Robert is an international keynote speaker, an award-winning entrepreneur, and a principled angel investor.  He delivers high-energy presentations that inspire audiences to leverage their unique talents, hone their focus, and make massive shifts toward more rewarding relationships with work and life.

As an experienced speaker, Robert brings unique perspectives from his over 20 years of business experience, a decade in the startup world, and expertise across executive leadership, marketing, strategy, sales, and operations.  His own journey to success has been fueled by a deep passion for empowering people.  Today, he works with leading companies and industry groups to help their teams navigate and thrive in a modern world and workplace where stress, distractions, and constant change have become the norm.

Audiences love the real world examples, practical takeaways, and applicable insights they get from Robert's presentations.  And meeting planners love his collaborative style, efficient planning, and unique energy.

Robert is a two-time 40 Under 40 awardee, voted 10 Most Inspiring CMOs 2021, and his companies have been listed in TIME's Best Inventions 2022 and Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2022. 

Robert's Signature Talks:

"Your Most Valuable Resource"

Harness the power of your attention to achieve your wildest dreams

Whether conquering their to-do list or achieving ambitious goals, individuals and organizations crave solutions that maximize their daily impact.  But the ways we typically go about trying to get results don’t align with the actions required to achieve them — and they’re often misaligned with the value of the internal and external resources we have at our disposal.  Most of us believe that time is our most valuable resource.  Robert’s belief is that it’s our ATTENTION that is most valuable, and certainly more valuable than time.  Think about it: how often have you tried optimizing your time to be more productive and to engage in more fulfilling activities, only to find that you’re distracted again and again by interactions that aren’t meaningful, social media apps that suck your life away, and an endless jumping between tasks that burns out your batteries?

What if there was a way to get better results, make work more fulfilling, and create more meaning through your daily activities? There is!

Your audience will learn simple and straightforward strategies that they can use to:
• Create a vision for the results they truly want, and then build an action plan around that vision
• Implement smarter strategies for reducing distraction and cultivating focused productivity
• Develop a mindset shift that guarantees a better relationship with work
• Get more satisfaction from the work they do
• Feel more motivated on a daily basis

"Own Your Potential: Unleash the Startup Mindset Within"

Engage your inner entrepreneur to launch the next phase of your life

Life's too short to settle for "almost."  While a lot of people can get glimpses of their dream life or their dream career, so many of us feel like we’re not fully living that dream every day.  We can often experience a lingering feeling of incompleteness — that something’s missing, but we don’t know what it is or how to find it.  Let's empower you to design a life that makes your heart sing, not sigh.

Robert’s experience as a serial entrepreneur has given him deep insights into the ways startups are built and how they operate, which hold relevant and powerful lessons for how we design our own lives and careers.  Audience members will be inspired to implement in their own lives many of the strategies that new business ventures are required to rely on in order to survive and scale:  Be scrappy.  Do a lot with a little.  Tell the right story.  Find your whitespace and competitive advantage.  Invest in the area of greatest potential.  Fail fast and break things.  “No” as a power word and not a dirty word.  Hiring right. 

Your audience will receive countless takeaways and insights, that will help them to:
• Challenge the mental models and deeply held beliefs that have caused them to live areas of their lives on autopilot
• Craft a vision that will lead them to success, and a roadmap that will help them act on that vision
• Step into the role of CEO of their own lives and careers, building satisfaction from responsibility and accountability
• Cultivate an arena for play that will allow life to be more fun, rewarding, and exciting
• Ignite a level of personal growth that will set them on a trajectory toward more fulfillment