Energising Talks & Keynotes

Energising Talks & Keynotes

Bring insights, ideas, and stories to your team—and leave them energised, clearer, and ready to act.

For more than 20 years, I’ve delivered keynotes and company events that combine storytelling, humour, and practical systems thinking.
Every session is designed to spark new thinking, create shared language, and help people see their work more clearly.

Many talks draw on the Idea → Value philosophy: helping people understand how ideas, decisions, communication, and action combine to create real outcomes.

The goal isn’t applause. Although that's always nice.
It’s clarity, energy, and progress.

What to Expect

• Story-driven talks that capture attention without theatre
• Practical insights people can apply immediately
• A blend of humour, creativity, and substance
• Tailored relevance to your strategy, culture, and audience
• Optional Q&A or follow-up workshops for deeper impact

Signature Keynotes & Talks

The 10 Behaviours of Effective Employees

What motorcycle clubs and medieval marketplaces teach us about modern teams

Every culture runs on behaviours
— not org charts.

This keynote explores the ten everyday behaviours that quietly separate effective teams from those slowed by friction, ambiguity, and missed expectations.

Through stories from unexpected places (including a biker chief with a surprising take on trust), participants learn why reliability is a superpower, why communication beats cleverness, and how explicit expectations transform teams.

Ideal for: organisations seeking accountability, trust, and momentum.

How to Thrive in Your Career

Energy, learning, and creative resilience

Thriving at work has less to do with luck and more to do with managing energy, learning deliberately, and shaping your narrative.

Drawing on psychology, creativity, and personal stories, this talk explores reinvention as a skill
—not a crisis.

Participants leave with a mindset and toolkit for navigating careers with clarity and resilience.

Talk About Value (And Why It’s Not Just Financial)

The hidden costs of poor communication

Most organisations lose value long before anything reaches a customer.
This talk reveals the hidden cost of misalignment and unclear expectations
—using the infamous Gantt Chart of Devastation to show why work feels slower and more stressful than it should.

Ideal for: leaders who want to reduce friction and accelerate delivery.

How to Climb Your Career Ladder

The Impact Ladder: Contributor → Leader → Creator → Amplifier

Promotions aren’t mysterious
—they’re systemic.

This talk demystifies career progression and shows how communication, learning, and alignment compound into momentum.

Participants leave with a practical, human playbook for shaping careers on purpose.

Idea → Value: How Modern Organisations Really Create Results

The flagship keynote

Most organisations believe value is created internally. It isn’t — financial value only appears when something meets a customer willing to pay for it.

This keynote reframes work around clarity, communication, and the messy middle between idea and value.

Audience takeaways:

• Why clarity beats speed
• How to visualise the messy middle
• How misalignment emerges—and how to fix it
• Systems to reduce friction and improve flow
• Why value is always external

Ideal for: leadership events, strategy offsites, product teams.

Creativity Is a Climate Issue

Why environments
—not people
—kill ideas

Creativity isn’t a personality trait; it’s a climate problem.
This talk explores how pressure, trust, time, and constraints shape creative output — and how leaders can design climates where good thinking survives.

Participants leave with language and levers for improving creativity without burnout.

Custom Sessions

I also design bespoke talks and seminars tailored to your themes or events
—from company kick-offs to leadership off sites.

Start with a conversation: info@cultivatedmanagement.com

Audience Feedback

“Rob’s energy, expertise, and amiable presenting style were a big hit—we left with new skills, insights, and practical knowledge.”
— Scott Summers, Director, nFocus

“The whole business was buzzing after the session.”
— CIO, Energy Sector

“Practical, engaging, and genuinely inspiring.”
— Event Attendee, Technology Conference

Speaker Bio (Short, Medium and Long)

SHORT SPEAKER BIO

Rob Lambert is a writer, consultant, teacher and speaker who helps leaders and teams reduce the hidden cost between idea and value. Drawing on experience as a former VP of Engineering and VP of HR, he brings clarity, communication, and creativity together to help people work with less friction, and go from idea to value smoothly, effectively — and with more meaning.

MEDIUM SPEAKER BIO (≈120 words)

Rob Lambert is a writer, consultant, teacher and speaker who helps organisations reduce the hidden cost between idea and value — the friction that shows up as misalignment, rework, confusion and stalled momentum.

He began his career in journalism and media science before moving into software, engineering leadership, and eventually senior roles as VP of Engineering and VP of HR. Along the way, he noticed a pattern: most teams don’t struggle because they lack skill or effort, but because clarity breaks down as work moves from idea to value.

Through his work at Cultivated, Rob helps leaders create clarity, improve communication, and design human systems of work that allow creativity and value to flow. His talks are known for being warm, practical, and quietly powerful — full of stories and tools people can use immediately.

FULL SPEAKER BIO (≈250 words)

Rob Lambert is a writer, speaker, and creator who helps people and organisations reduce the hidden cost between idea and value — the friction that quietly drains energy, slows progress, and causes good ideas to stall.

His career spans journalism, media science, software, engineering leadership, and HR. After transitioning into the tech industry, Rob rose from software tester to VP of Engineering and later VP of HR, helping scale a high-growth startup through complexity and change.

What he discovered along the way was consistent: most teams don’t struggle because they lack talent, ambition, or ideas. They struggle because communication frays, context gets lost, decisions slow down, and no one is quite sure where value is meant to land. The problem isn’t effort — it’s clarity.

Rob built his body of work to address this gap. His frameworks — including Idea → Value, the Impact Ladder, Communication Superpower, and the 10 Behaviours — help leaders see work as a flow of ideas, investments, and actions, and design systems that support people rather than exhaust them.

Today, through Cultivated, Rob works with leaders to improve clarity, communication, and creative problem-solving inside organisations. Through Creative Soul Projects, he explores the stories, philosophy, and creative process behind meaningful work.

Rob’s talks are story-driven, practical, and quietly humorous. Audiences leave with clearer language, renewed energy, and tools they can apply the same day.