Robert E. Staub

Robert (Dusty) Staub has worked for over 30 years with executives, families, and communities as well as with private and public companies. Through his company, Staub Leadership, he has trained and coached executives and teams in creating high performance outcomes. Dusty has been a pioneer in the process of creating systemic accountability by aligning leadership and group behaviors with strategy to produce bottom-line results.

He has worked and traveled extensively in Europe and the United States. He is the author of "The Heart of Leadership: Twelve Practices of Courageous Leaders," released in an updated, revised edition in paperback and "The 7 Acts of Courage: Bold Leadership for a Wholehearted Life." His newest book, "Dynamic Focus: Creating Significance & Breaking the Spells of Limitation" was written with Wayne S. Gerber and was released in 2013. Dusty has written over two hundred articles on topics such as leadership, team-based creativity, personal mastery, team effectiveness, personal effectiveness and business strategy.

Dusty is a fellow in the School of Engineering at Virginia Tech, and received his Masters in Clinical Social Work in Marital and Family Therapy and Systems Management from UNC Chapel Hill. He currently lives in Kernersville, NC with his wife Christine, a family physician. Dusty is the proud father of three young adults.