Executive Coach · Teacher · Facilitator
Advisor for the
Intelligence Age
I work with founders, executives, and their teams on the judgment that matters when intelligence is cheap.
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Executive Coach · Teacher · Facilitator
I work with founders, executives, and their teams on the judgment that matters when intelligence is cheap.
Get in touch
"The most expensive thing in your life is the conversation you're avoiding."
I've watched capable leaders spend months — sometimes years — circling something they needed to say. To a co-founder, a direct report, an investor. Sometimes to themselves. Every week it doesn't happen, the cost compounds: the team senses the avoidance, the culture absorbs the ambiguity, the decision calcifies in the wrong direction. When the conversation finally happens, it almost always goes better than they feared. That's what happens when you set it up right.
That's where most of the leverage lives. But it doesn't end there.
You often already know what needs to change. Something's in the way — a story you're telling yourself, a fear you haven't looked at directly, a pattern you keep running.
Most sessions end with something built. A script, a decision rule, a 30/60/90. I respond to ambiguity with lightweight scaffolding you can use immediately.
The co-founder dynamic. The direct report you've rescheduled three times. More than half the work is strategizing these conversations before you have them.
Role clarity. Decision rights. Meeting cadence. The organizational design questions that keep showing up as people problems.
Leaders call me when something has to go well. A stuck quarter, a co-founder rift, a reorg, a crisis with no playbook. The job is the same: get it moving, and grow the people carrying it.
One-on-one, ongoing work with founders, executives, and leaders under real pressure. To start, this typically looks like assessing your capabilities and getting traction on anything that's stuck. It's my job to make sure you and your team are growing at least as fast as the company.
At some point, the work outgrows the private conversation.
Facilitation is the art of creating a context. Offsites, planning cycles, coordinated response to a crisis. Groups are complex: power and status are in the room, and people try to look aligned before they actually are. I design sessions that end in commitments people track.
A company's ability to execute is correlated with the do:say ratio of its executive team.
Structured programs that upgrade a whole team at once: first-time managers, feedback and difficult conversations, conflict and communication, Right Relationship with AI, and AI enablement and implementation. I also design bespoke trainings that meet your team where it is and take it to the next level.
When intelligence gets cheap, judgment gets expensive.
I've followed AI for twenty years from two seats at once: cognitive science and contemplative practice. Now I build with it daily. My practice runs on tools I make myself.
The current range: realtime synthesis that shows groups what they're actually saying, voice agents over twenty years of my own notes, adaptive assessments in clinical use, and pattern analysis across hundreds of my own coaching sessions.
What I care about is what these systems do to human judgment, attention, and relationships. That's the conversation I hold with leaders, and it's the standard for what I build.
Robert has an uncommon ability to apply a systems view to organizational challenges. He helps leaders not only identify immediate leverage points, but also understand the broader patterns at play. His approach is creative, pragmatic, and rooted in a deep commitment to clarity and alignment.
He has a different way of looking at situations based on his vast experience working with executives — there have been no situations I have presented to him that he couldn't help me think through and address.
The methodology we used has provided the structure and accountability I needed to bring some of my weakest leadership qualities up to A+ in just a few months. I highly recommend Robert to anyone in search of a grounded, professional, yet engaging and dynamic guide.
I'm a stand for developing a healthy orientation to the most disruptive force our generation has faced. Monthly facilitated conversations, recorded dialogues, and a growing body of frameworks for leaders who want to engage the Intelligence Age with intention and discernment.
A leadership development organization and 14,000 sq ft community center in downtown Boulder, built in collaboration with philosopher Ken Wilber. We trained facilitators, hosted transformational workshops, ran a holistic health clinic, and drew teachers and practitioners from around the world. 100+ contractors across 25+ cities at peak. People moved to Boulder to train with us.
With Ken Wilber at The Integral Center
Behavioral telehealth for justice-involved teens, built for the cases other programs hand off. We're building an AI-enabled clinical model that automates administration so every dollar goes to the human to human relationship these kids actually need. What was always needed in this space is now finally achievable.
A structured deep dive into the leadership behaviors that are make-or-break for startup founders. One micro-practice per episode, organized across seven leadership pillars. Built on the Saturn Leadership Index, an effective tool for identifying leadership blindspots and growth areas. A rich archive of distinctions tailor-made for the leaders I work with.
🎧 Listen on SpotifyI studied electrical engineering and music — an odd pairing that still describes how I think. Systems and signal. Pattern and noise. What's actually happening beneath what's being said. I've spent 20 years applying that to how people build, lead, and make decisions under real pressure.
I founded The Integral Center, a leadership development organization built in collaboration with philosopher Ken Wilber — 100+ contractors, 25+ cities at its peak. I was a Senior Partner at NeubergGore. I co-founded Antelope Recovery. I've been in rooms where acquisitions were negotiated, co-founder relationships broke, and leaders made decisions they'd carry for the rest of their careers. I'm not advising from the sideline.
My clients include startup founders, executives, investors, post-exit founders, AI engineers, and political leaders. The through-line is high stakes and the self-awareness to know that doing it alone isn't working anymore. Clients who would never sit with a therapist do significant developmental work in our sessions — because the container is leadership, and that earns a different kind of access.
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