Welcome!
I'm Rob Lambert, an experienced leader and Management, Change & Business Improvement Consultant/Coach, obsessed with transforming chaos into clarity and high-impact results.
I share what I know through books, courses and content on this site too!
My core belief is that 99% of business challenges stem from ineffective communication.
My background as a Media Scientist, startup veteran and experienced business leader, led me to the realisation that nearly every business challenge stems from ineffective communication and a lack of creative thinking.
That's why I founded Cultivated Management (in 2017) to leverage my unique blend of media science, corporate leadership (from VP of HR to VP of Software Engineering), and communication expertise.
At Cultivated Management, we don’t wait to discover the future; we help you create it.
I specialise in identifying and solving your real business problems, helping you influence, inspire, and drive action, even when communication issues aren't obvious.
I use my proven 'Releasing Business Agility' approach:
- Envisioning and communicating a brighter future
- Truly understanding what's stopping you from achieving it
- Building the right team to get it done
- Fostering effective habits & behaviours (culture)
- Building a true learning company
The outcome of this is moving smoothly and quickly towards your business goals AND cultivating an enriching workplace for everyone in the business.
Whether via in-depth consultancy, hands-on coaching, or dynamic workshops (like my award-winning communication and behaviour workshops), I've spent over a decade helping leaders across diverse sectors to Release Business Agility – from enterprises looking to move smoothly and quickly, to scaling startups looking to professionalise their business without losing their dynamic culture.
I've helped leaders in Telco, Tech, Mobile, Oil and Gas, Energy, Professional Services, HR and Finance.
I focus on critical areas to empower your organisation:
- Strategic Clarity: Crafting and communicating a vivid future state and the robust plan to achieve it.
- Internal Engagement: Winning hearts and minds through compelling communication and effective internal PR.
- Visual Storytelling: Helping your people 'see' the big picture and understand the detail.
- Human Connection: Strengthening relationships, unleashing collective creativity, and fostering critical thinking for better solutions.
- Action Through Narrative: Inspiring innovation and moving people into motion with compelling stories.
- Continuous Learning: Building a culture where growth and improvement are constant.
Find out more about our services.
Curator and Writer
I share everything I know on this site to help individuals develop and grow their business and communication skills.
I cover the topics of communication, creativity, wellbeing and learning through various mediums.
The Meeting Notes newsletter. Books and resources in the Store. Articles on this site.
My Mission is to create an evidence-backed, insightful and accessible learning portal, for people to master the art of communication in the workplace.
Teacher
Teaching has been at the heart of all of my career. Isn't that what a leader should do - teach others?
The award-winning Communication Skills workshop is available online now.
My books Workshop Mastery, Zero to Keynote, Take a Day Off and more are in the store.
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
My CV
Here is my CV:
About Rob
- Built a “frighteningly agile” team named “UK top start-ups to watch”.
- Built a team voted “Best companies to work for 3 years running”.
- Experienced the "start-up to sale" journey first hand
- Vice President of HR
- Vice President of Software Engineering (twice)
- Vice President of Agility
- Interim CIO
- My HR Team was described as the ”least evil HR team ever” (A compliment I believe)
- CIPD Level 5 HR practitioner (no longer a paid member of CIPD)
- Blogger, podcaster, keynote presenter, writer
- Former newspaper editor and journalist
- Coach and trainer
- Author of several books on leadership, career management, management, agile and squirrels
- Husband and Father to three boys
- Media Scientist obsessed with mixed media storytelling – and fast cars
Values.
Creativity – creativity is a core value. We like to create, bring together seemingly disparate ideas and come up with new potential futures. If your company is exceptional, then creativity is essential to stand out. Why copy when you can create? If your company is exceptional, then you should be an exception...
Humour and Playfulness – tied to the above – there’s fun to be had. After all, if we’re not having fun with it – we should be done with it. Better futures rarely manifest without energy, joy and engagement
Appreciation of Excellence – there is excellence all around. We often just need to learn to see it – and then appreciate it. Or create it.
Do no Harm – the advice and support provided through Cultivated Management should lead to no harm if you implement it. There’s some shady advice out there from people who are simply spouting theory – our advice is grounded in evidence.
Critical Thinking – We don't take theories and platitudes on face value. We apply a critical eye to get to the heart and essence of the problem, so the solutions work.
Inclusivity – Rob is HR qualified and spent years as a VP in HR, he therefore blend a bias for action with a bias to cultivate great workplaces. Our work should also be accessible and relevant to a diverse audience.
Curiosity – at the heart of all we do is curiosity. Is there a better way to do something? How does this thing work? How can we get better? What futures are more interesting? Curiosity ripples through all that we share and do.
Accuracy – We show you how we do our work, how we come to conclusions, how we research and how we form the ideas we share. We use data where data exists. We aim to be accurate in all that we share.
Cultivated Charity
We believe ALL organisations exist to serve the greater purpose of society. Cultivated Management is no different.
Each year we donate 5% of all profit from products and affiliate links to charity.
2.5% always goes to Naomi House – a hospice in Winchester for life-limited children and their parents.
The other 2.5% goes to a different charity each year.
- 2015 – Unicef (complete)
- 2016 – Pencils of Promise (complete)
- 2017 – Saving Linnea (complete)
- 2018 – WWF (complete)
- 2019 – Naomi House (complete) – Full 5% this year.
- 2020 – British Heart Foundation (complete)
- 2021 – Shelter Box (complete)
- 2022 – Naomi House (complete)
- 2023 – Become and Naomi House
- 2024 - Finalising
Thank you for reading this far 😄