February 8, 2014.   Moraga, CA.   St. Mary’s College.  A one day class for the Professional MBA Students. Your business deserves your best thinking about the challenges and opportunities at hand.  Yet too often, we rush headlong into an opportunity or a new year with a flurry of tweets, texts, e-mails and white-board scrawling—and underachieve or fail.  If you want to build and lead a healthy sustainable business, and if you value your time, energy and your investor’s money, come to this interactive session.

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The Alliance of Chief Executives is an active community of business leaders that focuses on deep strategic exchanges and on challenging existing assumptions. Through private, high-level, confidential groups, Alliance members share unique insights, perspectives and experiences that lead to breakthrough ideas and competitive advantage.

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Palo Alto, CA.   February 28, 2013.   California Israel Chamber of Commerce.  You’re invited to a roundtable discussion with your fellow CEOs about how to work better with your board of directors.  Boards are one of the most common sources of frustration for many CEOs.

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Oakland, CA.  October 25, 2012.  The Alliance of CEOs RoundTable.

There is a lot of competition out there, trying to eat your lunch.  What are you doing to eat their lunch instead?  Going for the win-win is admirable, and simply running your “best race” can work, but often it’s a more of a chess game.

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Oakland, CA.   April 22-24, 2013.   Northern California Human Resources Association and Society for Human Resource Management National Conference.  The line between performance reviews and business performance is blurred at the highest levels in a corporation.

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San Jose, CA.   November 14, 2012.  The Alliance of CEOs.

Ten Alliance member companies have made the San Francisco Business Times list of fastest-growing Bay Area companies, and quite a few more made the San Jose Business Journal’s fastest-growing list as well.

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San Francisco, CA.   November 8, 2012.   Northern California Human Resources Association.

Every CEO dreams of a top management team with a shared vision that solves challenges in unison. Yet many C-suite leaders seem to care more about their own function than the company as a whole. HR leaders can play a crucial role in delivering a highly effective top team. But doing so takes a very different approach than to what many are accustomed.

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San Jose, CA. Nov 6, 2012. Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

Robert has been retained by the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal to present on this critical topic. This two hour morning event will be full of examples, and participants will walk away with specific, actionable ideas that will make for a more lucrative exit.

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Oakland, CA.  August 30, 2012.  The Alliance of CEOs RoundTable.

Too many companies are stuck on a plateau.  They have hopes to grow into a much larger company – maybe double the size or more—but year after year they’re not.  It’s frustrating!  At this event, Robert presented some key tools for doing strategic thinking that can set the table for bigger changes that create bigger sales.

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San Francisco, CA.  July 26, 2012.  The Alliance of CEOs RoundTable.  Keeping your team in a healthy state of dissatisfaction is an underlying element of any high-performance work environment.

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