For organizations developing real, inspiring, human leadership skills that are transformational. And for hosts looking for a guest who brings lived wisdom with a dash of neuroscience & humour to the topic of embodied emotions and their place in leadership, creativity and career/life satisfaction.
Most managers lead teams without ever being trained to lead people. Gallup finds managers drive roughly 70% of the difference in team engagement — yet only 44% have ever received real training for the role. What BHL builds is felt, not theoretical: an embodied leadership "muscle memory" that shows up for teams as respect, safety, and clarity.
Leaders shape the literal brain chemistry of the people they lead. Environments low in trust flood people with cortisol, which suppresses the oxytocin and serotonin responsible for connection, cooperation, and loyalty — while a "Circle of Safety," built through consistent trust and empathy, lets people direct their energy toward the work and each other instead of political self-preservation.
This isn't a wellness perk — it's applied neuroscience, positioned and delivered as a performance intervention.
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Rob's Biology Before Psychology framework for conferences, leadership summits, onboarding programmes, and organizational events. Available as keynote, workshop-style talk, or facilitated session.
Signature talks available immediately. Full speaker sheet available on request.
Give your leadership team a shared framework for understanding the emotional and physiological drivers of performance, culture, and decision quality. The methodology behind The Human Current, delivered as an interactive organizational diagnostic.
Build genuine emotional skill — awareness, regulation, attunement, flexibility, and embodied presence — across your leadership population. A custom-scoped leadership development engagement for organizations ready to go beyond competency frameworks.
"90% of top performers have high emotional intelligence."
— Travis Bradberry, TalentSmartEQ
Most engagements run several months, from initial diagnostic through embedded practice. Format, depth, and cadence shaped around your organizational context. Discovery call required.
Custom facilitated sessions for leadership teams, HR cohorts, or cross-functional groups. Experiential by design — participants leave with felt, embodied insight rather than slide-deck summaries.
Tailored around your team's specific context, challenges, and development goals. From leadership team off-sites to onboarding cohorts to high-stakes team interventions — the format, depth, and content are shaped around what your people actually need.
Workshops typically run half a day to two days, scoped to your team's context.
"As a leadership coach, one of the main things I help clients explore is the emotional experience — their own, and that of the people they lead. Working with Robert has helped bring these concepts to life for clients. His ability to break down an initial reaction or behaviour to the core human need underneath it is incredible. He understands the experience so well, and guides clients through their own with practical tools that help them succeed."
Employees who rate their culture as good or excellent are nearly 4x less likely to be job-hunting than those who rate it poorly.
— SHRM, 2026 Global Workplace Culture Report
"The human brain itself is a social organ" — Dr. Louis Cozolino, Pepperdine University. Leaders who understand how brains regulate each other lead teams differently than those who don't.
Most leadership training operates on the 5% of human experience that is rational thought. BHL works in the other 95%: the physiological, emotional foundation that determines how we actually think, decide, and lead.
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"The goal isn't more self-awareness for its own sake. It's leaders who are more grounded, more alive, and more themselves — whatever is going on around them."
This is where BHL goes all the way in.
Immersive, high-somatic, experientially rich work — for individuals and organizations ready to move beyond insight and into genuine transformation. Active, physical, emotionally alive. Not a workshop. Not a seminar. Something that stays in the body, the mind and the heart long after the room clears.
Rob's 30+ years of active meditation leadership, somatic facilitation, and embodied practice don't just inform this work. They are this work. There is nothing quite like it in the leadership development space.
A custom-designed 2–3 day immersive for organizational leadership cohorts. Combines The Human Current with strategic visioning, team relational work, and the deepest somatic facilitation Rob offers.
For organizations ready to invest in transformation, not just training.
A custom immersive embodied leadership environment — designed around your culture, your people, and your strategic moment. The kind of work that has never been on your L&D calendar before, because we curate it through the BHL framework.
It is shaped through existing relationships and collaborative conversations to extend the impact of Boldly Human Leadership.
Invite Rob as a guest expert, speaker, or interview guest — bringing active somatic techniques, emotional content work, and live storytelling into your programme, event, or show.
For coaches, facilitators, L&D designers, podcast hosts, and content creators who want to bring something genuinely rare into their work — an embodied EQ specialist who brings the body into conversations that usually stay in the head.
The deliverable scales to fit your context: a set speaking segment, a single experiential session, a recurring module inside an existing programme, or a full body-and-emotion integration experience designed alongside you.
Adaptable as a single session, a recurring module, or a co-designed programme component. In-person is preferred for the deepest work, but Rob has extensive experience delivering content and transformation online. It's the live collaboration and connection that brings out the best in the work.
Podcasters and content creators: Rob is a generous, story-forward guest who brings real energy to interviews — not a list of talking points. Conversations naturally move through 30+ years of theatre, somatic practice, and the neuroscience behind why the body leads where the mind follows.
Open to long-form interviews, panel conversations, and recurring guest segments. Available for audio and video formats.
Rob brings the Biology Before Psychology framework to conferences, leadership summits, corporate events, and organizational gatherings. His talks are not lectures — they are experiences. Audiences leave having felt the methodology, not just heard about it.
Available in English and French. Adaptable from keynote to workshop-style facilitated session depending on your event format and audience needs.
Three signature talks are available immediately. All talks can be adapted for your specific audience and context.
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The flagship talk. Why the body is the primary site of leadership effectiveness — and what changes when leaders start developing it deliberately. Accessible, provocative, and grounded in current neuroscience. Suitable for any leadership audience.
A deep dive into the biology of emotional intelligence — how emotions function as data, how they drive decisions, and how developing fluency in them changes everything about how leaders show up. Particularly powerful for HR and L&D audiences.
Rob's origin story as a leadership framework — what 30 years in professional film and theatre taught him about presence, emotional range, and the human instrument. An unexpected entry point into the BHL methodology, delivered with Rob's characteristic wit and warmth.
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Le travail de Rob ne s'arrête pas à une langue. Que ce soit pour développer le leadership de votre organisation, l'inviter à prendre la parole, ou l'accueillir sur votre balado, il travaille aussi bien en français qu'en anglais — avec la même chaleur, la même rigueur, et la même envie sincère de faire bouger les choses. Contactez-le en français.
Rob's work isn't limited to one language. Whether it's developing your organization's leadership, having him speak, or welcoming him onto your podcast, he works just as well in French as in English — with the same warmth, the same rigor, and the same genuine drive to make things move. Connect with him in French.
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