Small shifts in how we connect and collaborate can have a big impact on individuals, teams and organizations.
Known for his pragmatic view and interactive style, Rob creates compelling and interactive sessions for audiences of all sizes and across levels and sectors. Whether giving a conference keynote, presenting at a corporate event or conducting a workshop, he tailors the message to ensure audience engagement and high-value takeaways.
Unlike many speakers, Rob deepens the impact and diffuses the learning through companion online and offline tools and courses. Card sort or workbook activities, used virtually or in the room, optimize engagement with the content. Action planning, online diagnostics and post-program webinars bring participants more deeply into the content and help individuals and teams establish new, more effective ways of working.
Rob’s research and insights have changed the way thousands of leaders manage their organizations and cultivate personal connectivity, enabling them to outperform and thrive in a hyper-connected world.
Keynotes and Presentations
Rob shows how network research can be applied to individual, team and organizational goals and transform the way you lead, work and live.
- Organizational Performance and Innovation. Topics include creating agile organizations, optimizing network-centric talent strategies, driving successful organizational change through networks and network drivers of psychologically safe/thriving cultures.
- Teaming and Agility at the Point of Execution. Topics include network drivers of team/unit agility, collaborative practices of high-performing teams/units and overcoming six dysfunctional patterns of collaboration that derail groups.
- Personal Performance and Well-Being through Networks. Topics include how high performers innovate, execute and thrive through networks, how successful people reduce collaborative overload and social agility in transitions (entry, lateral transfers and promotions) through network practices.
Leadership Development and Workshops
Rob designs workshops around five pressing needs for leadership offsites and strategy sessions, executive education programs, team launches or development efforts.
- Managing Personal Connectivity for Performance and Well-Being. Successful people are 18-24% more efficient in their collaborations and use this time to build networks that generate innovation, performance and well-being.
- Managing Transitions through Social Agility. Entering new organizations, lateral transfers or promotions are increasingly common failure points that people can avoid through specific network practices deployed through a transition.
- Thriving in a Hyper-Connected World. Successful and happy people better address relational micro-stresses and invest in connections that support physical health, growth in and out of work, a sense of purpose/meaning and resilience.
- Collaborative Practices of Agile Teams and Units. More successful groups avoid six dysfunctional patterns of collaboration that undermine success and more rapidly form networks inside and outside of teams/units at critical points.
- Driving Innovation and Business Results through Networks. High-performing organizations are four times more likely to be managing networks and collaboration in ways that reduce collaborative inefficiency and overload, drive emergent innovation, create agile cultures and optimize talent engagement.
Deepen the Impact, Diffuse the Insights
Rob has worked closely with leading organizations to create physical and virtual assets to extend learning and engage teams and colleagues.
- Card sort or workbook activities, used virtually or in the room, optimize engagement with the content.
- Online diagnostics bring participants more deeply into the content and offer option to obtain rater feedback if desired after the session.
- Online action planning promotes accountability for each person.
- Optional team-level assessments and guidance to establish more effective ways of working.
- Webinars six to eight weeks after a program keep cohort connections alive.
- Multiple methods to assess impact of actions taken to create ROI on program.
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off-site or event.
Learn more about Rob’s speaking and workshops—and how he deepens the impact and diffuses learning through courses and tools.
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