I facilitate transformational shifts that unlock your true purpose and your best self

Bob has helped me unpack the human aspect of business.

“Bob has been an instrumental part of my personal and professional growth. Coaching doesn’t just start and stop with Bob. He has played an active role in large and small career moments of mine.

In the past 13 years, Bob has never missed a call. He has supported my ideas and aspirations. He always challenged me and pushed my thinking. Bob has a unique ability to take a very complex business problem and simplify it. He asks hard questions to truly understand the root cause of the challenge and/or opportunity. In doing so, he has helped me unpack the human aspect of business.

He leads by example and demonstrates the importance of trust-based relationships. He showed me that asking for help was not a sign of weakness but required to achieve outcomes. I learned the importance of authenticity, creativity, and how to work as a team to achieve excellence.

Bob coached me to always do the right thing, even when no one was watching. I’ve changed my thinking on how I define ‘success’ through my coaching with Bob. He taught me not to compare myself to others, but only an earlier version of myself. I’m lucky to have evolved and grown under Bob’s coaching and leadership.

— Anupa Upadhyay
Managing Director, Global Strategy and Consulting Firm
USA

Bob draws on rare blend of deep coaching expertise and practical senior executive experience.

“Bob is an exceptional and wise coach who is able to draw on a rare blend of deep coaching expertise and practical senior executive experience at the highest levels of performance.

During our work together, he created the right balance between providing guidance, frameworks and strategies on the one hand, and asking insightful questions and creating the space to allow me to ‘trip over’ insights and come to my own realisations on the other hand.”

— Frank Chila
General Counsel, Global SaaS Company
Australia

Bob created a safe environment and enabled me to crystalise what I needed to stop, start, or change.

“I have enjoyed working with Bob in his capacity as group executive of Accenture, providing services to a large bank in Australia, as well as a coach during what was a pivotal point in my career.

As part of Accenture’s group executive, Bob provided challenge, commercial innovation, strategic support, and encouragement. Whilst Bob was a challenging adversary in commercial negotiations, he also displayed dedication in building sustainable strategic relationships whilst optimising commercial outcomes for both organisations.

I have also had the absolute pleasure of working with Bob as a coach and in this capacity, I found he considers the whole person, challenges your thinking, and provides a deep understanding of how to manifest insight into your motivations, strengths, and blockers. I found this process critical in identifying what was helping or hindering my ability to achieve my desired goals and objectives. Bob’s ability to create a safe environment of trust and openness enabled me to share my thinking and crystalise my view of what I needed to stop, start, or change.

Bob was so accommodating and always made himself available, despite his own commitments.  The insight and support I received from Bob was fantastic, just what I needed at a time when I needed it, and cannot recommend him more highly.”

— Karen Sutton 
CPO, Banking & Financial Services
Australia

I gained a deeper awareness of the thoughts and actions that prevent me from being the best version of myself.

“Through my time with Bob, I have gained a deeper awareness of the thoughts and actions that prevent me from being the best version of myself. While some learnt behaviours from my childhood have enabled my core strengths, others have caused me to question or doubt myself. Coaching with Bob has enabled me to understand this, and to recognise the signs so I can create more positive outcomes. I have become more accepting of some of the doubts I have and I’ve learnt to make small changes that will diminish their power.

Coaching with Bob commenced at a key point of change in my career and it helped me reconfirm my purpose and objectives. I have continued on my path of self-reflection and I really feel I am beginning to positively change my behaviours, which is improving my ability to reach my full potential.”

— Louisa Francis
Partner Consulting, Big Four Consulting Firm
Australia

Bob helped me bring the best of myself to both professional and personal settings.

“I appreciate Bob’s candid and thoughtful feedback to ideas and solutions, helping me consider other alternatives and possibilities, enabling a better (or best) match for what I am working on.

Bob is adept at wearing various hats, at the appropriate time — moving from my mentor to my coach, helping me bring the best of myself to both professional and personal settings.

Working with Bob, I learned and have applied practical techniques for problem-solving and coping, including the importance of feedback, disclosure, and self-reflection.”

— Randy Wandmacher
Managing Consulting Director, Global Strategy and Consulting Firm

I would highly recommend Bob to help other leaders get to places they thought impossible.

“Through the last 15 years, Bob has had a major impact on my career, promotion to and within Managing Director levels, and bringing the best of myself and teams to serve our clients. Bob has been both a mentor and coach, challenging my thinking and approach to improve client business value, work through difficult situations, and lead with trust.

