Developing Emotional Intelligence w/ Robin Hills

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, I am O'Brien McMahon, and this is People Business.

In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Robin Hills.

Dr. Robin Hills is a business psychologist and the director of EI for Change, a company specializing in emotional intelligence training, coaching, and personal development.

The company was awarded International Impact Company of the Year by Dotcom Magazine in 2025.

With the most comprehensive and detailed courses around the topic of emotional intelligence, Robin has taught and empowered more than 500,000 people across 200 plus countries.

I think emotional intelligence is one of the core skills underpinning any type of success we want to have when dealing with another person, when dealing with other people, or as we talk about in this conversation, dealing with ourselves.

It really starts with understanding ourselves and our own emotions, and then building to have better one-on-one interactions and building better interactions with our team.

which is really what this whole show is about.

Every episode of this show is meant to either help you become a better version of yourself, have better interpersonal interactions with other people, or organize and lead people toward achieving some kind of common cause.

And all of that sits upon the foundation of strong emotional intelligence.

As we get into this conversation, I will give you one warning.

It does end a little bit abruptly.

Robin was having some trouble with his power and connectivity right before we started the episode.

We had a great conversation.

I was just about to put a bow on it and his internet cut out again.

And so it does end a little bit abruptly, but we got the full conversation and just missed maybe one or two closing comments at the end.

So there's a bunch here, but I don't want you to be startled by the abrupt cliffhanger at the end.

I hope you enjoy this.

I think it'll be really helpful for everyone, whether you are an individual contributor or a manager of one person or leader of an organization or team.

There's a ton in here that can help you have better success across anything you're trying to do.

So here is Dr. Robin Hills.