“Rob is my secret weapon.”

—Michele Sadow, Business Operations and Chief of Staff, Intel Corporation

Skills for thriving in a transforming workplace

I help ambitious, high-potential business leaders unlock their superpowers to realize their full potential and achieve sustained, break-through success in today’s fast-changing workplace and competitive business environment. If that’s you, I can help you develop and amplify the leadership skills critical for leading and thriving, and maximizing impact for yourself, your team and your company. I can also work with you to clearly define your personal career North Star and a pragmatic, phased plan for a sustained trajectory to reach your objectives.

It’s time to thrive. Let’s get started.

Set the pace

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Challenge the status quo

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Be values driven

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Get to win/win outcomes

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Walk the talk

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Drive continuous improvement

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Build followership

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Increase influence

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Build trust

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Rally people

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Foster innovation

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Build a growth mindset

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Take strategy to action

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Increase emotional intelligence

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Set the pace · Challenge the status quo · Be values driven · Get to win/win outcomes · Walk the talk · Drive continuous improvement · Build followership · Increase influence · Build trust · Rally people · Foster innovation · Build a growth mindset · Take strategy to action · Increase emotional intelligence ·

I’m all in as your executive coach.

My services are 100% focused on excellence in individualized and customized executive coaching for leaders. I’ll gladly refer you to my extensive network if you are looking for other strategic assistance like consulting or advising services.

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Who are you and what are you grappling with?

My typical clients are either senior executives, mid to upper-level managers, or business owners who work in medium– to large–size businesses. These clients are often in organizations that are growing, expanding, and evolving. They focus on high tech or adjacent industries, or are service-based businesses leveraging technology.

I help my clients build their skills, increase their confidence, and develop plans that they can effectively implement for break-through success:

  • Building new or turning around underperforming global businesses and/or teams

  • Optimizing strategic planning and improving decision making

  • Driving results through others and maximizing employee engagement and performance

  • Building influence, credibility, and collaboration across highly-matrixed organizations

  • Working through ambiguity, conflict, change, transitions, and tough times

  • Fostering innovation and a growth mindset

  • Integrating new teams or acquisitions

  • Maximizing strengths and enhancing self awareness and emotional intelligence

Together, we’ll turn these challenges into opportunities for growth, resilience, and success.

How can I help you? 

My work tends to focus in these key areas.

(Click on a focus area for more detail.)

  • If you’re feeling stuck in your job or career or you’re seeking bigger scope and opportunities and want to accelerate your career, I can help you clarify your ultimate career objectives and put a customized action plan in place to get there.

  • Everything starts by understanding your strengths and potential blind spots. I’ll help you increase your self awareness, your emotional intelligence, your ability to deal with complex or ambiguous situations, your political astuteness, and increase your confidence with skills you can directly apply in the workplace.

  • Defining strategy and strategic plans is hard and most people don’t know how to get to the essence of the “why” and the “what.” I’ll help you hone your skills to improve strategic foresight, ask the right questions, establish a vision and objectives, effectively grapple with complex problems, establish goals and priorities, and craft a strategy that can be taken to action for you and your team.

  • Having the right people and the right culture are foundational to business success. I’ll help you in areas such as: enrolling and rallying teams, maximizing employee engagement, building a strong team culture, role clarity, reducing conflict, and driving lasting results.

  • Trust and strong relationships with your team, with your peers, and with upper management are mission-critical for your career and for business impact. I’ll help you develop a plan so you can foster innovation, create followership, improve communications, and build a track record of success that opens more doors.

  • There’s no question that the amount of change in the workplace is accelerating exponentially. I’ll help you develop skills to better deal with ambiguity, work through tough times, navigate change, deal with conflict management, and break down stubborn organizational silos.

  • Competing priorities, individual agendas, lack of clarity … we see it all and at many layers of the organization.  I’ll help you develop plans for increasing collaboration across organizations, aligning diverse stakeholders, getting comfortable being a change agent, and helping provide clarity for your team.

