Robin Cox was a principal of two co-educational schools in southern Africa, youth national sports coach, and developer of youth mentoring programs in New Zealand and Australia. He has written books for teacher-mentors, and on peer and youth mentoring. 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, has two adult children and two delightful grandchildren, and lives in New Zealand.