Developing deep trust has been core to my own leadership style, both in understanding my own views and my expectation of others, and how leading with trust brings more in return. This has been extremely useful in many aspects of business, whether it will be shaping an interest-based deal (and reminding me that people buy from people) to working through a difficult recovery period in an overall client relationship.

His relentless passion and energy have been something I’ve also enjoyed whether it’s from 5 feet away or over 5,000 miles away. He cares deeply about growing talent, understanding one’s strengths, and leaving a place better than when you arrived as the model of stewardship. These are some of the many things I’ve learned directly or indirectly from Bob and would highly recommend him to help other leaders along their journey or to get to places they thought impossible.

— Don Heiliger
Managing Director Global Professional Services Company

I was able to make a very informed decision about my next career move.

“When at a career junction I spent several months working with Bob to help understand more about me and where I would likely be happiest at work. It was an incredibly valuable and introspective experience as I worked out the values, passions, and strengths that I brought to the work environment and unpacked things that were holding me back from reaching my potential.

From this experience, I was able to create a plan for me to be better, make a very informed decision about my next career move, and have a much clearer picture of what I need to focus on to continue to grow.

The entire journey with Bob was fantastic and at all times I felt Bob was genuinely focused on helping guide me to achieve my goals. He was extremely effective in helping me better understand my personality traits, uncovering what provided me with positive energy, pushing me to re-evaluate my own preconceptions, and figuring out how to better manage scenarios that frustrated me. Working with Bob was exactly what I needed, and I would highly recommend him to others.”

— Alistair Quartermain
Strategic Market Maker, Oracle
Australia

His no-nonsense approach and sage guidance, combined with genuine care is a rare combination.

“I’ve known Bob for almost 20 years and had the privilege of working with and for Bob, as well as being coached/mentored. Bob has played an instrumental role in my life — not just my career.

Bob is an inspiring, effective, and brilliant coach full of wisdom. His no-nonsense approach and sage guidance, combined with genuine care is a rare combination. Bob helped shape my path and approach to leadership and learning, as well as inform my appreciation for applied psychology in organisations.

Bob always challenged me to look beyond the surface of a situation or problem and help me find beneficial solutions. I’ve learned to respond better to feedback, be more aware of my own patterns and behaviours, and adjust to be more effective and clearer in my communications. Bob has supported me on numerous occasions through job changes, personal difficulties and as a friend. I cherish my relationship with Bob and look forward to ongoing coaching and guidance.”

— Tracey Hinkle-James
Retired Chief Operating Officer, CHIEF Founding Member and Start-up Advisor
USA

Bob provided me with frameworks to rebuild my belief in myself and my professional experience.

I had been out of the workforce for 12 months due to a series of unforeseen events that impacted all aspects of my life. I had not been in the position that I needed to be interviewed in over 25 years.

I reached out to Bob for guidance. We had first worked together over 20 years prior and I trusted his down-to-earth approach. Bob has a calm, measured and holistic approach to coaching.

Bob provided me with frameworks to rebuild my belief in myself and my professional experience and guided me through the current approaches to executive hiring, including the art of networking today, writing a resume that creates interest, practicing different interview techniques, and most importantly — what not to do.

I set a goal that I would be ready to “test the job market” within 3 months. I am very grateful for Bob’s empathetic approach, impactful guidance, and being able to tap into his expertise and meet our agreed timeline.

— Niche Consulting & Software Energy Executive
Australia

His mentorship was critical to building my confidence as a female leader to advocate for my career progression.

Over the course of 10+ years. Bob guided me through a journey that included developing and expanding trust-based relationships, recognizing and addressing bias and perceptions, discovering interests, uncovering and applying my strengths, and realizing my purpose and passions.

Bob’s unique breadth of personal and career experience made him a relevant coach through the twists and turns of my career and life journey. Coached by Bob, I optimized a diverse global Business Process Services footprint raising team member satisfaction and client delight through the implementation of process excellence, analytics and team member engagement strategies. Bob guided me through the origination and closure of many $100M+ deals across multiple domains, such as R&D, Finance and Procurement, integrating client-centric narratives, interest-based negotiations, and commercial deal shaping. His coaching aided me in the development of mid-level through C-Suite trusted relationships within my client’s organisations and in my own company.

