Previous Experience

Rob brings over 23 years' experience to Gartner and has held senior IT leadership positions in large multinationals in the Financial and Tech industries. He's most recently held Director positions at Dell & EMC focusing on Leadership Development, Talent Management, Strategy, IT Transformation, Business Operations, and successfully built & lead several PMO iterations over the last number of years. He's held a voluntary Communications Director role for the PMI Ireland Chapter. In parallel, he's been coaching leaders & high performing teams for the last decade. He's lectured on Emotional Intelligence for Leaders at the Irish Management Institute and has a passion for helping individuals and teams get clear on their purpose and then create a plan and actions to achieve it. Rob is hugely passionate about and committed to helping others improve and grow and created a self-improvement platform and podcast focused on this, called 1% Better, in 2017. To date, he's interviewed 100's of leaders from all professions, sharing their inspirational stories to help others learn, take action and improve.

Professional Background

• Capmark , Infrastructure Manager, 7 years
• Dell, Director for PMO & Leadership Development, 3 years
• EMC, Director of PMO, Strategy, Business Operations, 8 years

Education

• BSc in Information Technology with NUI, Galway.
• Diploma in Data Business with IMI/UCC.
• Rob holds PMP with PMI, is a qualified ITILv3 Expert.
• Rob is a qualified Executive Coaching and holds an ACC with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

Industry Awards/Accolades

• ACC ICF (Coaching)
• PMP (Project Management)