Manhattan Stories: Luxury Real Estate with Entrepreneur Kelly Robinson

Kelly Robinson is a senior real estate broker and founder of The Kelly Robinson Team. She has been selling luxury residential real estate in New York City since 2005.

When speaking of what attracted her to the luxury real estate industry, Kelly notes a passion for design from a young age. “[The attraction to the industry was the idea of] working for myself and the fact that I have always been interested in real estate and interior design since a very young age. I used to make my parents go to open houses when I was a kid and was always redecorating my bedroom.”

Kelly’s unique viewpoint is bolstered by a broad background in many areas of the real estate market, including resales, new construction projects, investor, and buyer representation.

This multifaceted knowledge continues to foster her sharp negotiation skills, consistently leading to record-breaking prices and loyalty amongst clientele. She specializes in working with high-profile individuals across the sports and entertainment sectors and is very protective of the need for discretion.

Kelly has been featured in multiple publications, including GQ, ​HGTV: What’s the Difference Between a Condo, Co-op, and Loft, Glamour, Harper’s, and FOX 5 News.

Kelly has also been featured as one of the Top 20 New York Real Estate Agents on Instagram to Follow.

Setting Herself Apart from the Competition

Kelly and her team specialize in finding off-market homes in a low inventory market and working with experienced luxury real estate professionals, renovating to increase value.

Other project specialties include rebranding previously unsold properties, consulting on layouts and finishes for new construction and private home renovations, staging, and advising cooperative boards on increasing value in a market that favors condominiums.

In consideration of the characteristics that have gotten her to this point in her career, Kelly attributes it to: “Hard work, dedication, and creativity. We approach everyone with kindness and empathy. I have an empathetic approach to negotiation, which is perfect for luxury residential sales, which are emotional transactions for both sellers and buyers. However, that doesn’t mean I am not shrewd and tough enough to get it done. It allows me to maintain strong relationships within my industry. There is a fine line.”

When it comes to luxury real estate in Manhattan, Kelly represents the best of the best. She is professional, knowledgeable, and always puts her clients first. Whether you are looking to buy or sell a property, Kelly is the agent you want on your side.

Kelly’s business is mainly referral-based and maintains a 97% client retention rate. She offers a data-driven approach (numbers don’t lie). In business, she goes way above and beyond to service clients, responds immediately, and sticks around for whatever the client needs after the transaction is over. Kelly is a certified negotiation expert and has studied the art of negotiation extensively, including how to negotiate with people from other cultures.

Kelly holds a BFA from Rutgers University’s highly selective Mason Gross School the Arts and furthered her education at NYU. She has won numerous awards and is NYRS and CNE designated. She is also co-founder of the EJR Scholarship Fund.

Shawn Fair Invites Leadership Coach Nicholas “Nick” Jiles Back to the Leadership Experience Tour

The next round of talks in the Leadership Conference Tour is going to be a motivational powerhouse as entrepreneur, trainer, and business executive Shawn Fair invites leadership coach and speaker Nicholas “Nick” Jiles back into the highly exclusive club for exceptional and passionate public speakers around the world today. The explosive addition of Jiles into the club this year is a testament to Shawn’s commitment to maintaining a pool of the best speakers there are from every corner of the globe to inspire people to pursue their dreams relentlessly by being unstoppable leaders in their respective fields. 

Shawn is currently one of the most sought-after business consultants for large companies in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Throughout the course of his inspiring career, he has trained more than 300,000 leaders across the world, teaching world-class approaches and principles that will allow them to become the best version of themselves. Creating the Leadership Conference Tour was part of his dream to unite like-minded leaders who value the importance of mentorship to create leaders who will change the world. The exclusive club also gives these leaders a powerful platform to speak from their hearts. 

With Nick back on board, exciting times are ahead of the Leadership Conference Tour. Nick is an Air Force retiree and the founder of 180 Leadership Coaching, an avenue where coaches, leaders, and managers can come and learn how to enhance and sharpen their skills further to suit the changing times. Nick has more than 20 years of experience in transformational leadership and specializes in helping young leaders identify their blind spots. In doing this, leaders are empowered to improve their overall organizational structure and inspire productivity within the workplace. 

His other expertise includes finding ways to improve leadership capabilities through assessments, training sessions, shadowing company operations, and coaching. Even while Nick was still active in the service, he already showed an innate passion for training others. Part of his responsibilities back then was to train military pilots in search, evasion, rescue, and escape (SERE) techniques that focused on surviving in difficult situations as well as how to endure being captured by enemy combatants. 

Nick also became a Military Training Instructor, where he was responsible for training thousands of personnel. He taught them about the kind of impact they have on the organization and how they can exercise leadership no matter what their position and roles may be. Nick founded 180 Leadership Coaching when he retired to continue what he has always been passionate about: training people. As a retired veteran, he also went into doing management and leadership training for different companies, expanding his sphere of influence both in and outside the military. 

Judging from the kind of passion that Nick shows whenever he is training people, he will be doing it long-term to impact more lives positively. Sharing Shawn’s vision once again will guarantee that they will both make a huge difference in the lives of thriving leaders across the globe. 

Visit the Fair Consulting Group website to find out more about the Leadership Experience Tour and Shawn Fair. Check out 180 Leadership Coaching’s website for more information about its services.