Most importantly, Bob mentored me through the integration of my expanding family into my ongoing career progression. As the parent working outside of the home for 3 children, his mentorship was critical to building my confidence as a female leader to advocate for my ongoing career progression, where others might have expected me to step back.

My experiences and learnings from working with Bob remain key to my ongoing personal and career development. They have powered my progress and the progress of those who work for and with me. I am grateful that our journeys aligned.

— Marie Surrette
Managing Director, Global Professional Services
USA

Bob’s coaching opened my eyes to who I want to be.

“Bob is the single most influential leader and coach that I have ever worked with in my 30+ year career. When we first met, I was a solid delivery leader but was very rough around the edges in terms of engaging and communicating with senior client leaders. Bob had a unique ability to recognize what I brought to the table along with my areas for development. More important, Bob spent his personal time getting to know me as a person and quickly found ways to motivate me so that I remained 100% engaged in the success of our client.

Bob is an iconic leader to so many of us because of his coaching in areas like the trust equation, working in the clients’ interest while avoiding anything that might come off as self-interested, living by a personal credo that documents what you stand for, and the power of remaining unconditionally positive. These concepts have opened my eyes to who I want to be and are now at the foundation of who I am as a leader and person.

I can honestly say that I would never have reached the level of becoming a Global Client Account Lead for a Platinum level client without Bob as my mentor and coach. I will forever be grateful for Bob’s influence and will continue to look to him for advice in moments of need. Bob has made me a better husband, father, leader, and human.”

— Tom Papa
Managing Director, Global Professional Services Company
USA

He helped me build stronger self-awareness, confidence, and focus with both my work and my family life.

“I have been fortunate to have Bob as a coach. Bob is always 100% present when we work together.

He draws upon real-life experiences and has an accommodating style that is both nurturing and challenging. Bob brings great natural wisdom that helps tease out what is important. He facilitates rather than tells and has an excellent toolkit introducing the right tool at the right point in the process. Bob is not at all formulaic and we also have a good laugh along the way.

He has helped me build stronger self-awareness, confidence, and focus with both my work and my family life.

— Stephen Klineberg
Director, Medical Devices Industry
Australia

The relationship between the client and our firm became legendary.

“I met Bob after almost 30 years of leadership in my professional career. What a gift he was to me personally, to my team and to my clients.

Bob completely changed how we looked at situations and enhanced my/our ability to develop and deepen trust-based relationships within our team and across the global client base we served. Our client relationship became one of the premier relationships across our entire Client Industry Group. More importantly, the relationship between the client and our firm became legendary.

Bob can take extremely complex situations and break them into the most impactful, important, and meaningful elements. Bob is the best that I have ever worked with, and I continue to enjoy the benefits of his advice and counsel to this very day.”

— Paul Rudolph
Private Advisor to Fortune 200 Companies
USA

Bob guided us through a challenging 6-hour conversation with exquisite emotional competence.

“Bob is a uniquely talented coach, offering his clients psychology-based insights with compassion and wisdom.

I have had the good fortune to know Bob for several years, and recently engaged him to help a close friend and me navigate a complex situation within our friendship, which for all our sincerest efforts we could not resolve on our own.

With both my friend and I present, Bob guided us through a challenging 6-hour conversation with exquisite emotional competence. Bob ensured both my friend and I were able to express our opinions and perspectives freely, so no sentiment was repressed or denied, but then ultimately brought us back to what is of utmost importance: our long-standing bond, which is precious and which we so value.

It is a rare person indeed who can help others navigate their challenges with the kind of patience and emotional stamina that Bob displays. You can feel that he wants your best outcome, and he is unrelenting in his commitment to achieve this. Whether you are exploring aspects of yourself or your relationships with others, in your personal or professional life, I guarantee that Bob Easton is the coach who can help elevate you to be all that you can be.”

— Dr Liz Goldenberg
Executive Director, The Flourishing World Programme
Australia

Executives who seek to play at the top of their game will benefit from Bob as their coach.

“Any executive would benefit from Bob as a business coach because he has played “the game” at the highest level with extraordinary success. Just as elite athletes work with a coach their whole career, executives who seek to play at the top of their game will benefit from Bob as their coach.

His unique background combining military discipline, training as a psychologist, leadership as head of Accenture in Australia and New Zealand, and a terrific sense of empathy and humor, will help corporate leaders improve, change and/or completely transform how they manage and operate their enterprises.”

— Senior executive, Big Four Consulting Firm
USA