I help leaders create great people-centered work & place experiences.
Over my three-plus decades serving in corporate and industry leadership roles, I’ve learned that I am at my best when I am helping others do their best work. Today, I do this mostly through leadership & executive coaching; learning facilitation; strategic advisory, consulting and thought-leadership. I possess a healthy dose of EQ, while also having a strong business acumen and the ability to speak CFO, CIO and CHRO, among others. A common theme across my portfolio of work is a focus on uncovering and leveraging the strengths inherent in the individuals, teams, and organizations I work with, serve and support.
Select Clients: Co-Founder & COO, Early Stage Tech (45 yrs); Co-Founder & COO, Pre-IPO FinTech (35 yrs); Partner, Professional Services (38 yrs); CEO, Boutique Consulting firm (50 yrs); Project Manager, Fortune 500 Tech (40 yrs); SVP, Top Tier Real Estate Services (35 yrs); Regional Leader, Fortune 500 Tech (45 yrs); Director, Fortune 500 Tech (40 yrs); VP, Fortune 500 FinServ (40 yrs).
I have embraced leadership and executive coaching as part of my management and leadership approach for the better part of a decade. As a corporate executive, I discovered coaching to be something I truly enjoyed as demand for my ‘services’ began to include peers and others in increasing numbers. In 2020, I decided to seek industry certification and to launch my formal coaching practice. Today, individual and team coaching accounts for upwards of 25% of my work.
I coach from a place of curiosity and active inquiry, and not from a place of advice-giving or subject matter expertise; that is what separates my coaching work from my advisory and consulting work.
My typical client is a successful professional who has a strong interest in becoming a next-level leader, and/or who needs help getting un-stuck. And, most importantly, is one who comes to coaching willingly.
My coaching unfolds through a disciplined focus on unlocking what is already inherently in my clients, whether that be strengths, direction, answers and so on. My clients set the destination; I help with the navigation. And while I do focus on coaching the whole person, I do not offer life-coaching; my intent is to help my clients be their best professional selves.
Can I be of service to you or your team? Curious to learn more about my coaching? Please connect with me.
Testimonials:
“When you walk into a coaching session with Robert, be prepared to go on a wonderful journey of understanding who you are as a leader. His coaching style is very effective, and it enables me to find answers and solutions for critical milestones in my career. Before working with him I didn’t know how big of a difference it makes when someone is really coaching you vs. advising.
Coaching with Robert empowered me to choose my own direction confidently and work toward goals that are more aligned with my interest and long-term purpose. Coaching conversations with him helped me in cutting out the noise and focus on the things that really matter.
He is so present in every session and gently guides me in finding my voice without generalizing or judging. I am so grateful that I have Robert as my coach, friend, and mentor. I can’t recommend him enough as a coach – he brings the best out of you!”
V.J., 35, Senior Manager, Business Continuity Management, Fortune 500 Technology Company
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“Robert’s coaching has enabled me to uncover powerful insights to help me reach key decisions, decipher limiting beliefs that have often been holding me back, and how I frame what success looks like for me in my role and career. He creates a trusted and safe environment and I end every call feeling more confident and excited to deliver my best. I can’t recommend Robert enough as a coach and thought partner to anyone looking to grow as a person and a leader.”
S.K., 38, Director, Google
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“Being coached by Robert has enabled me to shape and implement a set of professional objectives that have improved my performance as a leader. The coaching tools provided by Robert were fundamental in helping me define my professional purpose (My Why) at this stage in my career.
Robert has empowered me to clearly identify the areas to focus on to bring the greatest benefit to my current role and career development. He has a remarkable ability to ask the right questions to elicit deep self-reflection, which led to positive change.
If you are seeking guidance on defining your Why and Next career move, I highly encourage you to invest in yourself by reaching out to Robert!”
M.V., 43, Corporate Real Estate, Regional Portfolio Leader, Technology Company
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“Working with Robert has been so impactful for me and my evolution as a leader. He has helped me hone in on my leadership style, take charge of my calendar and set boundaries, and gain better work life balance and lower stress levels by helping me focus my energies in the right places with my team and in my organization. He has helped me to better identify the value that I bring in my role and to better understand what my work product is as a leader. Robert is completely focused on my outcomes and progress and I am always so impressed with how focused and prepared he is for our sessions. I would absolutely recommend Robert as a leadership coach—or as I like to think of him—as a work therapist. I look forward to continuing my work with Robert!”
B.D., 42, Head of Workplace Strategy & Change Management, Industry-Leading Life Sciences Company
As a strategic advisor, I tend to work with earlier-stage companies who are making an impact in and around the employee experience and the workplace. I currently sit on the advisory boards of:
My prior advisory boards include:
As a consultant, I work with enterprises of all shapes and sizes in their quest to create human-centric workplaces (in the broadest sense of the word ‘workplaces’). I have a particular focus on helping shape the post-pandemic workplace, less from a physical perspective and more from an experiential one.
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Founder & Chief Coaching Officer (March 2004 – Present)
Executive Coach (July 2022 – Present)
VP, Real Estate & Workplace Services (October 2014 – June 2016)
VP, Workplace Solutions (July 2010 – October 2014)
Sr Director, Global Facilities (August 2007 – July 2010)
Instructor (May 2007 – July 2010)
SVP & Alliance Director (January 2005 – August 2007)
National Operations Executive/Sr Portfolio Manager (July 2001 – January 2005)
Vice President, Client Solutions (January 2001 – July 2001)
Corporate Real Estate Executive (January 2000 – January 2001)
Director, Facilities Management & Various (December 1996 – January 2000)
Director, Facilities Management (June 1996 – December 1996)
Various (March 1988 – June 1996)Leaders
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