Welcome to Cultivated Management. My name is Rob.

I teach, coach and consult with leaders and managers to envision bright futures for their business - and communicate with clarity and influence to bring this future to life.

"The future belongs to those who can communicate about it"

I help people speak effectively, write clearly, think critically and express their creativity through effective communication.

Effective communication requires diversity, critical thinking, truth, authenticity, clarity, excellent listening, competency and purpose.

Experienced Coach and Consultant, specialising in transforming technology businesses through the pragmatic application of Business Agility methods, strategic problem-solving and communication / storytelling.

My background as a Media Scientist, startup veteran and experienced business leader, led me to the realisation that 99% of business problems (and lack of significant change) stem from ineffective communication.

This insight fuels my passion today. I founded Cultivated Management to empower leaders and managers with the clarity, tools, and mindset to build truly agile, high-performing organisations.

My unique approach is built around "Releasing Business Agility" – a powerful, yet remarkably simple, 5-stage model designed to help you:

1️⃣ Envision a clear future: Paint a compelling picture that provides clarity and inspires action.

2️⃣ Face reality: Understand the current reality with honesty and precision.

3️⃣ Build "teams to get it done": Foster high-performing teams capable of achieving ambitious goals.

4️⃣ Efficient processes: Establish routines and processes that drive results.

5️⃣ Embrace continuous learning: Adapt, create and innovate for sustained success.

Throughout this journey, we weave in clarity, alignment, action, and creativity – essential ingredients for overcoming complexity and accelerating growth.

I translate extensive experience in building high-performing teams, scaling startups, and simplifying complex enterprise environments into practical, actionable strategies delivered through:

➡️ 1:1 Coaching: Guiding leaders to navigate their biggest challenges.

➡️ Award-Winning Workshops: Engaging sessions on communication, creative problem-solving, and culture change.

➡️ Energizing Keynotes & Talks: Inspiring audiences with fresh perspectives.

➡️ Effective Content: Sharing insights through videos, articles, and my books: Zero To Keynote and Workshop Mastery.

What I bring to leaders and managers:

➡️ Strategic Change & Business Transformation: Guiding through significant shifts.

➡️ Leadership Development: Cultivating highly effective and adaptable leaders and managers.

➡️ Organisational Agility: Implementing practical frameworks for rapid response and innovation.

➡️ High-Impact Communication: Mastering storytelling, PR and public speaking.

➡️ Team Performance & Culture: Building cohesive, productive, and resilient teams.

➡️ Futures Thinking: Developing the ability to anticipate, plan for, and create desirable futures.

Experience: Mobile, Telecoms, Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Energy, Software Security, Defence.

Small but mighty

When you work with Cultivated Management, you are working directly with me. I do have a handful of extremely talented, and trusted, consultants who often work with me to help your business, but most consulting and training is delivered by yours truly.

Small but mighty (actually I'm quite tall in height). When I work with you you get all the benefits of working with someone who has done lots of business improvement and change:

  1. Direct access to knowledge, guidance and support from me - with a wealth of experience in business growth, transformation, strategy activation and change.
  2. No "off-the-shelf" frameworks or PowerPoints from the archives.
  3. Responsiveness, care and immaculate attention.
  4. Passion, enthusiasm and engagement and a vested interesting in improving the world of business.
  5. Fun and creative approach to solving problems.

I take the time to understand you, your team, the business, your values, the goals and the flow of value through your business.

In fact, one of my 10 behaviours of effective employees is getting "company smart, right from the start". That's what I do. I don't bring standards. I bring solutions that are based on your business needs.

I bring exceptional solutions to the very problems you face - after all, your organisation is likely "exceptional" too.

Whether via in-depth consultancy, hands-on coaching, or dynamic workshops (like the award-winning communication and behaviour workshops), I've spent over a decade helping leaders across diverse sectors to overcome communication problems - and enhance personal communication behaviours– 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 and managers in Telco, Tech, Mobile, Oil and Gas, Energy, Professional Services, HR and Finance.

Find out more about my services.

Curator and Writer

I share everything I know on this site to help individuals develop and grow their business and communication skills.

My goal is to create an evidence-backed, insightful and accessible learning portal, for people to master the art of communication, creativity and learning 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:

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A photograph of Rob Lambert reading the book The Art of Noticing
Reading "The Art of Noticing"

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
  • Head of internal communications
  • 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
  • International Keynote speaker
  • Coach and trainer
  • Author of several books on leadership, public speaking, workshop teaching, 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 😄