Robin Cox was a school principal of two co-educational schools in southern Africa, sports coach to national under-nineteen level, and developer of youth mentoring programs in New Zealand and Australia. He has written books about teacher-mentors, youth mentoring, peer mentoring, and encouraging youth to fulfill their potential. He has trained over a thousand volunteer adult mentors; run education and spirit of mentoring workshops in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, and Jamaica; and personally mentored over a thousand adolescents and many adults. A cancer survivor, Robin is married with two adult children and two delightful grandchildren and lives in New Zealand.