Robert is a masterful public speaker whose presence and presentation create a profound learning environment in which people awaken to his message while at the same time connecting to their own natural resources of wisdom, passion, and power. His distinctive style of public speaking is a spontaneous weaving together of many elements — including lecture, dialogue, silence, application exercises, and participant sharing — which results in a deeply transformational experience for the audience.

Robert’s public speaking events are exciting and entertaining, an explosion of energy and clarity colliding with humor and silence — presented with authenticity, vulnerability, and deep connection.

Even as he shares his colorful experiences and profound insights, Robert’s talks are less about information than inspiration, less a prescription than an adventure in self-discovery, less about external models than inner experience, less about expert advice than the audience’s own inner knowing.

Robert would be delighted to consider custom creating a talk about a topic of interest to you. Below are some of the themes he’s been writing and speaking about for years.

> Authentic Leadership
In RealTime Speaking, we define leadership in terms of authentic speaking and personal credibility. Authentic leaders are less concerned with what and how, but with who and where: who are we and where do we speak and act from? The quality of an authentic leader's conversation creates their credibility. Authentic leaders use the power of RealTime Speaking and the credibility of open, hones, transparent communication to inspire the people with whom they work. This talk is a provocative exploration of how authentic leaders speak.

> Igniting the Soul at Work
We all want to enhance our experience of work and enrich our work environments with greater meaning, purpose, joy, and deep human connection. We want our work to be a place of inspiration, where we can find full creative outlet for our deepest values and highest vision. How do we bring our full spirit to work, and how do we manage challenges and stresses from time management to dictatorial managers? This talk will focus on issues faced by all people in the workplace — whether as a sole provider or working within a small business or large corporation.

> RealTime Speaking
RealTime Speaking is a profound way of speaking with authenticity — and with credibility, confidence, and connection. In this thought-provoking, fun, and interactive talk, Robert reviews the philosophy and main principles of RealTime Speaking, with themes including: self-generated safety, confidence is a choice, the magic of authentic connection, the power of silence. Audience members are invited to participate in role-playing scenarios and exercises. Participants take away positive attitudes and practical behavioral skills, which make them more confident and credible speakers in only one hour! RealTime Speaking is an ideal topic for business and association conferences and meetings.

> Authentic Self-Expression
We all have a true voice within us, a fiery fearless voice that tells us how to live fully and authentically. Finding our true voice and choosing to speak with that voice brings us to a state of grace. But there are other voices, both external and internal, which compete for our attention, ones that cause us to doubt ourselves and to distrust our own truth, our own thoughts and feelings. We may let these voices censor our heart and suppress our speaking, dimming our light and our lives. If you are tired of living with expressive taboos, tired of living at the effect of self-victimizing habits, tired of being bullied by the past and if you want to begin to speak with full passion and power, then come along to one of these furnace-rooms of authenticity and truthful speaking!

> It's the Caring that Counts
Business is a delivery device for customer delight! If you want to brand your business with success, then dare to delight your customers — it’s the caring that counts! Customer delight means to treat customers and colleagues as human beings, with respect and honor, caring and appreciation, empathy and understanding. Customer delight creates an irresistible competitive edge in your industry, fosters a values-based organizational culture, generates magnetic good-will and word-of-mouth publicity from your customers, and inspires employees and managers alike to care as a cornerstone of the culture. Customer delight is a fun, lively, interactive program based on five simple principles.

> Meaning and Motivation
People want meaning and satisfaction. Organizations want performance and productivity. The meeting place of these two seemingly disparate desires is neither far-away nor magical. The intersection of fulfillment for people and organizations is quite simply in an alignment of their respective values. Values are an expression of what we hold as important, significant, and meaningful. When we know what our values are, and what attitudes and behaviors best express them, we are able to act with focus, purpose, and energy. Without a clear understanding of our values and their corresponding attitudes and behaviors, we are like lost ships in a desperate sea: drifting without hope, working without passion, living without enthusiasm.

> Work Life Balance
It seems as if no one has enough time to do everything they want to do, even — and especially — the really important things that connect them to loved ones, their purpose and passions, and their spiritual and artistic pursuits. It seems we are always one step behind the life we truly want to live. How do we get things under control and experience more of the elusive balance? Is “finding more time” through time management the best strategy to accomplish our well-intentioned to do lists, or are we looking at our lives in the wrong way to begin with? What is a balanced life? How do we make Time our servant instead of our master? This talk will provide some startling re-frames of the traditional conversation about work life balance, and practical suggestions on how to make peace with Time so we can life a fulfilling and creative life.

> Magical Living
Our living often swings between two seemingly opposite poles of experience: on the one side is an experience of isolation, anxiety, confusion, fear; and on the other side is the experience of unity, clarity, joy, enthusiasm, and energy. Beyond both is magical living, pointed to by such signs as serendipity, synchronicity, transcendence, grace, intuition. In all these cases, the words betray something bigger than our rational minds can comprehend. Don’t reach to get, open to receive. This is the mysterious entre to magical living.

> Natural Meditation
In its truest sense, meditation is not a practice but a way of being. In order to know meditation — not as a practice but as a way of being and of living — we have to investigate the nature of our own mind, and we have to experience the silence beyond the mind. From this place of authentic being, we are able to think, speak, and act from an awareness which includes our thoughts and emotions, but is not defined by them. Natural meditation means to experience our connection to Life itself, to live with an open heart, a clear mind, and present-centered attention. From this place of authentic being, we are able to embody wisdom, love, and peace in all areas of life, all the time. This talk will focus on how to experience natural meditation in life and at work.

> Activism
Our times require vigorous participation in political life — political meaning "the total complex of relations between people living in society." From cradle to grave, we exist in relationship. How are we to live in these relationships? How engaged are we in the events of the day? What is our civic responsibility to our community, country, and the world? How much responsibility do we take for the condition of the world? We affect our world with two complimentary action strategies: direct and meditative. Direct action throws water on a threatening fire, pulls a child out of harm's way, writes letters to the editor, and participates in the electoral process. Meditative action cultivates intimacy, empathy and clear seeing; and sends constant prayers of blessing and loving-kindness from one's heart to all beings. Spiritual activists engage in both strategies with equal skill and enthusiasm. For these strategies to be effective, for these strategies to have traction and healing effect in our world, we must be and embody the highest expression of our common humanity.

> The Examined Life
From time to time an inner experience or outer event prompts us to examine our life, to question who we are, what we are doing, and how we are doing it. We are called to a deeper understanding of our identity and purpose, of our true calling or path. We begin to question everything and become open to new realities, new possibilities. In these moments of truth, we may think we've been but sleepwalking through our days, living at the effect of others, of someone else's beliefs and dreams. Where is our authentic self and life? What is it? How do we become fully awake and alive in our own life, feeling the passion, pull, and power of our own extraordinary existence?