A Coaching Method
With a 95% Success Rate,
and Undeniable Results
With a 95% Success Rate,
and Undeniable Results
Six to Twelve Months of
1-on-1 Coaching with Robert.
As a Goldsmith-certified coach, he'll walk beside you
until leading this way is second nature.
1-on-1 Coaching with Robert.
As a Goldsmith-certified coach, he'll walk beside you
until leading this way is second nature.
The Process Behind the Shift
A 7-step process, built around the behaviors that matter most.
A Guarantee Almost No One
Else in Coaching Offers
Else in Coaching Offers
On the twelve-month engagement, Robert's fee is tied to your results.
Not his opinion of your progress. Not yours.
The people who watch you lead every day, the ones
who've been asked all along what's moving and what isn't.
who've been asked all along what's moving and what isn't.
If they don't confirm real, measurable change by the end of the year, the guarantee stands.
This is the same pay-for-results model behind the most researched coaching method in the world.
Six months and nine months follow the exact same rigorous process, just on a shorter runway,
without the guarantee attached, because a full year is what real change reliably takes to prove.
without the guarantee attached, because a full year is what real change reliably takes to prove.
Choose Your Depth of Support
Every engagement includes the full process. The difference is how far you go with it.
6 MonthsA Focused Start
✓ Interviews with your stakeholders to find the one behavior worth your focus
✓ A monthly check-in with each stakeholder, so you always know exactly how it's landing
✓ A monthly session with Robert to work through what you're hearing and plan your next move
✓ One stakeholder survey, at month 5, confirming real progress
9 MonthsRoom for the shift to settle in
Everything in the
6-month engagement
6-month engagement
PLUS:
✓ Three more months of guided check-ins with your stakeholders and Robert
✓ A second stakeholder survey, at month 9, showing even more ground gained
12 MonthsRoom for the shift to settle in
Everything in the
9-month engagement
9-month engagement
PLUS:
✓ Three more months to turn the shift into a lasting habit
✓ A final survey at month 12, revealing the full distance you've traveled
THE RESULTS GUARANTEE: If your stakeholders don't confirm real change, it stands
How to Apply
1
Fill Out
the Application
In-depth questions
about your role and the
leadership challenges
you're bringing.
the Application
In-depth questions
about your role and the
leadership challenges
you're bringing.
2
Robert Reviews
It Personally
No algorithms,
no forms, just Robert
making sure it's the
right support for you.
It Personally
No algorithms,
no forms, just Robert
making sure it's the
right support for you.
3
You'll Hear From Robert
Within 48 Hours:
If it's a good match,
Robert will send you a link
for your initial call. That's where
the real conversation starts.
Within 48 Hours:
If it's a good match,
Robert will send you a link
for your initial call. That's where
the real conversation starts.
The Place Setting Framework for Leaders
A way of finding the parts of your leadership that are quietly working against you.
There are seven parts of how you lead.
This framework doesn't teach leadership.
It shows you which part of yours needs attention.
It shows you which part of yours needs attention.
INCLUDED IN THE PRIVATE COACHING
The full framework. 7 elements.
Built to fit into a leader's real week.
Built to fit into a leader's real week.
Here's What's Inside
✓ All seven elements, and in the cohort,
you'll work through them together,
one Play at a time, alongside the group.
you'll work through them together,
one Play at a time, alongside the group.
✓ A diagnostic for every element, so you
always know exactly which Play to run next.
always know exactly which Play to run next.
✓ The complete Play library, yours to keep and return to.
✓ Two short videos per element, one on the shift itself,
one on making it stick, so wherever you focus,
the teaching is fast and specific.
one on making it stick, so wherever you focus,
the teaching is fast and specific.
✓ A FeedForward worksheet, a real stakeholder ask,
and a 30-day tracker for every element.
and a 30-day tracker for every element.
✓ A certificate when you complete the full framework.
Meet Robert
Founder of the Place Setting Framework
Where the framework began…
I spent thirty years building people before I ever coached anyone. From prep cook to president of a division, and every rung in between. Sales teams. People. Years of it, long before I ever sat across from a leader as a coach.
None of that came from a textbook. It came from the table, the one my mother set every day of my childhood while she ran a Greek catering business and cared for aging parents in our home, all at once. She never called it leadership. She called it showing up. That table shaped me more than any role I've held since. I don't think she ever knew she was training a leader.
Today, I'm a Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach and the creator of the Place Setting Framework, seven elements of leadership built from everything I learned sitting at my mother's table. This isn't about teaching leadership. It's about naming the one part of yours that's quietly working against you, and proving the shift through the people who watch you lead every day.
The Record Behind the Framework
- Ranked a Top 10 Executive Leadership Coach by Favikon
- Grew a food distribution division from one employee to 350 in under five years
- Led sales teams with budgets over $300 million
- Took a customer satisfaction score from last in the company to top 15 nationally
- Completed a Harvard-accredited executive leadership program
- Served as executive vice president of member development and training for a national foodservice organization
"Leadership is a table set with seven pieces.
Run one Play at a time, until it's who you are."
Run one Play at a time, until it's who you are."
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