Robyn Short is an organizational systems design consultant, mediator, peacebuilder, and founder of the Workplace Peace Institute, where she works with leaders across industries to build organizations grounded in dignity, belonging, and the conscious use of power.

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Her practice sits at the intersection of conflict resolution, trauma-informed leadership, and organizational systems design. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, has completed training through the Right Use of Power Institute, and is a graduate of Warriors for the Human Spirit, the program led by Margaret Wheatley.

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She has served as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University, Bay Path University, and Texas A&M Commerce, and has guest lectured at Pepperdine University’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and Creighton University’s Master of Conflict and Dispute Resolution program.

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Robyn holds a Doctor of Liberal Studies with a focus in peace studies and systems design, a Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution, and a Master of Liberal Arts from Southern Methodist University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Auburn University. She lives in Colorado, on the ancestral lands of the Ute people. The Matriarch Effect is her fifth book.