Are we a good match?

Client / coach fit is a critical aspect of ensuring your best coaching experience and opportunity for sustained outcomes. As a potential client, you can look at my core values for fit and to understand what you can expect of me (and, in return, what I would expect of you):

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    Trust

    Ensuring a clear and compelling foundation from which to build a fruitful and sustained client / coach relationship.

  • Icon of a stylized heart indicating authenticity and your whole self

    Authenticity

    Providing open, honest feedback to drive improvement (getting the good, the bad, and the ugly on the table.)

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    Growth mindset

    Instilling optimism to drive the best outcomes.

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    People-first / Empathy

    Growing the ability to see other world views and to bring people along.

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    Challenge-oriented

    Setting a high bar for outcomes that achieve breakthroughs.

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    Long-lasting relationships

    Engagements of 6-12+ months with follow-ons to touch base to ensure sustained development and outcomes.

What do I bring to the table?

I offer a 30+ year track record of global business, leadership, and senior management experience across a variety of technology, industry, and service categories spanning $10Ms to $100Ms in revenue. In each case, I successfully built new businesses or turned around under-performing P&Ls, product lines, and global teams. My skill areas include strategy development, product management, business development, user experience, customer experience, and working across functions.

My best work has been fixing a business’ big, hairy, and complex problems, aligning stakeholders across organizations, rallying teams to take strategy-to-action, setting a fast-paced, results-oriented culture, and bringing order out of chaos in complex, highly-matrixed workplaces.

I was consistently recognized as a top performer and a role model manager and leader, often scoring in the top 10% by my direct reports and top quartile by department employees. I developed a cross-organization reputation as a highly desired mentor and coach. With that, I set aside time to formally mentor and coach leaders, managers, and ambitious employees both within and beyond my business group.

I’m now melding my business experience and my long-standing internal coaching prowess to help you unlock your potential as a leader to realize sustained breakthroughs and results that help you maximize your impact and success.

If this resonates with you, then please reach out so that we can meet and discuss the possibilities and potential. Together, we can define a plan that accelerates your impact and your career.

  • “Rob is an exceptional leader and coach. He starts with vision or North Star first and guides others to do the same. While most people tend to jump into execution mode of “who,” “how,” and “when,” Rob focuses on starting with defining the “why” and “what” of the topic to be addressed. He has an intuitive understanding of organizational personalities and processes, and he is purposeful and thoughtful, which is evident in his effective leadership style and approach to coaching.”

    Thor Sewell, AI Compute Product Management Director, Celestica

  • “Thank you so much for your coaching and guidance! I wanted to let you know that I received an ‘Exceeds Expectations’ for my year-end annual rating.”

    Michele Sadow, Business Operations and Chief of Staff, Intel Corporation

  • “In a prior role, I was tasked with the challenging job of building a centralized business development team to bring clarity and alignment across multiple siloed organizations, all working with dozens of shared external partners. Rob championed this effort, providing invaluable guidance in aligning both senior and internal stakeholders around a common vision and strategy. His leadership not only fostered trust and support within the organization, but also helped navigate and remove political red tape, enabling smoother collaboration. As a result, our external partners were more engaged and eager to do business with us.” 

    Tony Kau, Senior Director, Portfolio Product Management, TE Connectivity

  • “Rob approaches everything with rigor and enthusiasm. He is generous with his time but also expects you to do the homework. He has keen insight and can very clearly help you articulate the problem or gray area that you might be struggling to define, which provides valuable perspective.”

    Maria Frick, Operations Manager, Intel Corporation

  • “Rob is an exceptional coach, with a natural talent for guiding professionals through strategic planning and execution. His ability to foster growth and build collaborative, cross-functional teams position him as an invaluable asset to drive change within an organization. Leaders seeking to enhance their skills and drive personal development will find Rob’s expertise and supportive approach to be transformative.” 

    Cam Harty, Director, Intel Corporation