in Atlanta. Governor Sonny Perdue recently appointed Sid to the Georgia Board of the Department of Community Health, the lead agency in Georgia for health care planning and purchasing with an annual budget of $11 billion.

Sid serves on the board of directors of Crown Crafts, Inc., Cleveland Group, Inc., GetProof, Inc., Superior Uniform Co. Inc., Zyvax Corporation, Inc., Atlanta Jewish Federation, William Breman Jewish Home, Jewish Family & Career Services, and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He is Executive in Residence at the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University. He was a long-time member of the board of directors of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce -- SE Region, (AICC) and chaired AICC's Medical Committee, which organized the acclaimed Southeast-Israel Medical Technology Business Exchange in 2002. In 2005, Governor Sonny Perdue appointed Kirschner to the 5-person Commission for the City of Sandy Springs.

Past affiliations include service on the board of directors for the American Red Cross, VHA of Georgia, Georgia First, Principle Healthcare of Georgia, the Metro Atlanta Chapter of the American Cancer Society, Atlanta Jewish Federation, Sandy Springs Revitalization, Inc., and United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta.

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